, 1862-01-25
FROM TIE 4Tu ILLINOIS; COL. ENOBLES
DORIS.
4 Statement Of its Condition-Ns Marches and
lrieations-ZAe Cs1mps al -Rolla-lVo Win&ex
Quc7ftrs nor WinteT Hospitsls.

CAMP NEAR RoLLA, no, Jan. FL 1867
On the 10th day Of November, 1851, the third
division Of the Western army arrived III this
camp-worn down by long march, and many
1aboriDg under the influence Of disease. We
had hoped we would find some comfortable
quarters where VIC might rest for while and
recruit our strength. From that time until
now We have been kept here in our tents,
much Of the time without any means Of warm
ing our tents, and derived the smallest privi-
1ege Of trying to better our condition by any
improvements which VIC might make. Off
GERS asked the privilege Of building winter
quarters, but were told that they could
not, from the fact that We might be
called upon at any hour to march.
Here VIC have lived, or rather stayed, while
our comrades we're dying around us every day.
Surgeons were not allowed for most OF the
time to attempt to build comfortable hospi-
tals In which our sick might have at least
possible chance Of recovering.
We have lost between forty and fifty men
in the last two months, and hare sometimes
followed to the graveyard US many IS three at
one time. Why We were thus treated is what
re should like to know.
In good faith did We leave our homes to
serve our country, and if these men had fallen
bl LIZ AN1A VI bt%il1% IL hQutA Aoh AltfC QCLA
60 bad. But to see them slain by disease, and
no efforts allowed to be put forth to save
them and make them comfortable during the
bad weather, is heart sIckenIng, and discouE-
| oeing to our men; They ehafc under such
| Treatment and ask for something to be done.
! We can now report nearly two hundred and
| tif sick, and We could not send out now over
four hundred men fit for service in the field
| In the way Of clothing, we have been well pro-
Fidcd for Gov. Yates has sent us during this
| Ia al
shirts, 1000 pairs good lined pants, and 1000
| pairs mittcnE, for which We feel to him truly
grateful. In the way Of clothing, we are well
provided for; but why art We left here in this
! las it appears to us} sickly hole to waste and
die away and do no good:
MATTERS AT ST. JOSEPH, no.
Effect Of Steesh sy7aoatties es-Hilita'y movements
| -Rumors.
/ ST. JOSEPH, No., Jan. Il, 1861
This town, which two years ago contained
more than thirteen thousand inhabitants, nov,
exclusive Of soldiers, docs not exceed four o.
five thousand. Many business houses, which
formerly received from hftS to one hundred
dollars daily, arc now vacant, and rapidly
going to ruin. Instead OF three daily
and one weekly paper Of respectable
eize and appearance, VIC have on<
little, puny, sick1y looking sheet, poorly edit
cd, and scarcely able to prolong lingering
existence. Blue army coats and soldiers an
by far the most numerous moving object:
which meet the eye. Of the latter, there arr
now stationed here the universally detcsted
Sixteenth Illinois, commanded BY the inbecile
Col. Smith; the Illinois Eiffieth, and the go.
called Twenty Fifth Missouri Regiment; also
about squadron Of cavalry, under
command Of Major Berry, together will
some State troops, their number to me
unknown. The Illinois Forty Second left herr
few days ago for Dixie by the way Of Cairo,
and rumor says the Fiftieth will follow them
this week. She also reports that huge pile
Of charges are already on file against Col
| Smith at the branch 6 circumlocution Office
{the Brigade headquarters at Paln1yrn-
If I have q right understanding o.
that condition which constitutes wha1
is termed society, this community i
as far removed from 1t as can well
be conceived. The whole mass Of popu
1ation is disintegrated, every man has become
so indiyidua1ized that he can scarcely be said
to have any sympathy or affinity for any other
| Re suspects and witches every one, and knows
that every one watches him; in the n1idsl
even Of multitude he Is solitary. 4 sort o
apathy patalyzes every business energy and c1
c1udes the thought of enterprise from tht
mind.
The foregoing are a few circumstance;
cha1geable to the rebellion.