Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-05-02

! up again In line OF battle; then forward
n half mile. We halted in a ruin
three regiments Of US, ours in the center.
Along came the General. sFix bay
onets, boys. You've got battery up
there to take" That sounded like
close work, but few moments after
there came on US storm of canister
from our own battery, of course not in
tended for us. Another shower from
the secesh battery, and volley from
their infantry. It was most too much
to stand The 4th Iowa on our left.
and our left wing, broke and ran in all
directions; but Co. II stood till the
General ordered retreat, and then
marched off in good order, the last to
leave the field.
Those troops that ran were b1dly cut
to pieces; those that stood firm, lost bur
few. This ended our lighting. Other
regiments drove them from their posi-
ton, and they retreated. We returned
to camp to find nothing but tents and
empty knapsaoks; everything carried off
by the Secesh.
Before the Secesh came up, confess
L felt sort of curious, but | was, as far as
| could judge, calm and collected after
the firing commenced. One feels more
CALM and full of courage when he knows
his cause is right, and when, like Paul,
he can say: "To die is gain"
Don't feel too uneasy about me- Only
about one twentieth of the force, hardly
that, was much injured, and SO it will be
next time. Still, may be one to 60. |
If so, believe all is we'll; but l wang !
your prayers, nevertheless. [ think |,
am cured of all military am bition. Yet
L would do now as before If think |
my country needs my services so much
as to make it a duty in me to go, l
shall go; not otherwise.
A field Of battle is terrible sight.
Three thousand men lying dead, man
5ied and torn in every conceivable way,
S sight do not wish again to see
Then the tens of thousands of wounded
n the hospitals, cared for as we'll as cir
will admit, but such care as
you at home would think awful; all this
makes life so cheap it is perfectly awful.
It does not make man more tender
learted to roll so Secesh into one hole,
'lled on top Of one another and lightly
overed with earth. All this l don't
ike. 1t is the hardest part of war
!arder, great deal, to ME, than fight
ng in battle,
The telegraph is finished to Savannah,
nd if anything happens, word can and
ill be sent Immediately. My health is
air. Its notso good as it was month
go; still it is not, by any means, bad
have some cold, and my stomach is
tile the worse for the hardships 1 have
injured. l have no clothing but what
have on my back.
We are going to see another hard bat
e here. IF we are successful we think {
1at the fighting will be about over in
lie West; but the future is alone with
he that is wiser than We are.
Good bye, dear father and mother, 4
sters and brother, relatives, pastor,
nd friends-if we never meet again in
lis world. But lei US hope we will.
MILTON.
I. s,-Lieutenant Lasley has gone te =,
incinnati. He is not SO badly hurt as :,
thought. He is brave; SO is Lieut.,
lack; so is Serg't Bradley, and CorpI
eek, of Middleport. I join my Regi- z
ent to-day, the 14th Washington d
9unty has suffered terribly here-lost a
at least. Benz. Woods, of Salem, is Il
e only one from Meigs killed. NJ.