Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-16
OUR ARMY CORRESPONDENCE
CAMP OF 35ru IOWA, NEAR VICKsBURG,
September 81. 1868,

| September 81, 1868. {
W,E, camp has been changed, and we are
now comfortably located in our new quarters.
The 35th is somewhat divided just at present,
Companies B, E and q being three miles west
of the b,lance of the brigade, which Is en-
camped on Young's Plantation, where the
35th stood picket at the time Vicksbufg fell.
The detachment is under command of Capt.
Doran. Lieut.. Crietz, Of Co. G, is acting
| Adjutant, while your most obedient servant
| fills the humble position of Sergeant Major.
much to the satisfaction of - well, himself.
Having thus given you the "roster" of the
detachment, it will doubtless be unnecessary
to add that we are enjoying ourselves ''much-
! ly"-at peace with all mankind, and entire
disbelieverS in the doctrine of total depravty.
Enough, and plenty to spare in the provision
line, we would not call the Queen our Uncle
By-the-way, since shutting down on our
stealing operations our parents brother, Sam,
deals out our rations with no stinted hand
| How long things will remain IN this delight
| full situation is very uncertain, as things
hereabouts look somewhat like move to
parts unknown. If l mistake not when We
next set out the "fur will fly" for cer;ain.-
| AS it is quite sure, however, that more wool
must be pulled yet before the war is over, |
have no more objections to 60 at it now than
to wait awhile longer. It's "doocidedly dis
agweeable" anyhow.
Very little duty is required of the hoys
now An occasional night on picket, where
| enc slaps his face black and blue fighting
mosquitoes, about fills the BILL l believe
wrote you once before that these little insects
down this way reach IA state of perfection
that is rarely met with elsewhere. The cold
weather is rapidly approaching, when they,
like other finite beings, must have an end
! Apropos of the coming wint>r the nights are
uncomtortab,y cool already, and | pay my
midnight visit to the fire to thaw out Just as
regularly as 60 at midday to C ok my din
ner Blankets are in great demand, and
overcoa;s priceless. This is probably only
freak of the weather though, and ''intelli-
gent contrabands" inform us that days may,
yet be expected, this season, hot enough to
SINCE the hair off cats back. These cold
changes are rather provocative of ague than
otherwise, as many poor fellow, whose teeth
are now chattering the Devils Dream" can
abundantly testify.
The great remedy for all sickness here is
quin;ne. Fever and ague, colds, headache.
sore toes, coughs, stomach aches, bilious and
chronic diseases, dlarrhea, water-brash, sore
eyes, quincy, delirium tremens, cholera, yell
low fever, r,mittent fever, apoplexy, wounds,
cuts, bruises, and so on through the whole
catalogue, the great sovereign remedy is
qnipine, in doses of from one to two spoons
u oil kho for
sippi drug store would be comprised in 80 o..
quinine and l Dbl. whisky" The supply of
the former article ran out in one of our reg-
men,s the other day, and it is an astonishing
fact that for two days there was not single
death in that command.
The rebels, it is said, now exhume our dead
and extract from one to two ounces of the
valuable medicine from every skeleton, as this
is much cheaper method OF securing it than
smuggling through the lines.
TROOPS MOVING.
Gen. Sherman, with three divisions of our
army corps, goes North to-day to reinforce
Rosecrans at Chattanooga. Our division,
understand, will for the present remain in its
present position. Although it is evident we
have been sighted it don't hurt my feelings
the least. The big blisters of former MARCHES
have hardly lett my feet yet and do not care
to revive them by more glory just at present
And then we have got things fixed up here
very comfortably. In fact our camp is reg
ular Garden of Eden.
THE GENERAL HEALTH
of the regiment is improving slowly. The
following is the mortality list since l wrote
you last:
Company A, Amos Keeper; Co. B, VIM.
II. Pickering, Chas. T. Ruger Co. D, Her
shaw; Co. F, VIM. Chowan; Co. G, Isaac
wright Co. H, John Hicks, - Thayer.
So they go-twelve more patriots have died.
and with
"Not line and OF stone
To tell they e'er have bsen,'
Their bodies rest on the hills of Mississippi
They staked their lives and willingly paid the
sacrifice. They were good men and brave,
true so diers. Though they went to their asst,
long homes, not from tie noisy, smoky bat
tie field, but from the close and crowded hos
pital, who shall say that grateful country
will not enshrine their names high among its
list of martyrs? Who can tell their suffer
ings as they lay dying in their close heated
wards and saw first this comrade and then
that one carried out stiff and cold, knowing,
as some of them did, that they too must soon
follow What thoughts must have been en-
gendered by the low melancholy notes of the
dead march as it came to their ears, the knsll
of departed companion, as procession after
procession, with measured step aud arms re-
versed, marched away from the hospital door,
Death, horrible in any shape, loses none of
its terrors in military hospital.
GEN. FUTILE
has again returned and taken command of his
division, much to the satisfaction of all con-
cerned The boys like him too we'll as Gen
eral to make him Governor, consequently
they will 60 for Stone.
That Peace party up North is singular
institution, certainly. Why they should be
so clamorous for peace, when those who do
all the work and reap all the suffering, wish
to prosecute it to an honorable termination, is
remarkable. Perhaps they know more about
it than we do, but we can't see it. For my
part have marched too many miles, ate too
many hard crackers, and seen too many COM
rades stark and cold in death, to give it up
while rebel remains in arms. We, of the
army, have suffered too much to make conces
sions now "Strike home" is our motto
while a rebel lives. Revenge for the past
and safety for the future we must and will
have, come what will.
Stay at home, you peace men, take your
ease, and we will give you soon peace on
terms honorable to ourselves and to the flag
we represent.
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