Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-02-13
@Ortester Daily Spg.
LETTER FROM GEN. FREMONE
FremOnts Campaign in the Mountain
Department..

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~ originally published IN your paper Oh Tue
18th, contains the following paragraphs:
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army corps VI MAYOR Neheral frelhoht' a SAD
report oi WhiGn was ihaue 70 me ny ueheral
o.sel' wiien ne renewed ueh' Fremont III
colnn"nu vi tne corps
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1ARFEhs FERRY April ~, lo62'-AaJ.
Geh. fremont We are blvouacked five
n'ieS OUT OF winchester, after thirty-elglt
uayS without tents or shelter. troops want
my SnoeS 700 Dadiy 10 move, but full OF ener-
sy, Win Few SICK. waiting Tor shoes, pro-
visions and forage. Horses much jaded and
nearly starved. W. 5. RosEcRANs,
Brlgadier General U. S. A.
10 reailze now severe this exposure was, it
Is wen 10 recall the fact that this winter and
spring were marked us a memorable season OF
extraordinary rams The interval between
TINS time and the 9th OF May, when they en-
tered my department at Romney, was occu-
NTGnerHl hOSDGr1nS pn0p1VnrInn
getJust such supplies as would tit them for
the neld. notwithstanding his exertions they
We're sull' IN many respects, i'll supplied and
unht Tor service. 1t was necessary to pro-
Vlde SHOES Tor several thousand while they
were Delng pressed forward from Romney TO
Petersburg' and fully one half arrived without
blankets or overcoats. | was at this place
with about thirteen hundred men, on the way
to execute proposed campaign in Southern
Virginia, when this corps finally Joined me
on the afternoon of May II, certainly in a
wretched condition as regarded health and
comfort, but as General Rosecrans described
them, full OF energy'-a fine, soldierly
corpS-ln my Judgment, at least equal in tao
ucal condition to any volunteer corps in the
service.
On the morning after it joined me [ moved
with this corps upon Franklin to the relief of
Gens. Schenck and MirOy, who had been
pressed back upon this place by superior
force under jackson. The commands of
Gems. Schenck and Milroy were composed of
Ohio and Virginia troops. They had passed
the entire winter in active field service, more
or less in collision with the enemy, and in
their recent engagements with Jackson's
force had behaved with steadiness and gal
lantry that reflected the highest honor on their
officers and themselves. The entire force as
sembed at this place, therefore, consisted of
the Blenker division, the brigadeS of Gems.
Schenck and Alilroy, and light brigade Of
ONO and Virginia troops under Col.-now
Brig. Gen.-CluSeret.
The troops had lately been under forced
marches, living upon incomplete and
scanty ratons, being for days together scanti-
~ supplied with beef only. Their insufficient
diet had materially affected their health, and
the medical director reported the entire COM
mand 'in condition Of starvation and incip-
lent scurvey."
In this condition | received orders from the
president directing me to march to the relief
of Gen. Banks At daylight the next morn
ing the troops were on the march. taking the
road to Petersburg, at which place were left
the tents and knapsacks, with the baggage
and provision trains of nv command. resery-
ing for absolute necessities but four wagons to
each regiment. Ammunition and rati0ns for
three days made the basis for TRANSFORMATION
allowed.
The alacrity and good feeling with which
this order was executed, and the cheerful