The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1863-07-17

grape shot few thick as hail. It seemed
to me that every man in our Regt. would
fall Col. Wilson, sat on his horse as cool
ly as if II was nothing but rain or hail.
All officers and men showed remarka-
ble bravery. After fighting in this way
Tor an hour or more. Col. Ely Of the
18Th Regt. hoisted the white flag and
surrendered all the troops that had been
lighting, some four or five Regt., while
the fighting was going on the rest of otr
forces with Milroy flanked the rebels and
cut sticks for the Ferry. 1t was grind
ing for Col. Wilson and the rest Of us to
surrender to the ragged rebelsibut thero
was no help as we were by this time sur
rounded by some $4,000 rebels. They
took us back to Winchester and kept us
in the fort. DR.. Ferris, Bonie and went
to the hospital to care for the wounded.
There were about SO killed and wounded
in our Regt. that morning, only two Off
Gers wounded Capt. Bender and Lieut..
Acher from Fostoria both pretty badly.
Dr. Hyatt Asst. Surg on was badly hurt
by his horse falling on him, during the
fight.
David Galbreath, and John Henry Swine,
heart from Upper Ssndushy, were killed
dead, and Andrew Hehlebower was woun.
ded and is missing, at least he is not in
the hospital at Winchester. A good ma
ny of our Regt. got through to Harpers
Ferry. There were 305 enlisted men ta-
ken and all our officers except Maj. Kel-
!"gg, Capt. Shawan with his company es-
capped.
I remained at Winchester two weeks
dong all | could to help tine wounded.-
They had sent all the well men on to
Richmond soon after the capture. An
other squad was going and | concluded
10 go as the wounded were doing well and
had good attention. One reason why
was so anxious to get into our lines again
was that knew you would be anxious to
hear from me, and was very anxious to
hear from you might have stayed there
all summer and could never have got q
letter onward to you.
tried every way to send you word
wrote several times and put my trust in
luck to get them through l know not
whether you have ever received any ol
them yet or not.
At Winchester we, in the hospital,
Jared pretty well at the rebels hands; but
after leaving there We had awful hard
times. We had to march 90 miles to
Staunton on foot. with little loaf Of bread
and little pork, it took us five days.
Those Of us that had money Jared
tolerably well, as we could buy bread,
paying for it $3.50 and $500 per loaf,
Pies 30 cents and other things in proper
lion, those who hal no money, or nothing
to sell went hungry. At Staunton we
took the cars for Observation-Disclosures 1875
miles. On this trip we had nothing but
three army crackers to support life. The
country through is the best part Of Vir-
ginia, and is all planted in wheat and
corn--but such crops! the poorest farmer
in Ohio. would not harvest them. We
arrived in Richmond at o'clock, P. M,
and the whole rebel capitol turned out to
see the Yankees; and would hoot and mss
at us as we passed along. we marched
first to the celeofa'ed L'oo'e fIlsoh where
they have the of1lcers connneo. mere l
saw Col. Wilson and captain hooolns
looking out OF the window OF iron oars'
They will have to remain there' sup
pose, until they are exchanged. as 'hey
90 not now parole officers. Ihey VIII
not have long to remain ii the gl'r'ous
news we have heard to day prove true
V'cksburg surrendered, and Meade CIV
ing them thunder in Pa. We were put
in Belle Island Prison near Richmond
where we spent or 10 days in perfect
misery. We were closely guarded not
even allowed the privilege of buying one