The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-04-18

company, IN Iact nave not seen it since
November 1st, having been assigned 70
duty on the Staff of Brig. Gen. Fit HEM! 70
Warren in October last. For the sake,
our common humanity trust the enti,s
statement may prove unfounded: but II 10
any measure true of any officer in the linz,
ted States service, shall be happy to ION
with you in assisting to make his infamn
| eternal.
! Ihave the honor to be, very respect,v
Your obedient servant,
8. S. BURDErr.
Capt. Go. r. LIST Iowa Cavalry.
What Democrat thinks of Az
| fairs in Kentucky.
We find the following letter from Juspe
w. N. Meservey, now of the Union armv
in the Fort Dodge Republican. The judge
is a lifelong Democrat, and his ideas can
not be ascribed to fanatical Abolitionism.
If he don't find things as they ought to be,
and by some are supposed to be, in the loy&
State of Kentucky, it must be because they
don't suit his democracy. The picture is
not fiattering, but We do not doubt its gen.
eral accuracy:
10TH Rect ILL Vols, q. 8. ARAY,l
Camp Hobson, KY, March q, '63. !
Mr.. EDITOR:-After an absence of fiys
months without seeing a copy of the home
paper, and without hearing but little from
| the old friends at home, have concluded
| to write you a few lines and ask you to once
and while send me copy of the Repu5t-
| can, which will most certainly be apprecia-
ted. / would have it sent regularly, but we
move around so much.
The 10th is composed of 1000 men, who
are as good and true men as ever shoulder
| ed musket, and with Col. j. j. Kelly lone
of the best men God ever made) to lead
them, are good for three times their num-
Der of rebels, at any and all times. They
were first stationed observation-disclosures; Ken
| tucy, where old Abraham was born, then
at Mumfordsville on the Green river, and
now at Glasgow, ali three places being as
great hOt-beds of secession as Charleston
South Carolina. Men who are at home
and know nothing aboutthe working ofour
armies, and but little about the policies
pursued, wonder that we make no more
Roadway in crushing this accursed rebel
lion; buff they will come down to Dirtc
and see the obstacles that our army has to
overcome, they would wonder that they do
as we'll as they do. In the first place, Ken
lucky to-day is not as loyal as Tennessee,
in my opinion, but she must be counselled
| and catered to all the time to keep her in,
| the Union, and the soldiers from the free
States must be kept, here by thousands to
protect her people, instead of Kentucky
protecting herself, as she should do. We
have now some 25, 900 troops from the North
ern States, along the line of the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad, guarding the
bridges and protecting the property of the
Railroad Company, and from what? Why
sir, from the citizens of Kentucky solely;
and ia the opinion of the soldiery, the I'M
| armed citizens are as bad or worse than the
armed, and yet our soldiers must lie in
their tents, away from home and friends, be
! insulted and abused by Kentucky chivalry,
| as they are every day, not only privately,
but by the public Journals.
Gen. Burnsides has recently sent some
5000 troops into this State from different
places. Some of the flags borne by the
brave boys, bear the inscription "Antie-
TAM" We must now have an army Of at
least $4,000 Northern troops in this State
| protecting its sacred soil, and more espe-
cially its sacred Negroes more sacred to
the slaveholding portion of Kentucky, than
any Government on. earth. They all pre-
tend to be for the Union, while they have
sent their sons and young men to jeff.
Davis's army, and are to-day feeding and
clothing them, and if u word is salt. against
that has hlighted the fairest prospects Of
the State, and reared the largest portion Of
it's sons and daughters in Ignorance and
idleness,-Oh, you must not do that or the
State will secede; but as soon as the South
ern scoundrels, = murderers and horse
very clamorous for, the Yankee Abolition
soldiers to protect them, and to-day take
| from this State the soldiers that have come
from the free States, and in ten days. the
rebel soldiers would be in Louisville, and
| pillage and lay waste the whole State. ]
suppose there is hardly an armed soldier in
Illinois or Iowa. Yet, sir, do you or be-
lieve that jeff. Davis minions could come
in and destroy our railroads, and burn our
property? No, we could raise women and
| children enough to send them to Davy
Jones' without calling on the Government
for troops. The trouble lies in this that
| some of the very worst men against this
Government are allowed to be and remain
among US, whereby they can give the enc
my all the information needed, and sir, in
the city of Louisville, some of the most
conspicuous men about the hotels are par
| oled rebel officers, insulting Union men
and soldiers, not only bytheir contemplate
presence, but by insulting language, while
our men taken prisoners by them are COM
PEELED to labor, and many of them with ball
and chain, in the dirty jails and penitentia-
ries of the South. Sometimes l have been
almost constrained to doubt the success OF
our arms, and to say there is no balm IN
Gilead, and no physician there; but with
| the proper efforts, this thing can and Will
be crushed out, and that soon. Speaking
of the ignorance of some of the people in
! this country, Will give you few speci-
mems: A bright, good looking woman Of
about So years, came to our camp one day
and was shown the first Postage Stamp she
ever saw; another had lived within five
miles of the Railroad for six years, and
never saw train Of cars; and any amount
of both sexes that never saw the American
Flag, and 1 can travel all day through the
country among farmers that are estimated
to be worth from forty to one hundred ana
two hundred thousand dollars, that COOK
stove would be more of a curiosity to them,
than Barnum's "What is it," My respects
to all friends, and hoping to return to my
home soon, 1 am yours respectfully.
w. N. MESERvEY.
ANOTHER ROMANTIC INCIDENT OF THE
WAR.-A letter from the 49Hh New YORK
regiment, adds one to many Romantic Incl
: dents of a similar nature connected with
' tho present war. A few days since, a Cor
poral in the 10Th N. Y. regiment, the camp
Of which adjoins that OF the 4sth, was taken
sick, and had to be piaeed IN the regimen
: dance upon the sick soldier, it was discov-