Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-02-27
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season.
I'll write again. and hoping tLis may find
The sane full. frie nd y greeting good and kind
Preamble, thus far and no moro
As we have left Kentucky shore,
III some Of our adventures tell
While on the journey thence: so we'll
Was that received that | by dint
OF much persuasion sent to print.
S.nce last | wrote you, from the land
o. Hail CoIumbia" a"-(understand
mean the tc,Ca so called BY US,
That in Kentucky long did try us) -
There's much we've done and got,
much more
We haven't done. Tire greatest bore
In all the round, was chasing John
Morgan, who raj, we followed on
In hot haste, to Columbia back
from Lebanan, while yet bis track
Was warm; but nothing gaining,
To CampbelIviIle returned; and
toiR-ing
Our goods fu6m Lebanan, next day
Toward New Haven broke our way;
New Haven welcomed us one morn,
And on the next, a heavy storm
OF snow sets in, and never finckes
Until to depth of twenty inches
1t lays a mantle on the ground,
And for five days we're surely bound:
But all things have an end: it mclts,
Our packs are laid upon our pelts,
And through the mud, two miles or
more.
To take the cars, our loads we bore:
And loaded in pretty muss:
q should have said the cars took us)
From thence to Louisville; and
Camp Wilder,
OF old renown, received us; nildcr
Than when we left it; though to say
We were the sadder on that day,
Were saying too much. -Four days
we staid,
Then left-in part a cavalcade
And part Infantry-surely bound
To seek some Southern holy ground,
Prepared for battlo, or a raid, or
S.irmish, on board the Jacob Stra-
der
Upon this boat, two days We waited,
To see the rest Of fleet get fre;ghte6 /;
This done, some thirty left the port
Including all kinds, loa@, and short,
And fine, and third cl rs; but the be!
Among them all's the J cob s..
Not much Of note Ortu red, except,
Ere leaving port, aboard there crept
A certain Major Kinney, kept
By .Uncle Sam for purpose only
Tt 1Or-u n f,f4l0 ,,-r,ro,-
This done, next morn we get afloat,
And Of fof Nashville goes the boat.
The third eve out, when near upon
the world renowned Fort Dnnclson.'
We hear guns firing, and surmise
Ahead Of US, a 'Reb. surprise
And have to help US in the thought
sFhe sight of hay barge, which
they've caught,
And which secured to shore is bla-
zing,
A sight Of what the Reb's are raising,
That is to say, tn expression meant
To be thought of, need not be sent
In usual form; for It's not quite
Proper to use in ears polite.
On landing near the fort, we find
That for a brush we're Just behind
The times; that here throughout
the day,
Our boys have had another frav
With the 'Confeds, and, fighting
well,
Against great odds, eleven fell:
Though causing first, It's safely said,
u lay down their arms, two hun
dred dead
Seeesh-this is fact, no blunder,
Aswe have had to put them UNDER
Men aree-who, as Texan Ranger,
Perhaps to you is not stranger
Is one who's numbered with the
dead:
And, by the way, from heels to head
Our boys have stripped him; as
you know
For. trophies all are bound to go:
As friends at home are always thot'
To like something from Secesh
caught,
And some folks now would give
dollar,
To have a piece Of Mons collar;
On this occasion, l am told,
Men was acting Brig and bold
To have our boys surrender to him,
He got a big hole plugged right
through him;
And, as I'm well informed, when
Iea was from the gun but PAGES ten.
I've said enough in this style; do
Not think l feel the less than you,
Or say that | have, as you find less
Of what's called milk Of human
q s & kindness
Because l speak so lightly now
OF these ttings-but I pray You,
how
Should we express our feelings when
" e are set of fighting men?
] cannot send this now. as we,
As regards mail, are quite AT soa'-
Shat is to say52tis said chat We VIII
Receive none till we get 10 Nash
vile;
Nor can we send ours, to our friends
.tronly Prey twill make amcnds
For long delay, and be the better.
Iqtle Dandy Jimof Carolne's' letter:
I mean what comes to US, for we
Surely can't hope the same will be
w lth truth and candor said of what
W. e write and we've not forgot
Our pay we have, and full amends
For saying, we are your true friends
OF 121sT.
NATHAN wxxLEAIEs