The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-02-09
ARMY CORRESPONDENCE
ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND,
MURFREEsBoRo, Tenn,
Jan. q, 1868.

had been killed, captured, wounded, or
some other dire calamity had befallen
me; but it is not So l am alive, all
0. K, and hope to be able to write the
good-sensed readers of the Journal many
an epistle yet.
Would have given you Hfull-length
portrait" of the battle of Stone River,
but as Uncle Sam had, for reasons best
known to himself, declined carrying sol
diers' letters for the time being, / had to
console myself as best could, and con-
tent myself to wait Now, do not under
stand me to complain of Uncle Sam for
his failure to carry the mail, for, after
having travelled on the road about four
times myself, have come deliberately to
the conclusion that it is "hard road to
travel" and l hope that in future John
Morgan will find another field Of action,
and not put himself to SO much trouble
about the railroad, for the greatest harm
he has done yet is to stop our mails
Since Gen. ,Rosecrans came into COM
mand, we have not for one day been
obliged to live on half rations; and in
times of comparative peace, when Gen.
Buell. commanded this great army, we
did more than that in the way of half
rations, by far.
( Well ;, the Nashville Union tells us now
~. IL l.
arrivals Of the mails, and that again the
very welcome and soldier-gladdehing
agency is on its hind feet so write
you.
go Our army is here very quiet. We en-
Joy the sunny South exceedingly we'll,
when there is sunshine, but we can't
boast Of that much. The soreness of q
hard and long battle has about passed
away, and now the army, with the i'm
mortal Rosecrans at its head, is pow
erful' engine of death and carnage, as
I Gen. Bragg now well knows
1t is amusing to hear the rebel citizens
pronounce the word " Yankee" They
SILVER as if with the chuck ague," but
of all names that is terror to them that
of " Hoosier" seems to make EN- most
afraid They hate Yankees, indeed they
do, mot wisely but too badly" An old
citizen of this place said to me the other
day: Sir, our people don fear the Yam
kees-they don't fear EN-, Sir, but those
Northwestern men, we are bound to ac-
knowledge them our equals, if not our
superiors."
Bravo" said I; but hold on my good
friend, let me tell you that there is very
sharp sprinkling of Yankee troops that
aided in clicking" Bragg so beautifully
just the other day. Perhaps a good
round thrashing on the Rappahannock
will cause you to Glove Yankees more
and Western men less" for it has been
said that to make a dog love you most
fondly, you must whip him often and
we'll Perhaps the same cogent reason
ing that makes one of those canine indi-
YidnalS cling to zou With-Sneh- axaaeAinr
make it soft as King Cotton himself
Now, Mr.. Editor, this worthy secesh
individual had the audacity to look and
act as if he considered me an impudent
fellow, all of which was most astonishing
to me.
The enemy left great many sick here
in hospitals, and fair lot of NJ. D. s to
attend them These fellows look as
brave as an NJ. d. is expected to look,
and wear jeans coats with enormously
long tails, SO that you are most likely to
say when you see 'em on the street,
what long tail our cat has got"
! During the progress Oft the fight, about
half dozen of rebel prisoners were
halted near me. | commenced to talk
| with one of them, burly Irishman.
asked him, care your soldiers paid"
"Faith," said he, one of EN- made it
pay yesterday" How" l enquired.
Be jabers he got thousand dollars in
greenbacks out Of one of your lads
pockets.
Well, Pat" 1 asked, "what are you
fighting for?"
Faith, Mister, and perhaps its yerself
that knows better than l do, but as near
as l can guess, it is eleven dollars
month.
Waggish, and no doubt good and
brave soldier, but in bad cause, how
ever, he only seemed to regret that he
was a soldier when l told him the price
of whisky with US was one dollar per gal
Ion, while. he added. Heavenly mit6er,
and it's meself that has paid eight, and
got weak crather at that, too"
l had the pleasure of meeting very
beautiful young lady a few days ago, who
is rank-poison secesh. Well, she is
pretty, and that, you know, is sufficient
cause for the covering up of many-a-
fault. l had previously become ac-
quainted with this fair lady, and on first
acquaintance, just to keep her from law
fishing her charms on me, had told her l
was married; however, l allowed her to
talk TO me of matrimony, till at last l
concluded to see how the idea of Young
Federal officer for gallant would take
with her. So proposed to bring one to
her house, to which she very readily con-
sented and, gave me to understand that
after all, she would not readily reject
appeals to her heart, and solicitations for
both heart and hand, coming from fed
eral officer.
The railroad has not been put in ope-
ration here yet, and the pike to Nashville
is all full of cutters. We forage for
twelve miles around the country, and will
soon eat out of house and home all the
good people hereabouts. The enemy is
at Shelbyville; or, it is said he is there;
| hOwever I am told IN nrattv ,,ood on