Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-01-21
CAMP OPDYAcE. KY,
Is. 1868.

Dear Chronick:-It has been now nearly
four months since the first recruits for the
I25th regiment went into camp at Cleye-
land. What an eventful period it has
been to us who were among that conse-
Grated fewl True, we have not beer the
heroes of a bloody battle field, no stood
where the red mouthed artillery yomited
its bloody hail; but ours has been the
more peaceful employment of drill, and
of calm preparation for an approaching
hour when our feble service may tell with
greater weight upon the side of our
afflicted country.
Commenced, as it was just before the
draft, and at a time when scores of re-
cruiting officers were canvassing every
town in the State, it is not strange that
the l25th was not filled up at once, as
were many of the older regiments. 1t
has succeeded better than its warmest
friends had good reason to expect; and
now hat it is complete, special honor is
due to those who, by most incessant Ia
Dor, have placed it in its present prosper
Gus state.
If half the compliments we have re-
ceived since leaving Cleveland are de-
served, we stand to-day, in ability OF
officers, in drill, in character of men, in
all save experience before the foe, infer
ior to no other regiment Ohio has yet
produced. But we do not rely alone in
hattering words. We look forward to a
future time when by hard fighting the
l25th shall give a more enduring proof OF
its efficiency, and establish for itself, il
not an immortal, at least an honorable
name.
Our present emcampment named IN
honor of our gallant Colonel whom we
all love, not less for his fine military quail
tiles than for his uniformly kind and
gentlemanly department. is situated
about two miles southwest of Louisville
The grounds are dry and pleasant and al
though we are in tents almost entirely
without stoves, We are very comfortable
as yet having suffered scarcely none al
all with cold. In fact the weather seems
much more like May than what we have
been accustomed to experience in north
ern Ohio in mid~winter. How long we
shall remain in our present position car
only be answered as similar queries us
ually are in millitary-"Don't knOtC." W.
hope, however, to move further Soutl
soon.
To all external appearances Louisville
as loyal a city as Cleveland, though it /
whispered that there is a disloyal unde'
current which is materially modified by
the presence of several regiments o
Union troops in the immediate vicinity
By order ofGeneral Boyle, commanding
this department, the l25th regimen
acted as funeral escort to the remains o
Colonel Foreman, late of the 18th KY.
killed at M~urfreesboro, and inferred in
the Louisville Cemetery on last Sunday
The weather was delightful, and the cere
mony attended by many distinguishes
military men, among whom were severa
Colonels, was of the most imposing char
acter. We felt justly honored at thus be
ing chosen from among older regiment
posted equally near the city, to do homo
10 the remains of one of Kentucky's mos
cherished sons ; but we also felt paine'
at the reflection that q hand long pro
tected by the same glorious State, perhap
directed the unfortunate missile tina
caused his death.
Our friends engaged in more peaceful