Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-10-07
From the sth Regiment,
4 Long Rest Condition Of tie Regiment
Lsages IF A5Sancs-.drpg .Se5ti1aeaf Respect
i5'g TIE Peace Party-SoIdiefs for the Union
State 1scset-7hc. RyoR address, de.
CAMP SHERMAN, NEAR NICKSBUBG, !
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| EN-6A4 H| tldft ttiLdiiIttl III TINS tdIuI
with little = do aside from duty. Toward
the last days of the siege of Vieksburg ou
| brigade was sent across the river TO Young
Point Louisiana, to guard the peninsula op
posite the city, and keep Kirby Smiths (rcb
eli forces at a respectful distance from the
| river. While there we suffered seyerel,
| with miasmatic feyers. Our long rest here
has restored health generally, and the com.
mand is again in good fighting and marching
| trim, with little prospect at present, how
| ever, OF having To do either. Future army
| movements are not much discussed in this To-
cality, for the reason that nobody pretends
| to know what direction our winter campaign
| Will take Heretofore, in this department,
we have usually had no difficulty in antici-
pating the points against which we were to
be moved. The enemy was constantly in our
front, and boastful of numerous strategic
points," and "last ditches;" but now the
Armies of the West, having opened the river
and cleared its banks of all enemies, are at a
lost to know what there is for them TO do
next When Mobile falls, probably Banks
viii march into Texas, and our corps move
forward and occupy the line of the Alabama
river forming a connection with Rosecrans
on our left. But it IS idle to speculate
Col. Robbins has resigned. \ great many
officers and men are home on brief fJrlouehs
The order Of Gen. Grant allowing a certain
per cent. OF the soldiers of each regiment TO
go home, is having a good influence. The
ma allpvrni thirty do - :,
table fact that they generally rejoin their
commands at the expiration of their fur
lOughs. Officers are allowed but twenty DAYS,
and it is a fact, whether crcditable or not.
that they generally do not rejoin their com
mands at the expiration OF their leaves
But there Is a good reason why they do not
At the present low stage of water in the
Mississippi, it takes from eight to ten DAYS to
90 from Nicksburg TO Cairo, and two DAYS
from Cairo anywheres To return within his
leave, an officer who starts for Wisconsin,
having twenty days from Vicksburg, should
90 no farther than Chicago; from there he
can 1r5te To his friends that his leave will ex-
pire by the time he returns to Yickshurg, and
can hope they have enjoyed his visit! There
was an understanding that the : twenty DAYS"
meant twenty days outside of the depart
ment;' /. e. from Cairo; but up to this time
there has been no official confirmation of the
fact. The consequence is that every officer
who returns, having overstayed his leave
goes before a military commission, where his
case Is investigated and the proceedings for
warded to the War Department. Cur more
fortunate brOthcr-soldiers in the Army of the
Potomac can go home and return in six DAYS
However, we have nobody to blame but our
selves. We should not have worked our way
so far into the Southern Contedcracy.
Among the absent officers are Captains
Redheld, Of Co. \, King, Of Co. g, (sickD
Estee, of Co. H, (wounded,) Dawes, of Co D,
(WOunded and on detached service in the
Department of the Northwest Wolf, of Co.
G, sick, and Kennedy, sick and Lieutenants
Jones, Williams, Mcdowell and PaImeter.-
Capt. Young, Of Co. E, has been detached for
nearly year, commanding the Division Pr
oneer Corps. He has good thing Of it
The Corps numbers over a hundred enlisted
men, mechanics, and has or is to have three
hundred negroes attached to it. Surgeon
Murta, than whom the service has no better
medical officer, and Capt. Bartlett, Of Co. X,
Lieut. Doty, OF Co. q, and our popular suffer,
Fred. Cooley, all returned from visit home
yesterday.
1t Is Il notable fact that every soldier comes
back to the army disgusted with the peace
party Of the North, denouncing it as sympa-
thIZing with the traitors whom we are en-
deavOring to subdue. Engaged as the army
has been for two years in actively fighting
the rebels, and paying little attention to par
ty politics in the North, it has been slow to
believe that there was really party at home
amounting to anything, either in talent or
numbers, which cherished disloyal sentiments;
but when such a man as Nallandi CHAM is nom
mated for the highest Office in the gift of the
people of a State, when the Governor of
great State and prospective candidate for
the Presidency pats wild mUrderous mob on
the back and endeavOrs to bully the Govern
mcnt into yielding to its clamors, when in our
own State a numcrOusly attended convention,
having no single word of commentator for
the soldiers or of cheerful hope and sympa-
thy for soldiers families, adopt a platform re-
plete with the most pcrniciOus teachings and
cynical illusions to the government, when the
honest earnest efforts of the Administration
to save The Union are found fault with and
the President reviled, snecred at and deiied,
when the leading rebels are praised as states
men and their treachery fairly applauded
when sllUlks and towards who desert our ar
mics are given places Of refuge and their APP
prchcnsion resisted by force, when sick sol
diers seeking to recover their lost health in
the quiet Of their own homes are badgered
ana Irritatcd till they dic-when these things
are done in the North, as the army learns
from its returned members. from the public
papers, and from private letters, the conclu-
sion is inevitable that the party organization
which encourages such practices is disloyal to
the core, and its leaders as much deserving
hcmpen collar as the leaders of the rebels in
arms, When this war Is ended and the army
disbanded, men who have been disIoyal in
word or deed viii be objects of contumelv,
and their cowardly instincts will prompt them
TO accept every kick and reproach which 10y
atty gives them as gracious favors, thankful
to escape so easily. The position Of the ne
gro race is supposed to be sufficiently humili-
ating, but the degradation of the present
race Of Copperheads VIII be ineffabe
When election day arrives, if the Wiscon-
sin soldiers in this department are not shoot
ing leaden bullets into the rebel ranks, YOU
viii find them sending a broadside of ballots
against the Copperheads at home. Their vote
VII be unanimous for the candidates on the
UNION TICKET and, = is mcro than likely,
that if they should be on a M. oh or entering
a fight, they would ask for a short halt, or
brief suspension Of hostilities" in order to
attend to the enemies in the rear In the
North there is a great deal of discussion as
to what constitutes " reasonable language"
If submitted to the test of the undoubtedly
loyal army, the matter would speedily be set
tied Hariangues that are listened to by YOU
with no immediate marks of disfayor, would
quickly be stopped if attempted to be deliv-