Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1863-03-26
lFrom the New York Evening Post1
The Voice of the Brave Soldiers--An
Appeal from the Ellsworth Regi.
ment.
NO FIRES IN THE REAR.

Tne VOICE OF the Brave SOfdIers.-An n
Appeal from the Ellsworth Regi.
ment.
NO FIRES IN THE REAR.
A letter to US, dated Army of the Poto.
mac, March 9, says:
The most eloquent voice yet raised
against dishonorablc peace and the mach
inatlnations OF traitors at home, is that of
the Forty-fourth Regiment New York
Volunteers, in the address sent herewith,
which was this day adopted with startling
unanimity, every officer and soldier present
in the regiment. subscribing his name to it
with enthusiastic earnestness.
The words are few but well chosen,
vigorous, and pregnant with truth. These
men have a right thus to speak--their
battles, their bravery, their dicipline and
their honorable scars, entltle them to a
hearing. Let no one fail to read this
stirring appeal in favor of the war, by those
who are fighting it, and let sympathetic
traitors hang their heads for shame to be
thus rebuked by patriots like these.
THE ELLSWORTH REGIMENT TO ITS FRIENDS
A, Appeal to the Peopte Of Tie State Of
NeU York
We can no longer keep silent. A sacred
devotion to our country, an ardent love for
our homes, and above all, an abiding faith
in God, bids Us speak. For nearly two
years we have suffered all things, perilled
all things, endured all things, for the sake
of our common country. We have left our
business, our kindred, our friends, the fire.
side Of our youth, the sacred places Of
prayer, and all the nearest and dearest re-
lations of life, to serve our country We
have endured hunger, thirst. cold and heat
By day and by night we have borne the
weight of our knapsacks and the WEAKNESS
Of the march. We have worked late and
early in thetreuches, we have bivcuacked
in the swamps; we have suffered sickness
in the hospitals: we have not been spared
from "the pestilence that walkeih il dark
ness" nor from "the destruction that
wasteth at MONDAY" We have never
shrunk from duty, but rather have again
aud again cheerfully sought death, even at
the cannon's mouth, to save our Union from
destruction, our homes from disgrace, and
you and your children from eternal shame.
W hen we came to the field we came with
your blessing You told US to go--thai
God would be with US, aud that your most
fervent prayers should follow u.s. Encour
aged by your words of patriotism, of hope
of faith, we came to the war. After suf
fering thus much in behalf of you and youl
children, and the nations honor, dear alike
to us all will you withhold from us now youl
sympathy and support? Will you join witt
those, worse than traitors, at the North
who cry Peace" when they know there i.
no peace, nor can be none till this unhol,
rebellion is crushed? VIII you.ally your
selves with those who, by words OF discour
! agsineaf, ara prolongiug this.war, and VII,
| afe thus becoming, in the sight of boil
Heaven aud earth, the insidious murderer
OF your sons and brothers here in the field
Why should you, who suffer none of tn,
dangers, none Of the privations of field O.
camp, be less patriotic, less faithful, les.
hopeful less confident in God and tn,
holy cause in which we are engaged, thai
we who endure all?
Shall the future historian, in writing th,
record of this great struggle, declare with
truthfulness that the people OF the North
1 having sent their sons to the field, to peri
their lives for the safety Of their homes
their property and the national government
having poured out at the first blush of thei
patriotism their treasure and blood with tn
freencss of water, at length, through indit
ference and apathy, and the love ofease an,
luxury which the war engendered, sough
the unstable terms OF an inglorious peace
and finally became only subservieut to thos
I whom they attempted to subduc?
That this shall not be the record of the Elm
pire State, with your sympathy and heart
co operations, we, the undersigned officer:
non. commissioned officers and privates, O
the Forty fourth regiment New York Stat
Volunteers, representing every county froI
Lake Erie to the ocean, here pledge ane,
our lives and our sacred honor. For W
feel assured that if you seek peace nov
upon any terms less than those Of an entiI
submission on the part of the traitors i
arms to the government of the Unite
States, that that peace will only be tempo
ry, and that sooner or later you will b
, Obliged to send your younger sons an
brothers to enrich this soil, already fertil
, with the dead-younger and tresher bloc
:! to re-crimson these streams already re
with slaughter.
HeadquaI ters Forty fourth regimen
New York State Volunteers, Camp nea
, Falmouth, Va, March 6, 1868.
Signed Colonel James Q. Rice, Major /
. f. Knox, Surgeon w. W. Townsend, A,
|, jutant Geo. B. Henendeen, Lieutenant
|, r. Mudiay, Qumtermaster; AssistaI
. Surgeon TX. Fern, Captain d. 5. Larabe
Captain w. N. Danks, Captain Z. A. Nasl
Captain Chas. w. Gibbs, Captain w. |
Bourne, Captain Jacob Fox, Captain @.
a Royce, Assistant Surgeon d. @. Spence
First Lieutenant b. X. Kimberly, Fir
( Lieutenant s. f. johnson, First Lieutenal
e Chas. d. Grannis, First Lieutenant X. I
r Mccormick, lst Lieutenant Charles Kell.
!. Second Lieutenant James III. Russo
Second Lieutenant John j. Hardenburg
!, = Second Lieutenant Anthony G. Graves, j
4 Second Lieutenant Benz. W. Thomas, Se
! ond Lieutenant Henry J. Botchford, Secol
. Lieutenant L. l.. Dunham, Second Lie
4 tenant F. NJ, Kelly, and every non col
s missioned officer and private present in Il
1 regiment. $3.50 p uA .Wsa ,e-r9
A. IL