Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-01-19
a PotItIon 20 con. olusere,

CAMr Ora REG'T VIRGISrA Vol. ISF.
WISCHEsrER, Va, Jan. 8. 1863.
To Brig. Gen. CIuseret, Commanding FTr,t
Brigade, MitroY's Decision
The undersigned petitioners feeling an
ardent desire to be ordered to jackson,
Roane, aud Calhoun counties, to scout that
part of Virginia, so much infested by guer-
rillas, and at the same time relieve the
suffering families of large number Of our
men, beg leave to make the following state
ments of facts US the ground OF our peti-
tion.
lst. That the majority. OF the companies
OF our regiment are made up wholly, or in
part OF men from the above PANIED counties,
all of whom have more or less been made
| the subjects of those raids SO frequently
made by the guerrillas of that aud ada
ceut sections of country. Quite uum6er
of the families of these men have been
robbed and plundered of every comfort of
life, even the clothing from their wives and
little es,whIch as tito add Insult to injury
we're given to women of the " baser sort, /"
with which to cloth them and their chill.
dren. Their horses and wagons have been
stolen and driven off to the rebel army, so
that no means of transportation are left to
them. Some have been driven from their
houses, and families of traitors put in them,
while those women and children are house
less and homeless dependant upon the
cold charities of their neighbors.
These hearttess rebels, as if determined d
to leap the climax OF crime, have even
dared to violate the wives of our men in
three distinct cases. These men say, with
patriotic hearts too, that they have volun.
tarily placed their lives upon the altar of
their country, but when their wives and
little ones are thus laid upon that altar too,
1 It 10 more than human nature can bear
| With all duej Difference We think that in
these grievances, there is Sufficient to de-
mand an army; but your petitioners nsk
but for one regiment. All that your petit
TONERS ask is, that our very excellen,
Colonel, With his command, be ordered to
| K"venswood or Ripley, in jackson county,
as ont. headquarters, with Instructions to
scout through Jackson Rome and Calhoun
counties, and in the meantime give
our men an opportunity to move
their families to safer place. We
are fully aware that it has been pro-
posed to give our men furloughs, but
II this were done it would require com.
tpauy of armed soldiers TO guard each sol.
der to his home, and when there the hard
earned money received from the paymaster
would be expended! on the Trip. And in
addition to this, the money they might have
left for their families would DC. spent for
the meaEre support of their families only
to be fiiched BY the FIRST rebel that chanced
that way. g.y,ts.
We ask this order for. Elk weeks or two
mouths, when We will be glad to return to
your command, or any other in the United
States army, to spend the residue of our
three years service in the cause of our be-
loved Government.
Thomas BoEgs, Captain company K, 9th
reg't Va. Vol. Inf; SsW. Spencer, Cap.
tain co. b W. b. WetzeI, ist Lieut.. co.
D; G W. Hicks. 1st Lieut.. CO. G; G. S.
P. Carroll, Captain CO. D; a. +. Bratton,
Captain co. ]; J. ". Miller, Captain co.
+; Samuel Davis, Captain co. a; W. G.
Smith, Lieut.. comd'gs CO. II; Vim. En-
gleman, Captain co. Il.