Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-12-10
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Army Correspondence
what "a Private Thinks Of Some
Ofthe Omcers--NegrOes and
Negro -LOvcrs---Hard Fare
and Court Martial.

HDoRs ARMY or THE TEsSEssEE,
CAMP OF SHARP SHOOTERS.
PULASKI. Nov. 2l. 1868.
Editors Plain Dealer
1, as q soldier
fighting for our country's defence, take
the pen up once more to inform my
friends at home how we soldiers get
along, We are doing good business,
but as for the officers | cannot say So,
for most Of them will say go in boys
and give them hell, while they lay be-
hind stumps and logs and look on-but
, / thank God we have but few in our di-
) vision. Our good old Grant, as he is
called, says, "come on boys" and away
we all go, for we all know that where
he can go we can follow. But my dear
friends at home, 90 you know what kind
Of a man this brave Gen. Grant is? /
will tell you. He is man fighting for
his country's honor and liberty, not for
none: and office. This brave man is a
Democrat-but what do | hear from
some Of the so.called friends ? Why
they call the Democrats all copperheads
If such men are copperheads, | wish
we had few more such in the field -
Gentlemen do not want you to think
that / claim that the Democratic party is
all true blue, for there is good and bad
among all parties, but what party is it
that stands by the Union and the soldiers
in the field. My dear friends / have
never found fault with the fare I have
had, for l have always had enough to
eat and, when | did not get it I did
} not find any fault, for knew it could
, not be got. But cannot say so on this
march. But who did we have in COM
mand of our division? l will tell you
it is Brigadier General Dodge, the
man who says that one niger regiment
+ is better to fight than two white regi-
ments-but who, or what party does he
belong to? 1t is the gger-loving Abo-
} lition party.
G will tell you how we have lived on
S this long eleven days march. Orders
were issued by U. S. Grant to live on
/ the country, but up steps badge and
l. says if you touch anything that belongs
e to rebels l will have you all shot, for
It such they were where we marched, bu
we got out Of meat and he gave the Col
IT onels in command liberty TO kill som
Is cattle and hogs, but we had no salt am
it was rather fresh eating, and that wa
IN not all, we had to live on three lar
r tacks for two days, and if we left tn
ranks and went into house and bough
in some corn bread, made out Of cold wate
a. without salt, we were arrested and cour
n ri lad nd f,rn fhvaa ponth.'
taken away from US, bu: we could no
'e stand it. We thought we might as vel
ID be shot as to starve to death We tool
y it all into our own hands and jayhawket
d all the chickens and hogs, and turkey
r, and everything we could find that was fl
l. to eat. We found some salt and -four
and my friends, you had better believ,
= we had good dish, but it will be rathe
y a dear one for us, but we could not stant
it to see our officers with their niger
It loaded down with chickens and sweet
potatoes and everything good, and W.
J. poor privates go without. They hav,
n their niggers to steal for them and al
was right, but white man must not touct
b anything. But, my friends, there is
y time coming when all such men vii
It have to lay as low as we privates. This
is the way the negro loving abolitionist
Il want the private soldiers to live, but tht
6 nigger can have horse to ride and al
d he can eat. And if we white boys get ,
It mule along the road we must turn it owe
n to the Quartermaster, and the first thinG
you know you will see niger on him
= Now, my friends, did not come dowr
At here to fight for the niger; l volunteer
l. ed to fight for my country, freedom am
the Union, but as the niger ig rebe
le property, l hold up both hands to hav,
m them used as such, but not to have then
A. free votees and to hold Office, and thsnl
e. God the soldiers will not permit tina
thing to take place. If the niger i
freed. give him niggers' rights, but no
white mems.
II If one niger regiment is worth tw
Of whites what is the reason the lovin,
Dy Aboitionists do not want them conscrip
H. ted? They say it is too bad to have tn
e. fine greasy pets fight, but they cry GU
he push on the war and draft all tho poo
IN white citizens in the North. for it is tn
TO poor men that have to come. The ric
can pay their three hundred dollars an
fe stay at home, and then if we do nc
bo move as they think we ought, there Is
n. great fuss made, and somebody superse
n. ded. but l tell you it is not an easy thin
a TO move a large army where we have
~ build bridges and cut out roads 1t TAX
n. some timc, think we have moved yer
II. fast on this march, for we have lived O
lv short rations. and marched one hundre
o. and ifty miles in eleven days. We a
ns now encamp ped for few days, to rest,
n. town called Pulaski. in Tennessee, b
,re l do not think we will remain here lon
le. for loving Dodge wants to get into a
"a. ton. Now my friends, | have new
lv found fault before, and l hope l M
,cs never do SO again.
= From your friend, w. c.
The young lady who can sing tn
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