The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-02-26
Our Army Correspondence.
From the First Wisconsin Regiment.

CAMP KEAR MURFREksBoRo,(
Feb 18th, 1868.
Friend 1etegraph.-It has been Il long time
since have troubled your columns, for l knew
very we'll that your space was needed / in these per-
ilous times for recoiding more important events
than l could chronicle.
For the past month we have had winter weather.
as that term is used here, that is, about once Il
week we are visited with g cold rain which turns
int snow in a day or two, and winds off with a
cold snap. OF course the health of the Regiment
isn't very good, but is better than could be expec-
ted from the amount of exposure we are subject
to. Between guarding forage trains, plcketing
and digging trenches, We manaee o take the good
of most of the rain and snow we receive.
Gen. Rousseau has been assigned another CONS
mand in Kentucky, and Gen. Granger has taken
his place. He is a severe stirring man, blu. is NOT
the favorite that Rousseau was. If is only another
instance OF the tickleness Of Government. When
the right man does get into the right place
why don'r they leave him therel
Unit within a day or two. we have not received
any northern papers for some weeks. BY these
perceive that the press at the North is just waking
up to the situation of affairs. The have been iall.
GU " thS lying dispatches u government JILL
cials, into the belief that we were doing very vel
and that ii great blow was going 10 be struck soon,
until such reports are beginning to be dlsbelieved
Of one thing | am certain, if affairs throughout the
army are misIepresented as much as they are within
my own observation, il might all be annihilated
and hose who relied on the telegraph for their
news. would know nothing about it. As an ex>
ample, the dispatches some time ago, stated that
Wbeeler's Cavalry had made a dash into our rear
burning several wagons und taking the teamsters
prisoners. One would hardly infer from that, that
more than 10 miles Of wagons were burned be-
tween here and Nashville, besides immense num-
bers on other roads. Two regiments OF this
brigade had their wagons and camp e~quipage en-
tirely destroyed, and had to live without tents
blankets or change of clothes till more could be
supplied by the government. Why don't such
things find their way into the papers, l do Not
write these things to discourage any ole, but there
is no object in binding ourselves to the real truth.
We are in the most gloomy part ofour history.
The finances of the country are nearly ruinaa, al
EnOat eyary house mourus the loss of some membtI
and what have we gained thereby? Our pros.
pects to-day are not as bright as they were a
year ago. The fire of patriotism has been drowned
in blood;no one volunteers now to enter the ranks
There is more ambition than patriotism among
our generals, and we are the tools that must SAT
fer therelrom. 1t is evident that there is inaom.
potency somewhere, and every citizen has q righr
to know where it is.
One wonld infer from the Notifications being
dug here thatan attack was expected OH misplace
but there is nothing certain. The papers keel
saying we are gcing to advance before long, anC
perhaps we may. Amid all the distrust and gloon
which surrounds US, we have faith in Reseci ans
Would there we're more like him.
The occasional copies of your paper received
are most welcome, they look the most like home o
any thing we get.
AS ever yours, w