The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1863-10-23
In CHArYANooGA, Tenn, I
... Der. I'd, 1868 {
CAPT. s. S. PKrTITT:

CAPT. s. S. PErrITr:
........ Dear Sir-Tim'
is still rolling on, and with it, we are be
coming more and more settled, and art
beginning to get things in some kind OF
shape again. SO that we can begin to du
something. We have not seen our bag
brought 10 @e u ndt Hn IS wYs wYsSsGrdAy styy nas
been left. Our baggage has been great
ly reduced. Tens, aud all surplus bag
gage has been taken from US; so here we
are, without anything Or means OF taking
care OF what l,tlle we have lelt--but the
less we have, The less trouble we have in
taking care OF it, but with all this, We
will be content, knowing that there are
thousands of others in The same fix.
Captain, it makes me feel sad 10 look
around, aud find so many missing. Go
d, no more looks as it use to do. It seems
strange that she should pass through ma
ny hard battles, and be SO fortunate, and
here, after two long years. meet with such
IA heavy loss But we ieel proud, those
of us who are lett, to know that Co. D
with the other companies Of the l5Lh.
have done their duty. Every man, Il
think, stood up manully, that too, in
such place as we never was before. b {
| must be brief with this, AS am not in
a very gotd condition for writing thi,
morning. Was | at home. or any place
out of the army, | would consider mysel
unable to be out of bed. have, for the
last few days, been stopping with Dr..
Kelly, at private house, being en- ely
unable to he out of bed. but returned to
the camp again this morning, but still
feel very weak.
We have had most glorious rain yes
terday, which we greatly stood in need OF,
as we have had none for some four weeks.
Everthing WAS dust; but this morning
everything is beauilful-lhe rain seems
to be all over tor the p;esent.
AL is quset in front his morning, al
though the enemy seem to be there in
force. What they intend doing, none
can tell, Why lhey don't attack us be.
foe we get reiuforcements, is myster,
TO the wlsest. What a great pity we
could not have had few more troops. -
How nicely we could have cleaned them
out, but as it is, we still hold Chattanoo-
q, and are certain that they have been
AS badly whipped, if not worse then We
were.
l notice in the papers great tales about
the battle. Some have us whipped all to
death, whilst others claim victory. My
opinion in regard to the battle, is this:
that both psrliss had all they wanted. and
we have Chattanooga to boot, which
makes us the vip'ors SO far. and tie gen
sral Impression is, that we can hold III
against any forces that Bragg & Co. can
bring against US. All We wan; now. isl
some renlorcemebts, and then, think.
we will be getting in few days, then l
think our Southern brethren will have to
move little further South. My infor.
matin regarding our wounded men. is as
yet but little, The only ones here are
Worley and Straw, most of the
others have gone to Stevenson and Nash.
vile. Those that are here are getting
along as well as could be expected
Hahn, Hesser and Ellis. were left in the
enemies hands, but think they nav,
since been brought off. / wishI could
Zee after all the bows, and care for them, '