The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1863-04-23
Army Correspondence
Letter from the lOlh Ohio Cavalry.
CAMP NEAR MURFRREsBoRo,l
April 18th, '63]

A6''cHSio W lOut
request, I have collected the whete with
10 write you a short history Of the 10Th
Cavalry. A brisf account Of the doiDgs
and mis- doihgs Of this Regiment may not
be entirely uninteresting to your readers,
AS Fairfield county is we'll represented in
Company A Of this regiment. | will
not bore your readers with a history Of
our organization and the many uuinter>
esting incidents that occurred during the
monotonous routine of daily duty in
Camps Chase. Zanesvil:e and Cleve.
land.
l shall pass over the history of iRe
organization Of the regiment, except it
be briefly to state that the regiment was
recruited in some thirty different coun.
ties. was organized at Camp Cleveland
on the lsI day Of February, and is well
"lficerrd, we'll mounted. and equipped and
ls composed of as good lighting material
as ever as made of Buckeye timber
We are &fmed with breech loading car.
bine,s Colts army revolterS and Queer
article 10 the line of cutlery com monty
denomiuated cavalry sabre but the
boys of the 10Th have dropped from their
lexicon, that woId so calculated 10 trine
10 mind, the romance Of knighthuod, and
have dubbed this ancient implement Of
warfare, the "chsess knife"
Our Battalion leh Camp Cleveland OH
the 81 day Of Match. and arrived at Gin e.
ciunati. on the 8 ult. We were soon
embarked aboard the Jacob Strader,''
b ,und for Nashville, via the Ohio and
Cumberland rivers. The boat was com
modlous. and both officers and privatrs
were lodged 10 comfortable STATE rooms,
Nothing OF any particular interest occur
red during the trip down. There is, how
ever one liule incident | must relate, as
a warning to patriouc young ladies', who
allow excessive love of their country,
Orderly sugg-Ss that it is excessive
love Tor The soldier boys, buIas a matter
"f cours"j d ny any su h imputaton, J
TO run away with their judgment Soon
after we left Cincinnati, ssveral of the
men were taken sick ono by an udIucky
fall ha / bone broken and it becam.
necessary TO establish hospital. As n
very na'ural consequence somebody mus
bs detailed 10 act as Hospital Seward
The attention Of the Major Commanding,
was directed TO al intelligent looking boy
Of about eighteen. There was some
thing about the appsarance Of tie youth
that indicated tie qusliGcs ions necessary
fpr the possession Of this I'm ortant Office
He was detailed Immediately. The
smooth, white cheek, the glossy. brown
hair, the sparkling black eyes OF the
young steward soon became the subject
Of considerable comne Mt, anoLg both Of
e ers and men. Vague rumors were
Ahoat that our steward was a-was a
we'll want say what he was. but (s)he
was not eligible 10 6reschssi The rumor
became a. settled belief, and the com
manding officer, in obedience TO gener
al order. prohibiting disguised femal 5
from entering The lines, reported the fact
to the authorities at Nashville. An ul1i
Ger was sent sb ,ard soon afIer we landed
tie slewrrd was arrested, and required TO
doG her soldier cloths and don tie more
o, coming habimenls of Til. softer sex -
1t was sudd-n transmogri6cainn the
youthful son of Mars, suddenly becam-
bushing Venus. and was sent by way
Of the Louisville Il Nashville R. R., to
Ohio. Altogether j! was a pleasant trip,
aud it will take the smoke Of IN psnya long
and bloody campaign TO eface from our
memores the happy remembrauces Of our
ride t Nashville.
We laii in camp near Nashville one
week, at which time we received an order
to march 10 "ths front" by way of the
Murfiees' orongh pike. We took the
road indicated by the guide, but couldn
see the pike II that is u specimen oil ,
sodt' ern pike, save me from their mud
roads. We encountered nothing on oul
road from Nashville to Mu frees borough
il except superahundance OF sacred
soil" in semi liquid state, varying
from one to three feet iu depth.
Since our arrival here, we have beer
enramped about one mile south Of Mur
reesborOugh. | have ho'lced 10 tn,
Cincinnati papers, different accounts o
lhe 6ght at Snow Hill, none Of which
mentions the 10th Ohio Cavalry as hav
ing been in thu fight. This is unjust =
rhe Commercials correspondent meutiun'
the f OF that "nur advance whipped th,
rebels three different TIMES. driving then
back into their very n,st." Blu, be for
gets to say that the 10th Ohio cavalry
was in the advdncs. II lorgsts 10 men
tiou tho important fact that Co., A
of th- Tynth. made three succes,fu CHAR
res. Notwithstanding the fact that tn,
Commercial makes no mention of it, IT,,
Tenth captured more exchaogeable priso
nerS than all the rest Of the Division
Co, A, # the Tenth being in the advance
was the frs, 10 meet the enemy, which
we done about twelve miles from Li5Arty
We drove ih.m h4ck about eight miles
B Hsre having drawn in all their picksts
making in all about o,e full company
they made a stand We waited Ions
enough 10 draw their Gre, when we char
r ged them at full speed. About tho tint
we lii into them. they gave US Q graIui