Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1863-04-23

! 0l0CG i lhoe WIOaC yOus COlOutl v %
lvoorhes has been compelled TO resign
lthe Coloneley Of the s9nd regiment o.
IV. l.. owing TO bleeding ct the lungs.
| The health Of the 9and is not as good
as could be desired. Some .25 or so
Of the poor fellows hate died since We
came hers, aud ill graves in an eneny's
country. There q something mex
pressibiy sad in ihe burial OF . soldier.
50 far from home. and among strangers
In q strange land. The bodies have
been deposited in The graveyard here,
much against the wishes Of the rebels
who live here. One she devil allowed
that when we left Carthage. they would
have to dig the bodies, up and pitch
them into the river, (the Cumberland. J
Seeessionism makes she devils oat Of
women. They are worse, ten times
fover, than the mea. Piesysne Bs:ssz
is the only Yankee General who ster
knew how to handle the Wenehes and
curb them in.
The boys Of the s6th are all well and
tough as bears. They are proof against
all the ills that flesh is heir TO. Lieut..
Col. Duval is in command of the Reg
iment, Col. Andrews being away on
detached duty. B.
MURFREEsBoRo, Tenn. April 1. '6S.
Mr.. MISUNDERSTANDING some
thing concerning the welfare Of the
Gallia boys, would be Of interest to
some Of the readers Of your worthy
paper. The boys from Galia are, gen.
orally speaking, in good health and
spirits. In fact, this whole command is
in better health than it has been for
months past, Notwithstanding the car.
mage that surrounds Us. The weather
is pleasant and nice, have had but little
rain for the past month or so, and was
it not for the fences being burnt and
the ground torn up by the develish
Yankees! it would look Ike citizens
might have a sight for their lives. but.
as they say, the Yankees have played
the devil in general; hence no crops
can be raised this season, and undoubt-
edly citizens will suffer the conse-
queuces, though cannot say they are
to be pitied in the least, for they ap-
pear as hostile to the Government as
ever. They feel dissatisfied. SO long
as they are ID the hands of Yankees,
for they know we are pretty clever
set Of fellows at the contest. General
James s. Negley returned to his COM
maud few days since, having been
home on firlough. Since his return.
has been promoted from Brigadier Gen
eral to Major General. for meritorious
conduct on the battlefield at Ste Rig-
er. We = sol' md,
congratuI Dis
late promon.-. -iS4ited
it. He is man -. esteemed by
all who know him, as being soldier
and a gentleman in every sense OF the
word. The 18th Ohio has been under
his command since September Is. 1859,
and have the first time yet to hear
aught against him, either by officers or
privates, though when we were first
put under General Negley's command
we had lost almost all confidence in any
officer that might chance to be put
over us; being so mortified at the dis
n:issal of General Turcbin, then our
Brigade commander, but have now cast
all prejudice and malice aside, learning
that General Turchin has since been re-
stored to command and assigned to du-
ty in this department. Now all we ask
is to give us General Turchin as our
Brigade commander and Major Gene
raj Negley Division commander, and !
have good reasons to believe this privi-
| lege will be granted Us. II it should
be the Southern Confed is gone up.
Yours, DC.
Lieut.. L. D. CARTER,
18th Reg't o. V. I.