The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1863-05-21
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q = = NAY 10. 1868.

/. BAY 10, 1868.
EDITOns GAZETTE: Having noticed a
letter bublislled ia the Ohio Eagle oi
April Both. PatporliDg to be written BY
soldier of Company F, lst o. v. c, to
his father. in which the writer appears to
be very much dissa!isfed with the con.
duct Of the war, and also states Ihat thou
sands Of others ars with him 10 senti.
msnt. naming sergeahls sic aud Jacob
Kubns. as entertaining The sen timents
contsined in his letter. and having had
frequent conversations with the former
and judging the latter by his soldierly
bearing and the high terms in which his
officers always spoke of him, very much
doubted the ruth Of the statements made
BY "Wil," (as he subscribed himself.)
l have in my possession letter from
Capt. Pickering; also one iIom Sergeant
Stiff, 1f which the following is an exlrac,
and will satisfy any one who will take the
pains 10 read them, Of The loyalty Of Stiff
and Kuhns. and The lying qualities Of
"Wnl." et -l .
HEADQUARTERS, Co. F, lst O. V. CT
LaveIgne, Tenn, May 0, 1868. I
Mr.. A. p. AsnBRooK:
- \ - ! was much
sstonished to learn that these was but.
trrnut in~my Company Of SO deep dye;
{ Here the Captain names The writer Of the
famous letter. although learned some
time ago that he had received letter
from his father, in which Henry Musser
sent him word that lie had better come
home and shear sheep for bin than stay
and fight in this abolition war. That the
war was for nothing else than 10 free the
negroes. | am sorry that he has impli
Gated Samuel Stiff, who is my Orderly
Sergeant, and Jacob Kuhhs, third Ser
geant--lwo moh who have the met.le 10
them OF tbs righ, jingle. They have new.
el shrunk from duty, no ma ter how haz
ardous the undertaking, whilst the above
named, OH writer Of the letter,) nearly
always manages 10 be sick at the time OF
a fight. Az least such was the case at
he time Of tue Stone River and Perry.
vile balties.
lie says in his letter that there are
thousands of others 10 the same 6x that
he isih. 1fsdch there are do not know
them. l certainly have no others in my
Company. Men i'd the army who write
such f4sehoods homs are encouraged to
Do SO BY Coop heads at home, and lhty
WHO write them are coSards here. No
man who has the m;ttl4 of the right lin
gle would ever think Of writing such lot.
ters. This morning lie was arrested by
order oI Gen Seadman. How he got
Information Of the letterI know not =
Men who can write such base falls hoods
nom- should not be allowed to have their
literty in ths army, l am. sure such
reasonable doctrines would never have
entered the mind of soldier had lhev no
become discouraged BY letters from Cop
prrheads at home. But the tue sodie,
has not become discouraged. 1t is only
the cowards. No man who has been il
the ls owe and learned the Workings
Of the Institutions Of tn South would
ever have thopghtof writing such treas
enable dbc,tine home Lad lie not bse en-
outraged in his cowardice by cowa' dl,
C"pper at hom". sergeant Stiff anC
Kuhns have teen Urging ne 10 write I,
YOU that they may b. sci lig',t before hri
friends al home - that their friends ma,
know that they do not shrink from de
tending their conntry in this hour of dan
ger. To day, roll>oaIl read the lete
from The Eagle and asked he boys ifan,
Of them bad ever heard any che-fing 10
jeff Davis. They al answered DO, an
said they never iuIegded to hear it tn,
second lims here or a, home.
T. PICKERING