Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-01-15
From the lI3th Ohio.
HosPIrAL DEPARrMlKr, ll3rH REa'r Q: Y. II
, MULDRow's HILL, Jan, 8, 1869.


HosPITAL DEPARTMENT, 1l3rH REo'T o. v. II
. MuLDRow's Hull, Jan, 9, 1869.
FRIrsp ilrnAs,- Thinking yourself s51
the many other friends Of the ll3th may de-
slre to hear from "a In our wanderings through
Dixie. will attempt, Notwithstanding surround
Ing difficulties, TO write you few lines.
I was len on duty 10 the hospital at Camp
zlnesvllle, and did not join the regiment until
within an hour Of their marching from Louis
vile for this place--ihe present headquarters
Of tho regiment. | could not Judge of the
camp At Louisville, but the boys were well
pleased with IL, and think II all Kentucky 10
like II, they will be gratiAed. Our situation
here is not very desirable, Il being not only O
dangerous place, but q barren. inhospitable re.
glon. II 10 q point on the Louisville and Nash
Vile railroad, about thlrty-fve mIles from the
former place. Here Morgan, in his late visit
to this part Of Kentucky, burned bridge and
captured the 9lst Illinois regiment. The
bridge is being rebuilt, but it will take some
time to finish It, as II is over 500 feet 10 length
and 30 feet In hight. II is understood that the
railroad communication from Elizabethto WI
eight miles south of hereto Nashville is un-
broken, end We have observed within the last
two days vast number of Surgeons passing
on their way 10 the battlefield, and among
them the Surgeon. Generals of Ohio and Wis.
consin. May they do much to alleviate the
sufferings of our wounded and dying.
OF our medical stsff, consisting Of Surgeons
Black and Harlon, too much cannot be said In
praise Of them, for their untiring efforts In be-
half of the click Of the regiment. One item
with regard to this will establish IL, and secure
respect for them wherever known. During the
four months we have been In the regiment, Of
ell the cases reported to them--and many were
serious and complicated d-they have lost but
one, and for the three months ending with Dec.
let, out of fourteen hundred and sixty -four re-
ported alex, not one died. We think wo can
challenge any regiment TO furnish such record.
There are but few sick now, and the boys are
10 good splrIts, and II Jonnle Morgan visits Us,
he will meot with warm reception. We are
willing to hght, but We feel that our efforts
to suppress the rebellion are In great measure
countersc.ed by the fanaticism shat reigns In
high places. But We do not regret the step
we have taken, for We love our country--we
love our dear old flag, under whose silken folds
ali our lives have been blessed and protected
we love our American liberties--we love our
Eagle emblem, in whose bosom rankles the
tFsitorous arrow, whose plumsgs 10 stained red
with blood.
Beautiful country! 10 uhose b som We have
gsoSG up tree and independent, amid whose
hills aud wales, and by whose silver waters we
have grown up into nobler, better ideas, have
become possessed Of more extended knowledge
aud Of higher truths than elsewhere II was pos
siole-how we do love thee Beautiful couu
try now desecrsted BY those who had Sotn thee
Allegiance, lhy fair banner stained from the
feo1lens streams OF Secession and Abolition
who would not take Op arms In defense OF thee
When will a stsF be born from The dark OF thif
aDguish, a star chat shall be pufsuvant of the
coming light2 May II be coon. Z"
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