The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-07-16
FROM THE THIRTY.FIFTH.

following extract. from a private letter
from Lieut. Col Rothrock. dated, 'Di-
vision Hospital, near Vicksburv, Juue
pa, 1863.
Here l am, 10 hospital once more.
| returned to the regiment on the Is:
day Of May, not entirely recovered from
the terrible and protracted sickness thro'
which passed. You know the rule is
that the army generally 'is quiet,' aud
thought that with rest would soon
recover my shattered health, but On the
I'd day Of May we took up the line Of
that, | may say unparalleled march Of
2OG miles, and though the excitement
kept ne up until after ~e ceased storm.
ing the works, or until about the lst of
the month, sleeping between corn rows,
exposed to the heaviest dews ever saw.
and lying in line with the regiment and
eating IN a manner nothing but hard
crackers, was too much for me, and down
came with heavy chill followed by
prO,racted fever. have that broken
j HO"tscI Dut nave not bttE TIu Vi
diarrhoca since my first sickness, and
now, running SO long, it has assumed
chronic form and battles the skill of
all the physicians. The Division Sur
geou told me the day l came here
must, or in his opinion woult be COM
PEELED, to resign
"We have had man killed in our
regiment occasionally since the mcmora-
bic 22d Of May, but you were not ac,
qualnted with any Of them We have
been since that time, until within few
days, in the front, $50 yards from the
rebel works. Yesterday Tu,tle's divs.
ion, including our regiment, mov'd s
miles to the rcar-l suppose to meet the
enemy should they want to fight US there.
The cannonading is kept up almost con,
s'antIy in front. | have got 80 | don't
notice the discharge of cannon more
. than | use to the putting Of the steam
mill in Upton. We lave all sorts of ru-
mors from dcscrters, e whom there are
more or less every night but they gen
orally agree IN one thing, and that is,
that they arc about out Of provisions -
They say cur shells are doing them i'm.
mensc damage, and 10 fact our men in
front can see them carrying off the dead
and wounded We are conscious of one
thing, however, and that is, we have a
large army, numbering as near q. | can
get at it about 90 ,0OO effective men; and
there is not man among them but wha,
thinks We can whip all the rebels they
can pile up. When an army feels that
waya battle is half won before il is begun
81 have hig Cher and brighter hopes o
the entire overthrow of Rebellion, an,
that before long, than | have had sine
the dreadful realities of the first Blu
Run battle tingled in my ears | adm
they cant be starved out; have seen to
much corn growing to believe that.
build NY hopes on the fact that the
:, material for soldiers is utterly exhausted
y There amt an able bodied man b,
>, what Is in the service, excepting a f.
- nabobs who hired substitutes over 1
, for their conscri ption takes every M
under that age. | have seen in rel
, papers where as much as $4,000 W
y, off red for "A substitute over 10. VIII
!, an army reaches that point, that it cal
~ be recruited, it will soon whip itself.
needn't be fought much. Why even {
:. 35th regiment, which mustered in O.
~ men, if taken to the field to day wou
T. have in line not much over 400 men
shoot at the enemy, and it is not an c
ception. For everywhere we 90, the c
=, preston, "What big regiment :" "
=. our line is as long as tie Sth and T.
p, together. You ask, where are the m,
i, of them. You will find them in eve
n. hospital where we have been-many 8
j. detailed, a large number discharged, a
200 on the sick list here, and few i
Is in action | tell you the conscripti
N cant come too soon
ct We are sorry that it is so, but we
en- confident that it is the duty of the Lie
:, Colonel, to resign 1t will now ia
q long months for him to regain his heal
70 if he ever does, and if he STAYS longer
as the army, he will never recover.