The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-10-14
tPor the Perrysbufg Journal.
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inquired of in relation 10 the feeling Of the citi-
Eens Of East Tennessee that deem 1t proper TO
condensc into brief article for your paper, few
items, from my own observa alton, those questions
The Tooth o. V. |. went out from Toledo to Ken
tucky, about one thousand strong, as fine body
Of men, aud as well oficered-with a single ex-
ccption-- probably, as any regiment that ever
went from Ohio as volunteers. From the time
we arrived at Lexington Kentucky, until we left
that State we were almost constantly drilling, un-
der the supervision Of our excellent brigade com.
mandcr, Colonel s. A. Gilbert of the 43th o. V. I.
am happy TO state, for tho satisfaction Of those
having friends in the regiment, that, though
there have been occasional Sigh. rupturcs among
the officers occasoned, chiefly, by the miscon-
duct Of Our forster commanding ofhcer-therc has
been almost uninterrupted harmony and accord
among incn and officers in the regiment. There
has bedh from the first, cheerful submission to
military law and discipline, that has helped to
make the regiment, as IL now is, one Of the best
drilled and disciplined regiments in the field.
Colonel Scvin is the same urbalc, Christian gen
teman ever, and unites to these social virtues,
the reputation, among his superior oficersy of
pains-t taking, vigorous and efficient commander.
The regiment now numbers-present and absent
about eight hundred men. About two hundred
and fifty Of them are prisoners about the same
number absent detailed and sick, and there
arc about three hundred present for duty. Ifthey
shall all do well in the day of trial as did the
three hundred under Lieutenant Colonel Hayes, at
Big Limestone, Tennessee, Northwestern Ohio will
! not have occasion to blush for the Tooth.
The column that went into East Tennessee, un-
Il
marching order, would huvo reached something
over twenty three miles. have heard many Off
GERS, from different parts Of the Federal army, say
that such a march had not been made in the United
States before, with so little struggling. The army
averaged eighteen miles day, when marching,
crossing mountains furdng streams, and carrying
their knapsacks, hayersaCks, canteens, cartridge
boxcs-with sixty rounds of Ammunition rifles,
and one extra pair of shoes, All this the men car
rcd, and chcerfuly tocd on, animated with the
hope of delivering East Tennessee from her op-
prcssors. From the time We entered the State un-
ill we reached our respective places on the line Of
the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad, our
march was continual ovation, increasing in intel
lgent interest and substantial merit, to the end
Old men, and women old aud young, and children
Aocked to the road on which we marched, with ev
cry conceivable manifestation of enthusiastic and
extrayagant joy. They sang, and shouted, and
praised God, One very old lady, lifting up her
hands and eyes to Heaven, said: "Now, Col be
praised, we are free at lastl"
The suficrings of the loyal people of East Ten
nessec, under Confederate nis-rule, have been
simply terrible. The world will hardly believe
the story, it it is ever told--and it can scarce be
told. To understand it, person must have been
there, and have the people and their country,
and heye heard their story from themselves. !
. give one instance:
! Two men of the uame of Dunn-father aud SOIL
living near Campbell Station, on the East Ten
; nessce and Virginia Railroad, were known to be
loyal to the Government under which they had
lived happily for many years, and were known tc
have expressed hope that the State would NOT
secedo. They were quiet, unassuming, humble
! men. About the middle of the month of Decem
! Der, 1861, they were visited near midnight, by
! man said to be a Captain in the 4th Alabama Cav
! airy Regiment, who, assisted by two neighbors o
the Dunns, and two negroes, took father and sor
) some five hundred yards from their house, wher,
they made the negroes fog them most terribly, al
the while taunting them with being abolition
ists," " Yankees" &c, and threatening to xii
them il they did not at once that they woult
! forever renouncc allegiance, in thought and decd
! to the Lincoln Government To their lives
they finally consented to Take the oath" The,
were brought to Concord-a little town on the rail
road, midway between Knoxville and Loudon-
where the following oath was administered to then
Z and to two others
Do you solemnly swcarc be fore the holy Evan
] gest of Almighty God That you do now an,