The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1863-06-05

her husband OF her SON should be hurt
But different state Of affairs arose. The
government awoke To a realization OF the
tact that tremendous rebellion had
been inOugursted. One that would re-
qrirc the whole material force of the gov
ernment, organized into the most thor
ough military system, to crush, and then
too 1t has realized the fact that it could
not be done in ninety days nor in six,
twelve or twcnty.lour months. hut now
after two years Of ofCXcrlion have been put
forth we fud still that there is giant re-
bclllon before US, a threatening aud iLso-
lent rebellion, yet, thaLk God, we have
been hammcring its toes and we have cur
tailed lis territory until il hus been
brought down so that we have every state
capital save six. (ApplaGse.)
I | b,licvc that when twelve months
have rolled around that number will have
materially diminished. am not here to
night my fellow citizens to give you any
fancy sketch OF the immediate close OF
this war for am not of that number VINO
be!ieye il con te immc diat,ly closed-l
believe that il will take u slow, stcudy cf-
fort andmust bc.porsstent and continuous
but that II will be losed,-that the re-.
belion will be put down--thOt il will be
put down 80 clearly with such striking
notice To the balance of the world, that
the world indeed will have learned les
son that will stand to the latest period of
time, have no doubt. Never ugain will
there be u rebellion Of this churactei--a
rebellion that now proclaims its mission
to be the up-huildng of human bondage,
and the destruction Of human liberty.
That il will DC crushed, there is no lin.
gering doubt in my mind. You will lie
down to night with a perfect confidence
that the sun will rise tomorrow morning
and just as confident do lie down in the
belief that this rebellion will b. crushed
out and that the old fug Of cur country
will fly again from every state capitol
dome IN the ccnlcdcrncy and from every
ship mast, and no one will dare to speak
rcyilirgly of it, and may God speed the
day. { Enthusiastic checrs.) Itmoy not
be unintcrcsting to you for me very brief
ly 10 call your attention to the unimpor-
tant part that the regiment which | had
tue honor to command, has taken in this
work. IL was in part re cruitcd from your
county and you must be interested some
what in il. The regiment b,g gan recruit
in the early part oI September, 1861, and
was gathered at Camp Mcclellan, near
Norwalk, Ohio il was there carried for
ward until lis number was about 960.
On the Gath Of January, 1861, under Or
ders from the Governor OF Ohio il pro-
ceedcd TO Western Nirginiu, at Grafton,
where it reported to General Rosccrans
who had his headquarters ut Wheeling,
Va. We took that number into Virginia
with MS. We went into cump at Grafton,
remained two weeks and the regiment
was then ordered forward over the A lie
ghany mountains to New Crock, joining
Gen. Lander, who then commanded the
department lying between the Potomac
aud the Alleghuny mountains. About
that time Gen. Jackson, better known as
Sioncwall" Jackson, was pushing n raid
in the neighborhood Of Bath Lnd Hun
cock in the Northern part of Virginia.
At New Creek we were placed under
command of Col. Cunning of the 9TH
Ohio, and in connection with other troops
marched TO Romncy, but owing to the
rise OF the river we were unable to pass
into the town although we marched 10 the
rivers edge. We again returned and
the next week were under the same COM
mundcr marched to MUorefcld aud there
had our first bush with thu enemy. We
thought 1t was considerable OF fight at
the time and | believe our friends at home
thought we acted very well--at least
none Of us run Tho truth is there was
/ NO ,,..,,h a.,.a. uI L..
believe ran 10 miles that afternoon out
OF Moorcfeld. We marched buck in the
next two days to New Creek. After our
return we were ordered to Grafton, where
we remained until the LIST Of April, 1862.
The regiment was then ordered buck over
the same road, passing through New
Creek and Cumberland, to the mouth Of
Green Spring run-;bencc TO Romney
crossing the river few miles north of
ROnney upon bridge which / believe
is undcstroyed. From thence under
command OF Gen Schenck the 55th went
to Moorfieid again, and there oncamped
short time, then marched up the South
branch Of the Potomac valley and reach
I'd Mcdowell, where Gen. Mlroy with n
slight force was resting in the immediate
presence Of Jackson and Johnson. by u
force ch we reached that point. We
were placed to support battery and
were not in that fight. Owing TO over
whelming numbers of the enemy Gen.
Schenck deemed il prudent to withdraw.
The retreat began Gbout 2 o'clock in the
morning, the enemy pursuing. OuHtorce
| fell back-the b5th having the post Of
honor, covering the retrcat-we fell
back occasionally fighting the enemy un-
til we reached Franklin and there were
engaged in constant fighting with him for
two days, not at short range, but 0s skir-
mishers and at artillery range, when the
enemy withdrew. At that point we pass
cd under the command of Maj .-GeD. Free
mont. There we had our first taste OF
what may be called short rations, for
when | tell you that we were five d0ys
without bread, having fresh meat without
salt, you mSy understand that it was pref
ty close living but we went through il
without grumbling. OF course sickness
followed-upon being supplied we were
ordered 10 march from there across the
Shenandoah Mountains to aid in the dri-
wing back of Jackson, who was pushing
Banks out OF the Shenandoah valley.
We were put in march on Sunday morn
lug, of course, aud continued marching
back to Petersburg and Moorfeld, thence
over the Shenandoah Mountains and fol-
lowed Jackson up the yalley--becSus
we fell upon his rear at Stuusburg and
passed up the valley fighting daily-he
burning bridges after him aud Gen, FREE