The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-06-25

Enemy, Rock Mountain, Cobb County, Ca
10Th lewa Veteran Volunteer Infantry, Sd
Brigade, eth Division, 18th Army
Corps, biyouaced in the Field.
Monday, P. NJ June IA, 1884
The Sd and 4th divisions Of the 18th
army corps. under Major Gen. Blair, left
Clifton, Tenn, on the 10Th of May last,
via Pulaski, Tenn, and Huntsville, Ala,
and arrived at Decatur on the eth of
May, when we crossed the Tennessee
river on pontoon bridge. Gen. Mat
thias, who had been in command at that
place, on account Of his wound, had jus,
resigned and left for hon1e. On the day
of our arrival Gen. Croker also rendered
his resignation on account of ill-health,
and understand it has been accepted
His loss is deeply regretted by the army.
Gen. Gresham, who is deservedly popu-
ar, then took command of our division
Lieut.. Col. Hedrick left at Huntsville for
the National Convention at Baltimore,
and Major Pomutz was there detailed as
Provost Marshal General on Gen. Blair's
staff, and Capt. Miller as Assistant. Col.
Belknap is the only field officer left with
the regiment. Marching without tents,
but three teams to regiment. through
swamps, and sand, rain and mud, through
q densely timbered country, over the most
mountainous regions of Alabama and
Georgia, with the broiling sun pouring
down upon US, wading rivers and rivulets.
sometimes as many as FIVE in one day.
we arrived at Rome, and ON the 9Th join
ed Gen. McPherson's command at Ack-
worth, a station on the railroad leading to
Atlanta, where Gen. Sherman then had
bis headquarters. We had made march
of over three hundred miles, over the
toughest and most God -forsaken country
I have yet seen in the South in twenty
three days. march which, for its rapid
ity, has not its parallel in the annals Of
the war. We met with few casualties-
none in our division--in which, notwith-
standing the hardships of the campaign.
even the new recruits are doing WE'LL
We crossed part of the Lookout"
range of mountains and Gland Noun
tain" in Alabama, near which Col. Long,
commanding our cavalry force with the
expedition, numbering about 2,40O. had
fight with Roddy and rebel force of
1000, whipping him badly and capturing
Lieut.. Colonel and about thirty other
prisoners.
Guerrillas occasionally fred upon our
troops from the mountains, and were
either killed. captured or driven off,
Roddy, though we could hear Of him hang
ing upon our rear, did not trouble Us any
more on the route. The people in the
barren region through which we passed,
are generally stupid, ignorant and scanti-
~ supplied with even the common
cessaries of life. / even o ..sst ne
lies without shoee law whole tami
little VILE :. and stockings in one
-se in Georgia.
The prevailing religion is Cumberland
Presbyterian and Methodist. We passed
one smelling furnace in Tennessee and
another in Georgia, around both Of which
were large quantities of pig iron.
The forests abound in hogs and buck
CHERRY bushes; in the mountains, per.
simmon; apple and peach trees are Gov
cred with fruit. Corn, wheat, rye ant
oats look we'll for the South. / saw nj
cotton planted except two little patches
and but one cotton factory on = stream
called "Carousing Creek" A little vii
lage had grown up around it; an old mai
was in charge, and lot of factory girl
crowded around to see the ,."Yanks. p
Want of time spoils my romance of rosy
checked, surly.haired maid, seen "by til
light of the moon" at little village, wher,
the docr-yard was fragrant with honey
suckles-and the maid, and waning moo1
and fragrant flowers are now almost for
gotten in the sight Of buttsrnuts jus
across the feld At the base and in th
gorges Of Rock Mountain, and in listen
ing to the sharp crash Of muskets an,
booming of Parrot guns, from the bate
ries Of that old splutsering DutehmAn
Osterhaus, on our right.
The mountain streams and ssbsbblin,
brooks" rolling over gravelly beds, abouns
In trout, and reminds one Of the Greer
Nountaia 6tats. The cavalry II Teanes
sss, who ars now in oar army, are yer,
bitter against their old nSlehbors, ant
sonssqssatly1 eany their vengeance b.
yoad ~ ruls 4 eivilissd sarhsA n
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