The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-07-21
Correspondence of the Telegraph.
/ the 89th Wis. Goo day. Regiment.

CHRIsTIAN CoMMIssION Rooms,
MEMPRIs, Tenn, July l3. 1864.
Dear Telegraph:-It is very agreeable for a
soldier to occasionally get out of the usual rOu-
tine of camp duties, and see something new-get
out into the country, and breathe the fresh air.
So, few are occasionally pleased to have our
names read as a detail for train guard. on the II
r. Yesterday morning. at five o'clock, six OF us
star ted, having days ratious and forty rounds
of cartridge. with an equal nuuber from each of
the other companies, all under command OF Capt.
Chamberlain. for the depot of the Memphis Il
Charleston Railroad. Arriving there, we found
the train was not to leave till eight clock, so
we stacked arms and broke ranks, Over the
ticket office is painted the names OF the places
where the cars run, and almost every place there
have been hard fought battles, and the list ends
with Charleston, which, God Grant may soon be
ours There are large cotton warehouses, and
places which presume were slave marts, around
the depot, and presume an immense business
was done on the road before the war, The cars
and Iunning stock are marked u. S. Military L
r. At eight we got ON top the cars and proceed.
ed at a rapid rate into the country. The second
place at which we stopped was Germantown
where is stationed brigade of cavalry; there was
here also, watering establishment by
SIN all engine, and furnishing good water. Laay
cite, the next station OF importance. was once
something OF village, but, as with all the places
on the road It is now nothing but ruins, Moscow
will be remembered by some of your readers, as
one of the battefeIds. The SD was eDcamped
there some time, and with the killed and those who
have died from disease, there is at least hall
regiment buried there; far from home and dear
n tAEyG OH
tear over their graves, but may never be per-
mitIed We here became acquainted with the
peculiar whlzZ made by the mimic ball Some
returned guards were discharglug their pieces in
the bank Of the fort, when one of them shooting
over the bullet came directly over our heads
with that peculiar noise somewhat resembling
the whzZIng of dozen rattlesnakes-Only more
so. | think regimental voley of them would
be apt TO make fellow look low The fort is
pretty substantial fertilization, and has some
pieces OF artillery. All along the road, at short
intervals, are palisades stockades, as places of
re uge in cases OF necessity. Arriving at La
Grange as miles from Memphis, we found good
many houses still standing but inhabited by Il
very few citizens, 1t must have been place of
considerable Importance. A fne college builds
ing is located on a hill overlooking the town
Near Memphis, aud at intervals aloug the road
were splendid mansions, butt In imposing style,
and evidently at immense cost. am told many
of the plantations contained from $50 to 1860 land
upwardJ acres; and force of from one hundred
to five hundt ed slaves required to work them.
But o~ everything is laid wsste and show but
| toe plainly the devastating hand OF war. a lew
| small fields of cotton. com and grain are seen.
Some wheat looked tho it had been in the
shock a month 1t seems pity, when an acre Of
| first rate cotton is worth thousand dollars to
see hundreds of acres that were once under cul-
tivation now lying idle.
In about an hour, we were ready to start back
| az ain. We had pretty dusty time coming back.
Regiments and detachments of troops, mostly
cavalry, are stationed al along the route; some
OF them loo days men, Nothing was seen of 90
| rfHas or bushwhackers. We were almost suffo
Gated with dust, in some places, on our march
back to camp