Charles City intelligencer., 1864-07-07
From the 9th Iowa Infantry.


Near Moscow, TENN, June IS, 1864.
DEAR HnpRErH Another move on
the chess board Of strategy finds us
encamped near Moscow, Tennessee.
On the 23d inst we received four
months pay, bringing our pay up tc
May lst. Orders were then received
10 store oil surplus clothing. baggage
and camp equipage, and prepare ia
march at 6 o'clock tho next morning
Our boys were busy all day. prepar.
ing for the march. and sending their
surplus "grcen-backs home to their
friends. At an early hour on the
morning of the Gath our tents were
struck and we marched to the Charles.
ton depot where we took the cars and
were soon off for the country. At one
o'clock P. NJ. wo stopped near Wolf riv
er, about three miles west of Moscow
The train could 60 no further, as the
bridge over this stream had been par.
TALLY destroyed by Forrest when he
chased Sturgis through hero on the
first of the month. The bridge is
now being repaired, and will soon be
ready for the train to cross. 1t seems
to be the intention OF the Government
to open this road through to Corinth
and we hope it will continue on till
a junction is formed with Shcrman's
army. This will be good policy, even
if more men have to be called into the
| army. Or, as our friend Winfield
would say, let Lincoln draft.
We as soldiers love our country, ant
we love the true men at home but w
have no respect for the miserable
traitors and towards, who arc pre-
tending to be loyal, but whose princi
pies and actions prove that they ART
devoid of patriotism. and, like Apol
lion, seek some weak.mindcd man o.
boy or old woman whose mind the,
may poison with their notions of slav
cry, constitutionalism and diabolism
These arc the men on whom the bat,
of the national armies rest, and
When war is O. 'er and victory won,
When soldiers true and loyal como,
Then will treason's ignorant host
Il Bow down to earth and smite the dust (;
Then they'll call for mountains high
To hide their faces from the sky
And from our Abraham's army.
These traitors to their God an,
country should be drafted and put i
the ranks of the Union army where the.
may become Americsnized wher
they may learn the true principles o
national freedom. 1t is astonishing I,
know that there are such men in tn
Northern States. They remind me o
that heather nation where the younj
son 10 taught to smite his mother wit
. club. Tho Copperheads Of tn
North have lived, and are still livinl
under the protection of our gloriou
old Gag. They have reared familie
and accumulated wealth. have enjoy
ed the immunities and blessings q
this Heaven-favored and glorious Go,
ernment from their infancy to tn
present time, and now, like tho he.
then child, they would strike thei
mother With a club! Shame on tn
political knaves the nation killers
the blind Simpsons the traficers i
human flesh |! Better for them if the
had never been born. But there
yet one chance for their temporal an
political salvation. Let them joi
the army. march to Dixie, face tn
front, and fix their eyes upon the M
tion's emblem which is hoisted every
where by Uncle Sans legions. LIE
them look to freedoms emblem eve
as the Israelites looked to the braze
. serpent, and DO healed. Let the Coz
, perhead sneaks repent, join the army
and do works meet for repentance.
The troops here will probably NOV
in a few days. Lieut.. Rupe is sti
acting Adjutant of the 9th. Capt
Slocum is again in command of th
Company. Both gentlemen wish t
be remembered to you.
! Truly yours,
| GEORGE.