Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1864-04-20
Cur 9rmg CurrtspoROtntt.
From the Second Ohio.

GRAYsvrLLE. Ga. March 81, 1854.
Ed UNION When I wrote You concern
ing the reception of the 66th Ohio at Urbana
I had no intention OF provoking a con'ro7er
sv between members Of that regiment anC
myself; my reasons for writing gave then
and ii Is not necessary to repeat them now
( Il is needless for me ts say that did not eE
pecr nor request an answer from any one
( But IN your last issue I noticed an articl,
/ from lie 6sh. sigued N A h. crisicizing my
( letter and denounti1g me as a slanaerer.
also received a copy Of an Ohio paper o
Marcl 24-n, Containing a communication
signed D n. Arbaw. 10 which I am stigma
ized as defsmer, and accused of being
ignorant malicious jealous, impertin-
ent, and a 'cousummate fool saying moth
ing Of being lazy, a dishonest writer, &c
I [ did not at first intend to notice this attack
upon myself but on deliberation came to
the conclusion that it was due to my honor
iifuoihing else, to try to defend myself from
such a long list OF unmerited, ar d in my opin
ion. ungentemanly impulations; unmerited
because I relrained from personalities in my
ierrnrr letter, and uagentlemanly for the sim
pie reason that no gentleman would use such
language S. much for preface.
In the FIRST place viii STATE that I do not
retract single word of my first letter, for I
took pains to conform strictly to the truth.
and did not let passion jealousy or ignorance
swerye me therehom Irepcatediygtated IN
my first letter that I did not intend to say
anything about the campaigns in Virginia ia
which the 66 took part. On the contrary
I confined myself to their do;ngs while at
tached to the military division of the Missis-
sippi, previous to their rs-enlislment as vet
Grams. Consequently I can not see the OBJ
ject Of D. n. a. in iwitting me with my ig-
norance Of the campaigns in Virginia, and
locations OF the numerous rivers and streams
! he mentions. He includes the whole west.
ern army among the wonderfully ignoranL
l acknowledged that as far as seeing is con
cerned I do not know nearly as much as D
n. Arbaw, from the fact that 1 have nevei
marched aud countermaIcbed over its sacred
soil as much as he 1a5ly has BuJ hac
the homer to belong to the drst Potomac ar
my that ever had an existance, and was with
1t through It's first campaign, while my frienc
of the 66th was yet a citizen. Consequently
/ 1 know some little about it from observation
and quite enough from careful study Of the
geography and topography of the country tt
unders,aud thai neither the Rappalannock
IRaidsr nor B 3 Run empjies into the Poto
mac At all
D. II A terms Lockout Noun ain you
I gresi scarecrow. Le. the grea' scarecrow o
the Cumberland Amy. He does not c'nsid
er ,asr 5hi- army Was at that time reduced o
10000 .H uanbers by a battle, in which ev
pr, man was killed, wounded, or rakeu prs
onrr: suify ring under is first and Dost terri
ble reverse, hemmed IN by force three time
a. large, efiectuaIlJ cui of from its base q
supplies, by the enemy's occupation Of thi
same Lookout Mountain. too lew in number
e. relieve ourselves. It was a stern, uncom
promising, unmoyeable barrier, aud but 10
rnely assistance would have compelled tn
evacuation Of Chattanooga. | distinctly re
NJ mJer cveHy thing connected with the &C
ru, auou oi Lookou, by the national troop.
TO winch D y. A is kind enough to call m
attyuuun. except the tact that the Goth wen
20 The top OF the mountain. know, and s
does no. that they did not GO to the top, an
I alro know that the front line Of breast
works which they held, and behind whic
they were protected all night Of the 24th {
November 1868. were fully five hundre
wards in the rear of where the fight was rag
Ing, between a part OF the lst brigade, lst di
vioion, I4lh corps, and the 3lst Iowa on on
si,ie. and the rebels on the other; and fui
thermore I know that have the words {
at least twenty of the Goth that they weT
not at any time engaged on the mountain
men who visited our regiment the next mol
nlng. men who had been with the 66th q
the time. and men who should know. Is
not conclusive that the regiment did not fiji
a shot on Lookout Mountain2 I would NJ
repeat this only to defend myself from tt
: charge of lalsehood and defamy.
D.N. A. thinks it is to my discredit that
know little Of what am speaking about.
suppose he refers to my speaking Of the el
gagement between Longstreet and Hook
near Kelly's Ferry. did not ssy the fgI
took place at Kely's Ferry. I said nea
Plss,s read aright, ny 66th friend You -