Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-06-03
From the Cd Ohio Heavy Artillery.
STEVENSON, ALA.
May 2lst, 1864.

STEVENSON, ALA. [
May 2lst, 1864.
Ed. GAZETTE AS quite a number of
Delaware County boys are in the I'd Reg. o.
V. H. Artillery, at the request of a friend l
write to let you know our whereabouts Last
Wednesday all the Regiment excepting Co.
L, had arrived at Nashville, preparatory to
marching to the front. Company L marched
from Mumfordsville, KY. to Nashville with
the baggage train and on the road captured
20 guerrillas, whom they brought 10 safely
On Wednesday and Thursday we left Nash
vile for Chattanooga by rail. My Company,
/, left at o'clock p m., riding on the tops of
freight cars It was a beautiful moonlight
night, and the country, so lovely and fresh 10
its summer robe of verdure, interested me and
helped to keep me awake. And the wrecks
of ears 80 frequently seen on either side, tell
ing of the dastsrdly guerilla, and his midnight
attempts at wholesale murder, also helped to
keep me awake. At O'Clock we passed
Murfreesboro, and the bloody field of Stone
river. The stony river bed, the forts, the
long lines of earthwork and ditch were there,
as they looked to the heroes who so braveiy
withstoOd the enemy. / have a brother-in.
law there, bat could not stop to see him. As
the night advanced the boys lay dswn and
slept. At 3 o'clock we reached Elk river,
near Decherd Soon after crossing the river,
in a curve, in a cnt 25 feet deep our train met |
unoiher, which was coming at good speed. -
We ran forward, and u shocking scene met |
our ewes. The two cars next 10 the engine |
were filed with cattle, not one of which was
much injured. The next was platform car
loaded with sacks of shelIed corn. On the |
sacks lay nine of our Company and one of the
3Olh o. v. l., asleep The next car carried u
steamboat boiler, the weight of which i'm
PEELED the car forward so that it fell on the
sleeping men. Two were thrown to the
ground severely Injured. two more soon got
out but the remaining six we had to dig
,ut This took some time, and we found
bree of them dead, aud another morally
wounded. The names of the dead are
lanes Nesbit of Harrison co., Alexander Ed
Yards and Phillip w. Setter of Licking Co.,
1ysander j. Premier of Licking Go. died in
he afternoon. The wounded are Sergeant
lanes Try and Sergt. Melaucthou Witlieh of
Jrcleville, and Corporal Walter Hawley ofl
Asntabula Co. severely and WV Dice of
ut. Vernon, slightly. at 10 O'Clock we buried
he dead near the railroad track. 1t was a
olemn occasion as we gathered around the
raves of those who but last evening enjoyed
prospect of long life, but were now gone TO
he spirit land. How. quickly they haG been ,
allied away without the privilege of speak
ng a word or leaving a message from earth
= sleep to the sleep of death from the joys
nd ambitions, the labors and troubles Of
arth. to the judgment seat, and the uDspeak- q
BILE bliss and glory, or shame of the Eternal {
,orld We are lying here, awaiting the re-
loval of another wreck. Another collision
ccurred this morning in the mountains east
{ here, and some more were killed. But I ,
,ust close We don't know where we are
DING. Yours truly, ,
n. G, ALDRIoH,
I'd O. II. Artillery, Co. l.