The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-08-27
From the 18th Iows.
Moscow, TENN, Aug,

Moscow, TENN, Aug. Is, 1864.
FRIEND DUNHAM :-Isay friend, because
believe you are q friend TO any man who
honestly wears Federal Blne-1 presume
ing 70 your readers, AZ they are sprinkled
thickly all over the F1fst Congressional
District, from the boundaries of which
came out the 18th Regiment Iowa Infantry
One Hundred Day Volunteers. know
that : 100 day +" part sounds Itlxtc, but short
time as it seems. it has been long enough
70 finish the career of many brave boy,
and to train many others for more lengthy
If not more effective servtce-for though,
as regiment, we may never be engaged
on the bloody feid, there are many who
will yet, IN other reg! ments, fill the placeof
field officers havesall seen service, and orr
Colonel, Lieutenant-Co Colonel, and Major
have all been wounded in other fields Of
service, while nearly all of our officers have
seen q great deal OF hard service, some Of
them having been severely wounded on
such fields rs Shiloh and Donelson, while
many Of our -non-ccmmissioned officers
and privates have s'smelt the smoke and
blood of battle" in regiments now In the
front, still we are To-day men, and Assuch
will pr0Ue cur ability or disability to stand
Q more prOtrac.ed term. We arestill wait
ing and watching for the "Johnnies " 70
come and take Wolf River Bridge, and ii
they don't come we can't telpit, and if they
do come, perhaps they will take it, and
perhaps they cont. All We have to do IS
TO watch the bridge, cook our retions, and
take in horses and mules, Win fruit and
forage.
We have pretty good health, and but few
severe cases OF sickness. Company &c y
has lost four by death, ont OF eleven who
have died in the regiment. Otherwise our
Company Is as healthy as any III the regi-
ment, and no Captain along the line gives
more heed to the comfort and health Of his
men than Captain crowder. The last two
deaths in Co. @ - were Charles 8. Blake,
Of Mortified, Des Moines county, who
died at Overton Hospital, Memphis, on the
18th ult., Of typhoid fever, and Thornton
s. King, Of New Boston, Lee county, lows,
At Adams Hospital, about the 9Th inst, OF
rheumatic fever,
term, and some Of the boys are beginning
to get anxious as to when We will be mus
tered out, rumors being rife as TO keeping
as longer or shorter period over our term.
think We will remain here till near the
end ofthe 100 days, and perhaps till the last
day, and be mustered out. For my own
part have not much expected to get home
before the middle or last of September
say two or three weeks after the expiration
of our term, and If our friends look for US
sooner they may be disappointed. How
ever, by the time you receive this, some
thing definite may be known.
Our boys still do . good deal Of Forging,
Company &c" was out yesterday, bring
ing In several horses, mules, wagons and
negroes, together with plenty Of ripe
peaches. Another party Event to milf
and brought In several barrels Of hour and
meal. No soldiers ever Jared better, or
lived finer than the 45th, and though wedo
have heavy picket and guard duty to do,
and don't have any :" wood house, or any
thine ~ that aOpf go 0v~s<
even though guerrillas are plenty and mus
quitoes not few. Neither hinder GOOD az
gestion, and seldom interfere with good.
sound sleep. In fact, we of the 18th are
gay cusses," and the natives of the coun-
try around say they used to think the TIN
but them To-day men down thar at Mos-
cow Is DEVILS" II was said that General
Washburn saw that we were q toksm9 regi-
ment, and sent Ms here, where wocould ox-
ercise our predictions in that way. and
that We have made good report, having
taken some 400 or 500 negroes, some 200
head Of horses and mules, several wagons,
> few guerrillas and cattle. sheep. grain,
fruit and poultry to our hearts content.
We have no report from the front vet,
but presume Gen. Smith will soon give IN
account Of himself, and We hope even bet
ter than before.
Since wiring the above learn that Cor
porai Dougherty, OF COMPANY" A." died 2
day or tive since, at the General Hospital,
in Memphis. think no was from Mt
Pleasant.
Yours till we get home, NJ.
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Whilethe season is passinF: during which
Our farmer friends are preparing their sup
plies Of pickles, it would be well to re,nem-
Der our friends in the ariay. There Is no
article more needed or moro beneficial to
the health Of the soldier than the various
kinds Of pickles in common use. Cucum-
bers. beets, tomatoes, onions, cabbage and
various other articles prepared In this way