The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1864-07-19
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, DEAR STANDAID: ar
.ill Thinking Of themany reader
\ whose eager eyes CLEAN yesir'pagcs cv
4 cry week, for intelligence from the lov
Z ed ones at the seat of war, I feel inter
ested to contribute a. fraction, if'posyi
ble,Tto that pleasing qualification int
which enters so many Of the warmes
and tenderest associations Of human
existence. With the soldier in his en-
trenchments,i on picket duty or before
the cannon's mouth and in the charge
of battle, human ijts seems but atritiine
event, all given over into the hands O
a wild, desperate and mereiless enthusi
asm. AT home, the genius of hope
| presides in every household where the
vacant seat of a dear soldier is found
and mingling sympathies with kindred
inspirations do, and will go out as ear
nest angel prayers for the cherished
ones chained to the fate and destiny OF
war. 'aairi " nAf lnoHi
1t is altogether well and wise that
distance intervenes, sometimes think,
between home and war, and that
"where ignorance is bliss tits folly to
be wise," since home solicitudes could
only be aggravated in witnessing woes
they could n OF alleviate. J,y gss
But kind friends if so inclined, it wo'd
not do to indulge in a melancholy sort
of phylosophyzing over the sober and
solemn events oyershadowing our land
little time longer, Only be wisely
patient, and, and the record Of human
destiny and human events will be open
ed on a new page, no; ona new book,
upon whose fair pages will be spread
out the complete history of our nations
purgation and reorganization. The
fallen brave in our cruel battles, will in
due time become the most substantial
monuments ofour nations glory and
perpetuity. = i,..- I ",'i
On the 5th day of May, the 9th ar
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the Rapidan, after several days march
from Annapolis. I'm advance Of our
crossing that river, we heard the boom
ing of the cannon in the distance for
the first time.u But long before night
when safely across, and joined with the
9th corps, the grand series of battles in
this campaign was fairly inaugurated,
The public Prints have, been your
record, and kept you sufficiently posted
as to the general events since.that time
to the present. But as to the 9th corps
if | can Judge correctly from the few
papers / have seen, there has been but
little notice taken of them. The first
Mich. SIS, is connected with this corps
as you all know, and Of course in com
mon with many others, / feel an identi-
ty of interest in her glory or shame
In the many hard conflicts in which this
brave corps have been engaged, iftherc
has been no mention made of her bold
and daring qualities, there is a reason
for it. / see the New York Herald is
specially cautious of all favorable men,
ton of the 9th army corps. And this,
simply because it has not been of the
old Army of the Potomac stripe of
things. You know the 9th corps has
been sort of western "wide-awake"
in this war on the whole, and Burnside
feels at home wherever the Administra-
ton may happen TO- place him, no mat
ter if in Ohio, Tennessee, OF. on the old
grave pits of Nc Clellan in Virginia, it
is all the same to him. If there is q
chance to fight he goes in with will.
For his bold and daring genius, he
is of course hated and despised by trai-
tors and towards. AS an instance of
this, only three days sine the I'd corps
was ordered to make stand, and at
the proper order, make charge on the
defenoes of Re.ersburg and axe the
city. That corps utterly refused to
make the charge, deeming it impracti-
cable and impossible. sLe rsh
At this juncturc, it is stated that
Burnside came forward and said, "the
services ofthc 9th corps are eheerhlly
rendered with some hopes Of success"
This is the man and the genius Of
the 9th army corps, and the very one
that some certain drones and army buz
yards desire to cast into the shades of
,obscurity. For such reasons his corps
has been but little Enotieed. And the
hardest fighting of the campaign with
out doubt, has fallen to the lot ofthe 9th
and 9th corpse -erI'io 'iT
From the crossilG of the Rapidan on
May 5th to this present date, ] think
there has not been a single day but
what some Kind of fighting has been
going on. Ifnot pitched battle in
which many Of our brave boys have
fallen, picket and skirlnish firing have
most fearfhlly thinned out our number
beyond all calculation, and presented