The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1864-08-05
From the 144th Reg't.,
O. N. G.
Battles Of Monooacy Junction and
Stonebride.


stonebride.
M. Editor =
Having written nothing for your pa
per since left with the Marseilles Co.,
thought would drop you a few lines
about our late campaign, and brief ac-
count Of the actions of the 9th just as
they passed under my view. The after
noon Of the 4th We received marching
orders, but were not ordered to leave
Camp Parole until the morning of the
9th. About Q o'clock of that morning
we received orders to be ready to take
the cars in 80 minutes, with 8 days ra.
tions in one haversack. Not having any
provisions cooked, we filed our haver.
sacks with hard tack and raw "sow belly"
and started. we knew not whittier. We
arrived at Annapolis Juntion. Il believe
It is called, where we chaneed loco,no-
tives, and again stated for an unknown
destination. We stoped for shor time
near the Relay House. where Col. Hunt
and the most Of our Reg't. is stationed
and conversed with some of the members
of the Carey Co., but their names l did
not learn.
AS soon as the train for which we
were waiting had passed, We again star
ted, and in few hours were landed at
the Monocasy junction, the most impor-
tant station on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railrosd. Here was our destination, to
assist in protecting the Iron bridge across
the Monocacy river al the Junction.
Our command consisted Of three Com
panies of the l4lth, and three Companies
of the l49th, o. N. G., all under the
command of Maj. Ro4el, of the ll9th.
We were marched to the North CT the
Junction, and ordered to pitch our tents.
but scarcely had this been done when the
order was countermauded, and we were
ordered into line and each man received
100 rounds of caltriges. This bespoke
something We were then ordered to load
our piece, and then await further orders
We remained in this position nnder a
sweating sun for about one hour, during
which time horsemen and cannon were
seen hurrying in every direction. when
we were ordered to rest at will. We were
not long in seeking shade, and thus we
took our ease until about four 4 o'clock,
whea our Co. (Co. G, from Marseiles,
was ordered to report at head quarters,
Capt. Frank, reported with his Co., with
his usual promptness and we we're sent
about 1 OF a mile in the direction Of Fred
erick city, and stationed on picket duty,
Soon The booming OF canon wHs heard in
the direction oi Frederick, and for the
first time We began to realize the presence
of an enemy. The firing continued for
about } an hour. when the roar of mus
kerry was plainly heard to mingle with
that Of artillery. There was very little
intermisson in the firing from this until
dark, when all become calm, and what,
a short time before that might have been
considered battle field, now seemsd en-
folded in the arms of morpheus. The
gathering storm seemed to have passed
away, and all around wa, calm as a sum
msr morning. But the calm was but Of
short duration, ere the night had half
passed away the heavy trundling of art;l-
lery wagons was herd reyerbersting along
the hills and awful sound resembling the
far distant roar of the terrible storm as it
first burst on the ear of the listener. This
noise remained d mystery to us until the
next moring, when we ascertained
it was the trampling Of some 1000
of our cavalry, passing forward to engage
in the hand to hand conflict Of the coming
day.
About a m., of the 9th, we were or
dered off picket duty, and again reported
at Head quarters, we were ordered to
stack arms, and six of our men were de-
tailed to guard some rebel prisoners just
brought in, in the meantime, our detach-
ment had been ordered to Frederick, and
in short time our Co, was ordered there
also. We were put on the cars with the
llth Nd, home guards, 100 days men
and run to Frederick where we were
marched to the field Here we found
our detachment, which had been Joined
" the remainder of the l49th drawn up I
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