Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1864-07-01


deserve it.
My brother, Rudolph, was wounded in the
shoulder on the I'd inst, but is again on duty.
| The health of the 10th is very good. Col.
| Haynes makes his men police the camp ground
every day. He told them this evening, on dress
| parade, that he would rother see his men 90
home, if they are not SO well drilled, than send
| them home in boxes. We all feel proud of our
Colonel, and well we may, for he is Just as init
| mate with the privates he is with the men
that wear clapboards on their shoulders ONLY
more SO. We are all the Colonel's friends and
old Abe's children. There is no smell of Fre-
mont or Vallandgham in our camp.
am obliged to you for sending the Journal.
as would not be without it for good deal
1t is welcome visitor in our camp.
Excuse me for not writing in better stvle for
you know / am dutchman, but no Fremont
| man. Yours truly, HENRY IMLER.
HEADQUARTERS, 169TH REGIMENT, Owl
Ft. Ethan Allen, Va, June "a "a.
Dear Jou1,aI:-Old Sol is pouring down his
rays this morning with the utmost intensity
There is cool breeze coming up though, mod
flying his frey temperature to some extent.
This is the day for target practice with the
big guns, and as l sit writing l can hear the
boom of perhaps one hundred guns from ours
and the neighboring forts. hear the shot and
shell go bowling and screeching through the
air like SO many demons let loose from the low
er regions. We have this kind of practice
twice week-Tuesdays and Fridays-six shots
being fired from each gun.
Twill give you statement of some shooting
that took place at one of these drills not long
since, and to show you that Sandusky county
boys can shoot. A squad of men fired six shots
from 32-pounder Parrott, and threw four of
the six within 90 feet of the target-one of the
shells cutting off the tree to which the target
was attached. And this at distance of 2, $40
yards. This is called good shooting, especially
for inexperienced gunners.
notice that my friend of the pen as well as
the Sooord has given you a graphic description
Ofther daily routine of exercises III the western
army, and it may not come amiss for me to give
you delineation of ours in the eastern, or in a
division of the "Grand Army of the Potomac -
more properly in the ''Army of the Defences
around Washington. Our exercises are SINH
lar to my friend "Harwood'' d Co.'S One
ching certain, we boast of giving Uuncle
Samuel the best measure. We have revilee at
day break when the order 'all fall in for roll
CALI resounds from one extremity of the bar
racks to the other. Twenty minutes after rev.
lee breakfast. The order is, Breakfast, fall
in, which command usually is given by the
cook. Here the boys all fall in with alacrity,
and without much hesitation Company drill
from 6 to 7. Guard mounting "a, when the
new guard is mounted and the old guard re-
lieved. Sick call at 8, when all the sick are
reported by the 1st Sergeants of their respec-
tive companies to the Physician, who gives
them such prescriptions as he may deem neces- |
sary. Company drill from S3I till 10. Bat |
talon drill from 10 to IL. Dinner at H. We |
have Fatigue party working on the fortifca- |
tons of about 100 men, detailed daily; they |
work from 61s to IL % A, NJ, and from to 6 |
P. NJ. This party are building a bomb-proof |
barrack on the inner part of the fort Drill Az |
till 6 P. M. Dress Parade 90 minutes before sun
down. Tattoo at 81. Taps at 834 Besides
this regular routine, we have artillery drills, |
policing, DC. Col. Nat says he will have things
In proper order if he has to detail the whole |
regiment to do it, which by the way is all for |
the best. The best way to ensure the health of |
the regiment is to keep everything clean and |
tidy. At present the garrison is all astir at |
in the morning This is by authority of an or
der from Headquarters issued some two weeks /
ago, and is done for the purpose of preventing |
a surprise. Some of the companies are posted |
in the fort near the parapets. The gunners at |
their posts, while other companies are stationed /
out in the rifle pits all remain at their posts
till sunrise, when the sentinels may have a full |
and distinct view of the surrounding country
An occurrence of rather serious nature to |
the parties interested took place few nights /
since. Three men and sergeant were standing
on duty on one of the picket posts, some two
miles out. During the night they deserted |
their posts and repaired to a farm house near by
and committed sundry offences. They have all |
been arrested for desertion by the Provost, and
sent down to Washington where they are safely |
cared for in the ''lock-up.' 1t is a very grave /
offense, and two of them will be shot without
doubt, if not all of them. They were from the
18th New York Cavalry.
We are pretty well settled and are getting in
very fine working order. Everything works
fine, and much better than could be expected
after having passed through such an ordeal of
consolidation and dreconsolidation companies are
well organized.
We have fine Drum Corps, consisting of 20
drummers and fifers. They are under the su-
pervisiono of the principal musician, C. NJ. CouI-
ter, of Defiance Our little boys, Johny and
Flavel, fill their places creditably in this ''WOod
Pecking Band, u as it has been honorably nick
named.
must not forget to notice the Color Guard.
~ SoAioh'"o VI SOpA IoOhIlS iuCLs
and not only good looking, but men who will
do their duty when called on; and should we
be called into action, you may expect to hear a
good account from Color Sergeant Holcomb and
his staff.
1t certainly is too bad and tongue cannot give
utterance to language sufficiently reproachful
to those men at home in the North who by
their daily acts and deeds are giving aid
and strength to the Southern cause The last
and only lingering hope of fhe COnfederacy is
in the Copperheads of the North. One rebel at
home and in the rear is worse than two in the
front And it appears that some of them have
perception enough to see this. Had we at the
North come boldly up to the work two years
ago, and all stood united as one man, this ma
tional trouble would have been settled long ere
this, and we, with thousands more, would have
been at home following our daily and peaceful
ayocatiOns. Ignorance has its excuses but it
certainly cannot be blindness in those men any
longer, but that spirit of party without the
principle, predominates; and closing their eyes
against all National interests madly rush us on
IN this fratricidal war to ruin and destruction
Such men ought to be, and justly are spurned
rom all good society. | do not wish to be mis-
1t is not my intention to lay the
blame where it does not belong. | do not think
he masses should bear the blame, for | honest
y believe them to be as strictly and truly loyal
low as they have been heretofore. But it is
,n1y the DoIitical demapoOues who lead them