Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-07-15
From tI.e End OHIO cnrnIrr-


From a letter to the Painesville Iele-
graph, describing the part taken IN there
cent raid on the DanYille road, we extract
5he following:
Some 2OO0 contrabands had gathered
together proportion of theirmasters bed
ding and walked with US. For many days
Ehey had Travelled overthe rough and dusty
roads, loQknGgn k nGgnttefsFsn te f7 o7 ali ses and gbo5o8
from the babe in arms to the cripple of
| 70-the jet black African TO the cripple of
| spring miscegenation-all were march
ihg with US, on what they believed to be
tIe road to Freedom. Not more than 500
i ever reached our lines. Men who remain
ed with our wounded until the rebel aaval-
| ~ charged upon them, report that all con-
trabands were cut down. The rebel caVal-
~ spared neither man, woman nor child
| but all fell before the cleaning blade and
uplifted arms of the rebel hand. Mothers
were seen to throw their offsprings into the
brush by the wayside when the bloody
blade cleft their skulls, others drew them
closer to their bosoms, and parent and child
fell before the same thrusts. ll
Along our entire route every acre of til
liable ground was covered with grain
The inhabitants were straining every
nerve to support their army, and as far
as visible to the eve there is not one loyaI
inan in Virginia. The old tobacco staple
bas been abandoned and nothing is plant
ed which is not directly required to sup
port life. The new grain is ripe and the
cid Is not yet exhausted-and save from
the absence Of man, one would have no
evidence that three years of war had
swept. over a portion of this state. We
found the Virginia Valley a blooming
garden and made it one scene of desola-
ton All along the Danville railroad
from the junction to Roanoke, crops were
Ieyeled to the GROUND, graiReries and
barns were burned, and fences cease to
aiark boundary lines. One tenth Of all
produce raised IN the Confederacy, for
rebel use, was in many places stored in
lhrge quantities, and it was destroyed
Choice hams were dangling from saddles,
preserve jars wee peeping from haver-
SACKS, and merrily we marched through
the land of milk and honey.
The weather during the entire raid was
excessively warm, end water very scarce.
Nst reviving shower to lay the dust
not cloud to shield US from the sun. Ev-
cry well and spring were put in operation
and hundreds of parched, dusty men were
struggling for dip in the "old water
bucket Horses became exhausted and !
fell dead by the wayside Men dropped |
from their saddles and reeled rs their worn |
0ut steeds stumbled over the very rough |
rpads. Only those who have marched be- |
Heath burning sun for several days |
through clouds Of dust, without sleep or |
rest, can imagine that indescribable sensa-
ton of unrefreshing, sleepy, dreamy
which one feels as he erags
through the hours with closed eyes and |
5enumbed senses.
sMLLD AND WOUNDED N 2ND OHIO cAyAL-
RY.
From letter to the Summit Beacon we
3btain the following list of killed, wounded
md missing, in tho great raid:
I Go. A Sergt Thomas Pacy, killed. 1t.
;. a. Mason, John Frease, Chas L. Harris,
Vim. B. Reed, wounded
Go. B. Sergt. Joseph Stearns very slight
j wounded
! Co. c. Sergt. Thomas Wood, killed.
( Co. d. Capt Ii. C. Pike, Joseph Lux
TART, wounded.
Co, E. Sergt. Zabad c. Bisssll, wounded.
Co. f. Martin V. Baugh, Andrew Camp
jeil, Mark Noble, G. W. Budd, wounded
Co. H. Stephen Badcock, Lyman But
er, (nortally) Reed Glenn, Chas. Web
ter, wounded.
Co. K Corpl. Abel A. Lewis, Benjamin
Johnson, G. Myers, wounded. ..
Co. L. Clementine Kidd killed. Zimri
chapman, David Edgington, Corp. Jerry
Iisstey, Samuel Storer, David A Rey-
olds, wounded.
Co. NJ Capt VIM. H. Ulrey, Sergt.
hos J. Stoker, Joseph Cummings, David
ohnson, wounded Thomas Holey. kill
d. /
There are about seventy missing The
blowing are those from Co. A. Sergt. P.
V. Stanford, Capt H. L. Williams Peter
'arringer, Sylvester H. Beatty, Thos. II.
luck, James Gross, John Fitch, d. Lock-
God, G. NILSSON, Virgil Robinson, Henry
|. Smith, Chas. II. Williams. H0OFS.