Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-05-05
Letter from the 4sd ohio Regimont.
CAMP 4sD 0Hlo vEr 1NgAArRY, AZ
DEoAruR, ALA, April %. 1884.

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{ Having no particular duty 10 do q. day
have concluded 70 write you thesnews.
News, though, iS scaree, and ,plentygt too.
NeWs from the rebels IL very scant, while
We get plenty from the North. Oineiuuatl
| papers get here on the seeond day. We
will get papers OF the 24th 70 night, II
nothing happens TO the train, which 10 due
tat 10 P. n. The railroad dues not run
exactly to This !placs. III comes "a, the
Junction, where the Nashville aud Decatur
railroad joins the Memphis and, Oharleston,
q distance Of nearly, three miles from here.
From The, Junction the train goes on 10
Huntsville and from there to Chattanooga.
Trains from Chattanooga TO Nashville gen
orally come around this way, az, they ship
stores 30 fast TO Chattanooga from Nash
vile, that trAius FROM Chattanooga have to
come around by this route, which is not
very much used. At least. fifteen trains
pass the junction daily, going 70 Nashville,
while one arrives from that place. Some
of them are very large, and all more or less
loaded with refugees aud prisoners, who
are noFthWaFd bound. Between this town
and the Junction are two bridges, both
burnt, one over the Tennessee river, aud
the other over large pond, called swan
lake. The latter Is now. being rebuilt, aud
Will shortly DO hnished, but think It 10
doubtful. whether the one over the river
VIII DC rebuilt or not. did hear the 9TH
or day that there was TO be an iron one
put up, but guess this is not so. / think
The poutoon bridge will do very we'll; Il ID
still standing, and Gen. Sherman is re-
ported to have said that it was the beat
put up one that he had ever seen. The
river is wider here a great deal than the
ONO ls Ct Wheeling. Il Is as wide as the
Ohio at Cincinuati.
We are kept on the look out continually
from the reports our scouts bring ia that
the rebels are concentrating in force With
in very short distance Of Decatur Ii is
even asserted that camp, or what il, sup
II posed to be one, can be seen from Gen.
1 Fuller's headquarters. They are expected
TO see US shortly, aud l think they will be
very warmly welcomed. We have been
making all the preparations necessary, and
when tho rebels conclude to pay ne visit,
they will not Ptay very long, what few Of
them may escape alive. The Troops have
been drilling daily, and the batteries are
practising on target with shot and shell,
They can shoot very we'll. one battery 10
particular. having 20 pou. der gus. Az
old gunner, who has seen service In other
countries. says he can shoot as we'll with
0De of them as he can with rife. These
same guns performed good work ~ Corinth,
WISH you were here to. SEQ the Eau,
ayes There are two regiments of them
the 18th N Y. and the 95th N. J bOIh
splepdtd regiments aud welt drilled. Tie
35th got new uniform the other day, and
they look eplendidly, all together, but sep
arateIy they look extremely odd. Theiu
uniform Is dark blue ,uave pAntS, Zou.
ave JACKET and q black Z1uave cap wish q
long yellow tasSel, foot long at least
also red sash. The other troops have
given them the name Of .. YstIop Rammsrs.n
The lib N. Y. has light blue iafantry
pants. ZouaTe jackets, . long red sash AND
red caps with red taSsels the same length
OF the others. They are called the :. Wood,
Peettrs." They are all good men, but don'l
seem TO relish the names we have given
them.
Ealler, who was 10 command Of III.
Ohio brig 80 long has been promoted
and isiqeYi BEigadtsr; he is . good mau
Iand well geeshy afthe position. His bri
Egsde Is neN. eeltt dps The .Ssth aud 37th Dol
10 enc brigade, and tie 43d and So in an.
Iother. The General commands the first
aod Col Spragus, ofthe SD, commands III,
other. w III