, 1865-09-05
FROM THE ssTH ILLINOIS, IN TEXAS.

CANT, GREEN LAKE, Texas, Aug. IL, 1865.
Editors Chicago Tribune:
have before me number Of the TRIBUNE
Of June g, In which is published letter from
gentleman OF ,1u1lue;I1n. complaining very
bitterly because his son has not been d1S-
charged, according to promises made by the
recruiting officer ut the time of his enlistment.
also sec an editorial In the same paper, that
yon do not know where or By whom such
promises have been made. Col. C. 7. uotell-
kiss, assisted by commissioned officer, and
eetsset e1e en ;y Of bis ri
sMi regiment, md bnt one of those ot1eers
tsetgeant Boomer), stated to the re-
cIuils the true nature Of the ser.
Vice. If the Government Is not at fault
for The injustice done TO the recruits of the
e9th regiment, surely Col: Hotchkiss must be
the party accountable. Whilst recruiting iD
different paris Of our State they we're pFora. n
tsipg that the recruit should be mustered ont
With the regiment, that we should all be
mounted, that the horses were being pur-
chased IN the States Of Ohio and Indiana. Col
Hotchkfss said he had orders from General
Rosecrans to enlist men for mounted service,
but the question naturally arises, why the
Colonel persevered, aflcr General 'Rosecrans
was relieved from the command Of the De-
panment Of the Cumberland in recruiting
more .ncn after that time thnn be did before.
He must have known that his regiment was
neither mounted nor ever likely 10 be under
the then existing orders. Other regiments
were lecrulting under the same orders, but
they did not after the removal Of General
IsosccraDs enlist men for mounted service.
In come few instances the recruits
Of those other regiments were prom
ised their discharge at the time
Of the old Organization. The officers
consummated their injustice upon Ms at the
ftfy.nx nx,F fHuvx
ment, by charging Us. In ouz descriptive Lists,
for more clothing than VIC had received. This
was probably done to make mp deficiencies IN
their books, OF to mike us pay for surplus
clothing used by themselves. doubt very
much whether smother parallel of rascality
can be found In the transferring Of men from
one regiment to another.
hear that some of the officers now deny
having enlisted men for the unexpired term
Of the regiment. All the recruits will testify
that was the understanding when they
enlisted, and some can pnorc by outside Wit
nesses that they were to be discharged with
the regiment. Col. Hotchkiss, even, told us
out Of SERVICE Now. since We were not per-
mitted TO follow our old war worn aAE home
that 1ag which we have seyen times follow
cd against the encmy's works, land no braver
men were there than some Of the S9th re-
cruitsrwe want all our friends to know that
lut lakluB Ol lu1sE CQl0rS away from US was
sadder blow than our transfer to another
regiment. We should have loved, after fol-
lowing over the field OF carnage, to harc gone
home with 1t too.
You think that the hardships Of the SOL
dies nre daily growing less. 1 beg leave to
diHet from you. So Tar as regards the 18th
army corps, / hare carried my 1nusket and
knapsack ON every march and campaign Of
the 4th corps since Its organization, and
would far rnther he in nn0ther campaign in
East Tennessee, than be on this Texns catn-
paign. Men here have been known to cat
harty suppers. 60 to bed, and be dead men
before midnight, and some Of our marches
are twenty miles, with no moro water than
VIC can carry in our canteens- Our d.
vision has from eight to twelve deaths per
week, making from twenty five to forty deaths
weekly for the corps. II our harlsh1ps are
not as great as before, why ehould so many old
war worn veterans desert now, when they
would scorn to do SO in the fAce Of IN
enemy? -.---.
Just one thing more and will close, and
TINT Is the coward Copperhead taI, that the
stay-nt-homes have seatcd upon us, thereby
robbins rs OF our $100 bounty. We hare to
pay them for coming up to their duty to our
country after they conld no longer avoid it by
hiring substitutes, and we think it was
grand oversight In our Legislature TO give
those at home power to vote q tax like thnt
on the soldiers in the field.
Yours, &C., EAsroS WEAVER.