The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1865-02-09
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Correspondence of the Highland Nsws.
From the oath Ohio Battery--What
the Boys are Doing-- Rebel Prison
ers-Cold Weather, &c.
CANE DOUGLAS, ILL. Jan. 29, 1865.
Mr.. BoARDMAN--Dear Sir: With your
permissionJ l. will endeavor to inform
your readers how the boys in the 24tb
Battery are getting along.
Since the arrest Of the Chicago con-
spirators our duties have been lightened,
and now officers and men are employed
in taking prisoners from this TO other
points. The prisoners are often deser-
ters and Bounty jumpers, and require
close guarding. With the best guards
they often escape. Last Monday Lieut.
f. W. Poor started frcm Camp with a
squad for Springfield. He got them in
the cars all right, but between this city
and Springfield one man made his es-
cape by jumping through the car win
dow, while the train was 10 motion. II
was wonder the fellow was not kill,
ed, for the train was running fast when
he made the leap, There are at this
time about IL, 900 prisoners at this Post
A large number have made application
to take the oath, as they consider tht
"Confederacy" about "played OUT
About FIVE or six hundred of those tha
have applied to take the oath are en-
ployed in building Barracks and doin!
fatigue duty in camp. 'Itdoes not seen
a. all humiliating for. the Southern
Chivalry to labor for the Norther
"mud sills." f-frrr--.urr reFt r0
= The rebels often try' to escape, bu
are not often successful. The follow
- ing incident was related by the Rev. L
} B.. Tutal, Post Chaplain. One of tn
) prisoners was detailed as clerk to tn
Sutler, whose confidence he soon pos
sessed. After time the syrup barre
became empty, and the clerk conceive
the idea of escaping in it. lie there
lore told the Sutler that there was con
siderable sugar remaining in the barre
; and he would sell it to the grocer
the meantime he placed largo stone i
, the barrel and headed it up, 1t was sol
r to the grocer for $40, At an early hou
in the morning the clerk hid himseI
in the barrel and comrade put in th
head. It was duly lifted into tho dra
by a detail of Rabs and shipped to tt
grocer. When the dray had gone SON
distance the clerk leaped from tho ba
rel and escaped. The Irish drayma
was 50 terrified he could not speak f
some time. The rebel was not recapt,
red.
D Colonel Sweet, the Commander of I'll
Post, has been promoted to Brigadi
General for saving the City and Can
from being burned by the Copperhe,
L conspirators. Under his command Oau
9 Douglas has become 1one of the best re
n ulated Camps in the United States.
d large Hospital has been constructed, {
/. pable Of holding several hundred pa
o sons; a new Chapel is being built, a
c will be ready foruse in a short time.
q The trial of the Bushwhackers 81
,f confined here will come off sooR. Ol
g GERS from the 18th and 9Th Regimen
ID V. r G. have been detailed for the Co,
J. Martial Great interest is manifest
in regard to the trial now going on
Cincinnati. A full account is publish
p. in all the city papers.
"A The weather for the past few days
a been very cold, and the gnards on
of parapet have had hard time to k G
Ia from freezing. The health of the b
70 terry is improving. We have five n
lin the Hospital--none dau gerops, Sii
no the Battery has been iniCpmp Doug
q. we have lost by dsatRths following ~
he william T. Tepplip, " e. % ,''.,.' I'D ..
ns Sergeant Whortoa", ,Eastqr%.'' '.' ,,T y e, e,
be Lockwood Southland, and 'a ..ll.2 .
II. George g. Miller, .,a.sh ,1s .,5 1o 'a.st e.,
No. They were all good soldiers an dki
- comrades. Their loss was felt dee
he by the Battery. a,,g IL, - g.@a ;, ~ ?
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