The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-08-16

his command in the following neat
FAREWELL ADDRESS.
HEADQUARTERS
7TH WEST Va. VETERAN CAVALRY,
August It'll, 1865. }
OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS -
You are on the eve of departing for
your homes; our organization will soon
cease to exist; and, as it is probable that
many of us will never meet again, l
would speak few parting words, as
your Commanding Officer. While pro-
foundly thankful to God for bringing the
war to so glorious an end, and for his
mercy in permitting us to live to see its
termination, and heartily rejoicing with
you all at the prospect of soon visiting
our friends and homes, still l see this
separation with feelings of the deepest
regret.
No Commanding Officer ever had truer
men under him, and, believe, few regl-
ments can equal ours in the general kind
feelings displayed by the officers and men
for each other, and in freedom from III
testine disorders.
We have been a happy family, and
this breaking up of our relations calls
forth every noble and manly feeling OF
our nature.
can testify to the devoted patriotism
which SO many of you exhibited by vol
unteering in the early part of the war
| (when the conflict was around your very
door -stones) at immediate great personal
risk, and leaving your wives, little ones
and earthly possessions surrounded by
enemies. can willingly bear record to
the sound and noble loyalty with which
the nineteen hundred men of the Kama
wha Valley who have belonged to the
regiment, have maDifested in battling for
the Right, when so many of their friends
and kinsmen have fought for the Wrong
We will long remember the dangerous
and exciting scouting service III the Kan
awba Valley, in 1861 We will never for
get the trying times of 1862, with Ere.
mont, in the Shenandoah Valley, at
Strausburg, Mt jackson, HarrisOnhnrg
and Cross Keys,-with Sigel and Pope
and Milroy, in Eastern Virginia, at Mad
ison C. H., Cedar Mountain, Freeman's
Ford, und Bull Run,-and with Cox, dri-
wing the enemy from your own valleys
and mountains. We will, with pleasure,
| Often call 10 llllli tne piiShtc' ""S VI
| 1868, with Averill, at Williamsport, Mar
| tinsburg, Winchester, Monterey, Hun
| tersville, Warm Springs, White Snlpher
| Springs, Droop Mountain, Lewishurg,
| Coyington, and the heroic f"rtiiude oil
the Salem Raid. We will proudly re-
count the experiences of 1864, al the be
ginning of which more than three tonrihs
OF your number boldly re enlisted rs vet
Grams, and soon after fought successfully
under Crook, at Princeton, Cloyd NOM
tain, Dublin, Newber and New River
Bridge; then with Crook and Averill, At
Lexington, Liberty, New London, Buck
hanon, and Lynchburg on the Hunter
Raid; after that divided mp in detached
posts, You successfully held, for months,
a liue more than "a hundred miles long,
although repeatedly attacked by sever
al times your numbers.
You should be thankful that you wit
messed the closing scenes OF the rebellion
on the very ground where you first felt
| its curse, and received the submission OF
the very men who first wrong"d You.
You need not blusl, with anything bui
| pride when you read the record, and N"n
can gloriously recite the deeds done on
these battlefield to Your children ana
children's children.
We will ever retain in aitectiunate
and honorable remembrance, the recol-
lections of those gallant men ef the
regiment who devotedly fell on the bat
tie ground, or We're foully murdered III
rebel prisons The names 81 %nCii eli
GERS as Curtiss, Gardner, Parker, Prirs
ter Merchant, Neuman, and NeWonmh.
and such men as Foster, Monk, Woods
Forth, Marshall, Hamrick, GriuHt2li,
Harper, Cook, Ballard Vaughn, and q
host of Othars, are engraved upon thu
tables of ourhearts The war is ended T
Country is regenerated and saved our
work, as soldiers is finished We have
now to enter upon the responsible aud
binding duties of citizens. Exert your
selves to aid and hasten the restoration
of civil law in every part of West Viz
GINA. Submit yourselves thoroughly
to it you have been good and gallant
soldiers,-see that. as citizens, yOn still
maintain the fair reputation OF orr reg
iment The Kauawha Valley is rich III
mineral and other wealth: develop il,
and every mark of the ravagcs of war
| will soon be etfaced. Accept my most
profound and heartfelt thanks for the
cheerful and active assistance, almost
universal good discipline, and prompt
obedience you have ever evinced. Il.
assured that the recollections of Our four
years associations are indclibly impress
sed upon my life | offer my earnest
and best wishes to each officer and mai,
for his future welfare and long and
happy life came to you a perfect
stranger. / feel that am leaving my
brot hers and best friends. FAREWELL
(SigneO JOHN Fl. OBEY,
Breyet Brigadier General,
and COolonol COMMANDING