Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-04-21
of the Cedar Falls Gazette.
From the Thirty first Iowa.
A SPICY AND INTERESTING LETTER.

GoLDsBoRo, March 30th, 1865.
NJ. Geo. u. rerkins-,Dear Sir:
received yours in due time, and real
ly, sir, l must say you spread it on rath-
er steep when you call the GAZETTE
peakty newspaper. We don't allow that
even from you, sir; for what with its
racy locals, its kilograms, its horticul-
tural fairs, and its descriptions of other
fairs, its communications from Peter,
saying nothing Of those on dts that do
not emanate from the brain of Paul,
and all the interesting news and gossip
from far and near, not forgetting your
occasional correspondence from the
army-taking it all in alive will not
allow you, or any one else, to rank the
GAZETTE any lower in the standard
than Major-General, Commanding!
You ask too much when you say,
Anticipate reports and rumors by letting
friends know of our whereabouts. We
CANNOT! The ways of our leader, Old
Billy, are past finding out and, us you
get all the news of battles, destinations,
&C., &C., long before you could get it
from us, you must be content to know
that we are all right. And here I'll Just
say for your future guidance that wher-
ever Sherman is there will be found the
Fifteenth Army Corps, and its head
John "A. Logan "a tigerD; wherever the
Fifteenth is, there will be the First Di-
v.ts II.
perD, and with Woods Division you
will find the Iowa Brigade of the Fif-
teenth Army Corps, Colonel George O.
Stone Ga stunnerD commanding. BY
looking around in that Brigade you will
find the 4th, 9Th, 18th and 3lst Iowa
Volunteer Infantry Regiments. Bully
boys are they, and very heavy on the
fight; and all reports, rumors, lies of
whatever name or nature, to the con-
trary, we shall not be out of the feid
until our term of service has expired. -
You can invest all your spare green
backs (if an editor has any, and win on
that easy in go, that is fast time | be-
lieve). Again, as Sigh Klay says in his
sermons, How do you expect that n
poor, ragged and foot-sore soldier can
keep you posted when he 300 miles from
communication, plodding his cary way
through an enemy's country? Why,
sir, we only know for weeks ut time
that there is such place rs Gods coun-
try, except by the inquiries made of Us
respecting the promised land by the
poor and helpless, and / might say al
most hap!ess, refugees. But hereafter
you shall have no cause for complaint.
/ will drop you as many lines as you
will care TO publish in the GENERAL
and mind, now, if you don't publish
any l will not get offended. nor feel
myself injured, for like a true soldier
I'll console myself with the thought
that suffer for my country's good.
l know, friend George, that you and
your patrons take lively interest in
Company Il, and we'll you may--it is O
noble Company, and so far has so con,
Quoted itself as to not only gain but to
retain the confidence and respect OF
Regimental, Brigade and Division com,
mandcrs. Now, / suppose that you
and your readers take Il personal inter
est in the welfare of each individual
member, and If l am personal i'm some
| things ii is all right-thc boys will pay
me for it here. Capt. Williams is well.
and as full of energy as ever. Lieut..
Salisbury since my last has been de-
tailed Acting Adjutant, the Adjutant
having had II severe attack of bleeding
at the lungs. Orderly Sessions is all
right, and makes good officer, does
his duty well, and appears well--that is
| as well as he can, dressed as he is; but
then we will ell have new clothes soon,
and then guess there will be no more
flags of truce fluttering i'm the breeze
Scrgeants Meuser and Sigh Klay are the
same as of old. Meuser occasionally
sings the Deutschc Compana ish de
best Compana," while the Elder still
gives us his "Harp Of Thousand
Strings" Sergeant Stearns is at Divis-
ion Commissary's, and docs us proud on
the eating question, and very OCCASION
ally on the drink---the latter not so often
as | should like. Sergeant Fitkin was
taken prisoner last summer. The Cor
porals Fellows, Eyestonc, Ray, Over
man, Berry, Humbert and Hoagland
are jolly good set of fellows, and al
ways ready for duty. Fellows is Act
ing Commissary Sergeant, and he is
just the man for the place. Now, tell
you what it is, Corporal Humbert (I
don't like to tell it, took great inter
est in the welfare Of certain refugees on
our trip from Columbia to Fayetteville;
and well be might, for they gave him
a nice pair of gloves and two pairs of
good, home-knit socks. / would not
have told, but he gave me one pair of the
socks, and almost know that he gave
me ones that the old maid knit instead
of the ones fashioned by the beautiful
young lady. 1t is enough TO make a
better Christian than 1 am swear; but
I'ye had my revenge. Geo. Anderson,
Brandon, Cummings, Palmer, Mont
gomery, Rath, Fox, Phinney, Rocken-
dorf, Peterson, Harrington, Heightman,
Martin, Griggs, McCarty (the wild irish
man, Billy and Charley Webster, Wor-
cester, Prouty, Greise, Parmenter and
Young arc oil well. Schermerhorn is
as tough as ever, and as for myself, ~
am well and 'arty," as our friend jacobs
used to say. Q. NJ. Sergeant Rosenbaum
is full of business, turning over mules,
ION paper j mean. Commissary Ser
geant HotchEiss is quite lame, having
been accidentally kicked by mule, but
he will be oil right in a few days. Hos
pital Steward John j. Eanorden ia, as
he has always been, going around seek
ing whom he can help physically. I
think the fellow is actually getting fat!
Gilman is at Brigade II. ID. Q.'s, also
II. G. Rholedcr Luther r. Reed has