The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-01-14

men end tour officers, meeting sucreSslui-
ly tie attack Of q rebel brigade, and cap {
turing the colors Of the 4th North Carolina,
thereby holding the left Of Summers Corps
and fo.ling the enemy in great effort TO
ou.tianis oar forces. At Fredericksburg
they lost one hundred and seventy one
men. and seventeen on. OF the nineteen Oh
Il .ers they bad, eight OF them being killed
outright, including the Major. Colonel
Cross was here wounded again. AT Get
tysburg they lost seyenty-uve men and
seven officers, including their la,nen'ed
Colonel, who was killed. In the present
gn they lost, at Cold Harbcr, two
hundred men, in the charge OF the Sd OF
June; and from its commencement untii
now, have lost IL ba,:le, skirnishes, d..
some three hundred and Atty men.
Al the death Of Colonel Cross, Cc.oEe!
Charles Z. Hapgood succeeded in command
until wounded on the 10th OF June, at re-
tershurc, and is mustered out o. service,
his term having expired. Major James r.
Laskin then took the command until oclo-
Der IS, when tie was also mustered out Tor
the ex pration of his tern. Colonel w. A.
Crafts then succeeded IN command, and
still holds the position, having been re,nus-
tered in for three years. This of.cer, Ia
thoroughly selI-Inade man, having risen
from the rank Of a private IL the "a New
HAMPSHIRE has grown with the oih New
Hampshire, and partaken OF nearly every
battle in which i. has been engaged; was
very seriously wounded al dericksburS, |
so much rs 70 imperil life; was taken prs
oner a. Charles City. and has ever proven
himself eof the most devoted and en-
cent OF officers. What mus. be the feelings
OF such mar, and OF tie gallant fellows
who have shared SO many dangers and gso-
ries with him, 10 rnd the dearly earned
fame OF thar regiment AZ last becoming tar
nished, BY sending form food for tho gal
lows?
TO relate ali the abuses now being perpe-
tra.ei in the army, py the present applica-
ton OF the substitute and bounty system
will ae to pen what many may deem ~
credible; but there IS nothing herein as
serted which will not be fouDu capable OF
undeniaple proof. WIN it be belleved
when l tell yea that substitute brokers',
aided, Of course, ~ boards OF enrolment,
exa.ninrg phys clans, &c., without whose
guilty connivance they could not act,)
have had the audaci:y TO send as recruits
to cur army. cripples from birth; men par
tally blind; idiots frou town farms peo-
pie with hernia OF long standing; puny
bows OF fourteen or fifteen; men being con-
s.antly claimed as SD bjec,S 81 other bov-
ernmenis; graduates from the rive Poluts
OF New YORK escaped prisoners IRON the
p-y Toriugas; rebel adventures from
, Canada and elsewhere; some who have
suffered By year Of paralysis, and nun
nreds VITO can not understand one WORD OF
I the E4UC.4SD ln2EGGEt, ana WILMA A. ASs Va
: course. impossible 70 drill and instruct IN
. the duties Of a soldier? Indeed, it is TO be
feared tnat the large portion OF the deser-
, ters from the rebel army, attracted by the
large bounties offered, form no small part
, Of the boar1ty jumping element among Us.
Blu, ]. IS far easier 10 Ind 'auit tnan 70
suggest {. remedy, which latter Is 70 part
. of nv province. All / know is, that 1t is
: utterly impossible 70 conceive any system
which work worse than the present one,
whether we regard the enormous frauds
, rrae.iced upon the Government, the ceie-
, ferrous effect upon our armies, the injustice
.tiuf,;cts upon the real soldier, who is bat
tliny tieyotedly Tor his country, or the cru
, el prolongatien OF the war, py irittering
: away whole portions Of armies, which
have been pad for III hard cash, but which
are nowhere 70 be found when required.
One grand source OF the evil appears TO
!. be this: Tire present law that the Govern
. ment bo.,nties shall be paid by Install
ments, is robteo altogether Of its effect oy
= the vicious system OF paying over the mon
, ey to assignees instead of the parties en-
!, listing. The substitute, by receiving, al
: the time of the enlistment, either a, tnt
: hand OF the broker or other Interested ira
:, ding parties, the whole bounty down
: both Government and State-and having
;, no more to pee. except his monthly al
!. lowance, has no inducement TO remain
: = This should be put an end TO; the bountle'
! If bounties wemust have-being paid on
= by installments TO the soldier himself, al
3 ter enlisting and Joining his regiment;
- :, AS sto the cure OF thisgrowing and alarm
:, ing evil, have only heard two suggestion
!. that seem at all 70 reach the subject. On
:, is the toi al abolition Of the substitute sys
:, tenn. and TO make each able bodied man
: under a graduated scale Of exemption
4 take his chance OF baviDg to aght ior tn
;. country that protects him. 1he ctner is
= that if substitutes cannot be done ava.
:, with. then 10 make each individual dratte.
:. respons ibie to take the place OF his S0Dsll
= tute in case Of default, and lay the broke
. under the heaviest responsibility. Ihis ias
70 would soon make people select other ina
- unprincip!ed adventUrers and vagaConc
- to take their places in the army, and drin
:. up the life blood OF the nation. have no'
laid before you few of the leading fea
lures of this great evil, and am sure iheT
is is no true soldier in our armies. from u
le highes. TO the lowest grade, but Will col
a. roborste all have said. Let those see
- the remedy to whom the duty belongs, an
e. let that remedy be prompt, for the poiso
'e is circulating 10 an extent little dreamed
az bv those vino have not watched lt.-CoFTe'
i pondeace ". Y. Times.
?, ?, Among the survivors Of the North Amel
- ica. recently foundered between New .!
ID leans and New York, was MISS Mil
n. EOWlpf, OF SyTHcuSes ~. l., "AAO ''
- New Or,ea rs some time ago on account {
=. the sickness of her brother, who belonge
" to the llth N. Y. cavalry. She va Wasched m,
~ him for weeks and saved his lie. Wne
the ssi sdy 0pss sa she refused eas
Ler brother. and was 3e. Until sI the o secTh P
W na,res Of those lost by the North Amerit
ls % are not y yet ascertainea, as the descripti,
I'd lists Of the soldiers were al lost. Firee .s
ct soldiers, five ladies and the en'ire s;. crew
yer the North America escaped. Hosplt
Ger Steward L. D. Walker, who was amor
the lost, was to have been marrleo on u
,ed arrival in New York.
OF --e <s---- :.
E A Memphis letter thus mentions the II
ig- ducements that Tennessee presents
NY Northern emigrants: .'The soil has ex.r u
: at delightful cushing streams; its miner
,ok wealth of coal, iron and other valuable pr
sks ducts is inexhaustible. Its climate IS mi
d). and saiubrious, exempted from the drou.
la I no hlapk storms op0 tqrriblo DriVAtlC