The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-07-27

''hawked iin9 whole regiments an6
broke brigades and divisions which
were never broken In three years %!
tIOtOnIdc fighting, (Which decimated
the ranks, broke tho confidence and
ifuSed up the generals OF, the best diyi-
sions Of Early proud army, and by as
certaining the force of the enemy, pre-
pared the way for the subsed duentbril-
liant successes of the army Of West
Virginia at Winchester. and Fisher
Hill, IN whiohf fights. again. this com4
!nand mad IItha ihonOrio of first seeing the
backs of the enemy. The State and the
country can mover repay Colonel (IloW
Genernl1 sDn%al, for his untiring faith
tulness and deYotiomto ihis command
in. gradually JoNere6ning earl$ 6lfsaa.
Nantnges of drill, and so deVeloping,
proving and ILLUSTRATING the ilfttife gal
lantry, courage and constancy,0f the
young men of the new State of West
first soldiers. q. n.
/ ltis to his efforts and soldieFly genius
and capacity Tor making, and then
I '':Jtghttn0'' soldiers, that IS to be attrf4
Duted the change of mil itary7 1ti-
nent in the country-fr from sneeti1e Sc
cesh to Gearing secesh, and from patron
age of other parts of our army to ienl-
GUS carping,t as for example, after the
brilliant flank movement of the Army
Tor West Virginia, mt Winchester and
FISHER Hill, and its surprise ut Cedar
Creek Perhaps it is excusable for this
Regiment, to feel some pride in tho SOL
dierly sagacitY of its Lieut.. Colonel
Carroll, then Captain, who nnticipated
Gordon's surprise on tlle1Bth of October,
the afternoon before, and posted his own
Hegimental picketS advance, was
laughed at for his isanticipations, but dis
covered the attack atsiI O'Clock A, NJ,
sent word to his Brig ale commander Of
InIV Nn.tNS S.n1n = Il
would have been in time to have arous-
ed the whole army. He, in the mean7
time took the liberty to save his own
40 men, and marched with them lIln-
harmed between two attacking lines of
fire, up to his place in the line of battle,
while all thought his entire command
must be captured.
In preparing such sketch of the ex-
pioits and prevailing spirit ofaregiment
1t seems impossible to give any i'm
preston TO your renders or any of
our friends, without conveying a partial
one, or seeming to neglect the points of
interest of whole division of regi-
ments: 1t Will take the next genera
ton OF poets and historians to tell of
all the "hair-breadth 'scapes by field
and flood" of various detachmentR.i
parties and individuals. lBL,
Perhaps il is right to deem that the
LIST veterans and their former non vet
eran comrades of the old 9Th, have as
much proprietorslip in the saVagolittle
BerryVille night battle, as anybody else
has. They and their friends will be
interested to remember how suddenly
and peremptorily the bugles sounded
to "tnll in" in n rude and ruthless
manner tearing us away from our quiet
supper of honest roasting ears, and
hurrying us out of that homelike little
hollow where We had peacefully en-
camped four times previously in our
various undulatiOns up and down that
renowned valley Of the Shadow or
Death, (Shenandoah.) We were still
wondering, when the rapidly APP
prOaching picket-tiring admonisied us
that somebody's coming" and the
shells of the enemy's cannon began to
screech and "pile into" the little'Valley
which we had just left, to the great
damage of our deserted green corn
Three hours before there hnd been a
cavalry train, and MS it was now dusk,
our dear misguided Confederate
had just come in huste from Winches-
ter after them. The desperate charge,
and rush, and struggle, and cInmbcring
up that stone wall, not knowing how
many lines might be advancing, was
perhaps the most sudden call for
courage we had met. The old 5th Vir-
ginia's time was nenrly ont, but they
! fight together was our best.
a few days after the Veterans nc
companied their non-veterun comrades
few miles TOWARD home-to Charles
ton-to give them u parting hand-they
to ''see home and friends once more'-
and the Veterans to return to the now
seemingly deserted little camp without
them. Just mt the parting of the two
lines the commencing boom of the enc
mics cannon toward Murtinsburg-ad
ded little pHthos and earnestness to
past memories and home messagcs-re-
minding each "Hne" of what somewhere
on their way from and others on their
way to.
The commander will. not forget that
as some jOyously took their way home
+-the Veterans cheerfully and nncom-
plainingly "faced about" toward camp
to the sound of the enemy's canuon.
each step sounding nearer as they ap-
preached their place in line. Then fol-
lowed the Winchester, Fisher Hill and
Cedar Creek fights, golden victories to
the country in two senses and showed
1.-THE beginning of theend." .4lIiS
But that did not end the Veterans pa
ttent picketing i'll mid-winter, in deep
SHOWS, without socks and often with
out coats. Sheridan's army formed n
fence ofmen, night and day eleven miles
long, from mountain to mountain, be-
ing IL guard against NIoseby and any
repeated surprise. This in common with
other Regiments.
Not in common however, with others,
they marched slept in the mud and built
winter quarters six times during the
winter. ..'s-a1
Last May they received the com
mendation of the Inspector of the Army
of the Shennndoah,as the best drilled,
equipped, and most complete soldierly
I appearing Regiment of any of Ham
cocks Army of the Shenandoah, then
numbering some 10000 men. l'f
gade that is mustered. out in w vheelinS,
it is perhaps worthy to add, that on
our late peaceful march to and from
tStaunton, the citizens gave his
Brigade the credit of being the best
behaved men of either army that had
ever been encamped there. Property,