The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-01-30
To G. L. Vrllaadig,tm, Edsoa b.
OMs, Henry Clny Deoa, and Others
Committee,

Il Wv euOoc Wllcu uctt suitcTcu lOf c1u
Shcnce sake doorin the late croosade
| and TO minglc my tears with them j,
received. Ex 1 rcceevcd your note
| and red it my snfferins come back to
| my mind go wildly that the fUuntins
| nv the CRATE deep was onsecled. and
| and | wept scaldin teers. | wept ez
| thot how / suffered, how he'd was
| ted in battels, the time wich I SO much
II needed in ftlrtherin the cause in wich
I've wux all engaged whom Ithot how
for three long weeks l wasted away
Ipinin forffee air outside NV my pris-
on walls how, for all that time,
| wuz exposed to the horror Of seein
| laround me feends in human form
| clad in bloc l alluz detested; how
WE compelled to listen, perpetooally
o sich songs ez:
ws'llrally round the flag, boys,
We'llrally wunst again,
shoutin the battle cry nv Frsedom!'
| And the other detestable air wich
never hear without thrill nv hor.
ror-
W Tol,n Rrnvn,s hos1v Iles N ,cou,dar;p In
the sr.vs
But his soul is marching on
Wich liz. And also how for three
long week 1 wus compelled to live
no, not live, but egzist-with not a
drop Nv anythin stronger or more
revivin to drink than coffee; endoo-
nm the namelis horrors which follers
tho sudden takin away uv that on
| wich we live, and wich our moral, q
vol - physikil nachers depend
But ont Of regard to my feelinA
close these narrowing re6eccshens.-
Shood / dwell onto em, I shood be
entirely unnamed. Whom think
Of them three weeks without whis-
key, reason totters onto her throne,
and I wonder that I am still alive.
Trooly I am 3 spared monument.
It would be ont Of place in this
connsckshon for me to dwell for 1
moment upon the oacrifces hev
made and the tortsrs to wich / hey
been subjected. hev l may say it
hu'nuay, sullesc ga Pr0ssbiy saOrs shsn
my nvsne lof1o1s company Nv mar.
W ZOE ngeteoosnis sake. " hrst
snetS nv feorai tyranny Wux IN 62.
mM do remember the day. A
drelt w9s impedlng The tyranni-
cai Linkin, revolvin 10 the gorgeous
naiis ~ 0esposac power q Washing
too, nc issnood ms oppressive decree
ior "tnree hundred Thousand more. I.
went, conndentiy, 70 the eggsamin.
ers oms ior my eggsempehen, but in
the face Nv the most positive asshoor
ance o. my part tnat ! he'd Oronkee-
tis ana nver complaint at That time,
ana neo q dinerent times Nv my life
deiriam treemens, WIZ iaft TO scorn
ana pronounced ex SOUND ez . brick.
determined not 70 imbrue my hands
"a the olood Nv my brethren nv the
south ! sauddered st two yees.
FIRST, ~ eeing punctured myself, and
secona q Puncturln any nv my
friends nv the confederacy. There
iore, maze my way ex best mite
70 tnat refuge rom the persekutor:
Canaoy. Need ! state how 4 walked
from my tnen place uv residence TO
netro't, ana now ! swam across the
river ~ teat point on . iog, and now
wnen ON etrikin the sacred soil, I
struck = taboo and shook my INST at
the stars ana striPes, wlch saw wa
van on totner side No. FOR al ov
700 ncv oone It, canada somewhere
eise. Inc drait wuz over, and l re-
turned suPpos,n It WAS aul rite
Skarceiy ned ! reached my humble
nome wnen wux arrestid and drag.
geo 20 minyary camp. ! had bin
oxaW9d' ana ! wuS taken rs . desar-
! did not. servo tho, huther
snaa socasIy redrai muskit | de-
~ ~. go ~ ernlss ana wat military
Ms ~ see, ! saw " the Con-
!edrlt IAnKs. mt that WIZ short.
Inc Aufnei nv my regiment appreci.
aan my ay'e, ofuered me 70 90 dis
cnslkeus on sno skorc tnat Good 90
sno Conie0risy more good operatin
Wisa sno De'aocfisy o. sne north than
cC0o casfyln the muskits N the
1nks 81 nor oravc defenders,
ne W. Pleaseo 20 say tnat waxunt
w0asn : % = 2 soidier. anyhow.
~ second inkafselash1n was ava
Molc tkyM naenc. hcd Dan called
!ool snl.s Anu orli. : county wlch he'd
uc.oln.cu, = comc wea, come wo.
.noy ncscr Hocu, under any circum-
.Ino.s ea submit 70 De dragged TO