Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-01-25
FROM DELAWARE.
Correspondence of the. .Statesman.l
DELAWARE, O., January %, 1856

ljorrespondence OF the.StatesmanJ
DELAWARE, o., January 23 1865.
EDITORS STATESMAN: In your to-day's
issue, notice communication from this
place, from a former member of the p" S6Sh
o. V. L." commanded by Colonel b. Burns,
the present Democratic candidate for Con-
gress in the Eighth District, which needs
a little correction. 1 had the honor to be
a member of the Seth, and l am proud OF it.
I was a Republican of the deepest dye
voting that ticket regularly from the fall OF
1862 down to aud including the State elec-
tion of 1865, consequently cannot be ae-
cused of being 6 Butternutfriend " ofthe
Colonel during the war. l corresponded
regularly with number OF Republican
papers while that regiment was in the
service, also while member of the SSH o.
v. l., and no writer used harsher terms in
speaking offleading Democrats always in
cluding Colonel Burns) than did /. New
ortheless am constrained to say, there was
no more brave honorable. high-minded,
moral, upright Colonel at the head of any
Ohio regiment during the eventful sum
mer and fall of 1862. He was brave to a
fault, kind to his men, who nearly
all loved him as father. A number of us
did not like mis- politics, still we were COM
PEELED to admire the bold and decided, yet
kind manner in which he maintained the
principles taught him by the fathers OF
blood-bought Republic. He went out
moral, upright christian man; unlike many
Others who wore the eagle, he maintained
his integrity to the end, and returned as
he went. He returned in time to take part
in the campaign of '62, which resulted in
preventing this District being misrepresen-
ted in Congress by j. H. Goldman, much as
the 4th o. WI. boys wished to get rid OF
him in that Regiment. Ht
| But what wish to correct is this: The
writer says ''the seth was not within fifty
miles of the rebels" Has my brother for
gotten the last day of August, 1862, when
four companies of our regiment and two OF
the 9Th Virginia laid all day and all night
on their arms in the Court House and the
streets of Clarksburg to repel threatened
attack of jenkins on the large amount oi
Government stores there; how it rained
during the night, rendering most of ouI
arms useless?i Has he forgotten In what 6
terrible panic the s7th Pennsylvania Infan-
try was thrown into by jenkins at Buckhan-
non, only % miles away, and how they
fell pell-mell, hurry scurry back to Clarks
burg. Has he forgotten that jenkins
captured Weston, only twenty miles
distant, in the same raid I? Has he forgotten
the march the Major made, with the six
comp nies what did not go TO Parkersburg
march to Beverly, and was so close to
large rebel force under Imboden that our
pickets were found to be within the cute
rebel pickets when relieved the followin.
morning. Better boys than those of thu
seth were not mustered into the Unitet
States service, and as we may never NEE
again this side of eternity, let Justice bt
done to both commissioned and uncommis
stoned. though the heavens fall. Methink
the Lieut." of the "Journa" is cousin
German to one who, on the evening O
August 3lst, 1862 placed his good clothes
in his hand trunk, and left orders with hi
servant, little orphan boy left as one o
the mp guards, that in case we were de
fea.e ed, to seize the trunk. take up the hol
low and follow a northwest cours
until he came to Ohio, for by NJ
means must his good clothes fall il
the hands of the enemy. OF cours
that gentleman votes the bondholder'
ticket against Colonel Burns. As to ne
groes, while &c" Company was at Parkers
burg, the Kanawha army, under General
D. Cox, passed through en- route for Wash
ington, and a half-s tarved, naked littl
contraband, stolen by an officer of tina
army somewhere, and deserted by him
came into our camp, and was cared for b.
one of our officers and brought to This
place, when we came back to be mustered
out. In return for this kindness, the dar
key stole some money and other property
from his benefactOr and some 9th er mem
bers of the family, and decamped.
In conclusion, would say, let the sur
viying members of that regiment homo
themselves, their God, their country, ant
their brave old Colonel, by going to tn
polls on the 9th inst., and voting for hin
for Congress, and God will bless them.
Yours truly, r."
4s v,J d. w. G. LUGENBEEL.