The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-04-16

paign against Jackson. After the capture
of Jackson you returned to Vicksburg
where you remained until the defeat Ros
ecrans at Chickamaugua, when you re
turned by transports to Memphis, and
marched across the country to Chattanoo-
ga, where you were engaged in the battle
of Mission Ridge After that battle you
imm ediately started to the relief of Burn
side of Knoxville.
The march and return from this place
to Chattanooga was the most trying on
you of any campaign of the war. In four
weeks you marched two-hundred and fifty
miles in the winter, without rations, eX-
cept what you foraged, and half clad. hav-
ing received no clothing since you left
Vicksburg, and many of you barefooted
But your sufferings were borne with a
manly courage that was certainly never
surpassed by the soldiers of any army.
After you returned from Knoxville you
went into camp at Scottsboro, Alabama,
where almost every soldier in the Regi-
ment enlisted as veterans, to serve until
the close of the war.
In the spring and summer of 1864 you
participated in the campaign against At
lanta You took an important part in
every battle in that campaign from Resa-
ca to Jonesboro, having lost in the cam
paign nearly half of your effective force
in killed, wounded and missing. After
the fall of Atlanta you marched with
Sherman to the sea, participating in the
capture of Fort McAllister and Savannah.
Early in 1865 you started with Gen. Sher-
man in his march through the Carolinas
aiding in the capture of Columbia, South
Carolina, and participating in the battle
of Bentonville.
After a short rest in camp at Goldsboro
North Carolina, yon marched with Gen.
Sherman against Raleigh, near which
place the army of Gen. Joe Johnston sur
rendered to Sherman, it being the last
rebel army of any magnitude in the field
You marched by the way of Richmond
to Washington City and after participant
ing in the grandest review of an army
that the world has ever seen you were or
dered to Louisville KY, from which place
you were ordered to Little Rock, Arkan-
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ed mustered out of the service. You
were discharged from theservice at Camp
Dennison having served in the army al
most four years, after having travelled Ov-
er six thousand miles, fought in sixty
seven battles, and skirmished and lost in
action sixty officers and men, and had two
hundred and sixty-four officers and men
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our flag and country, and your history is
one of which each one of you may justly
feel proud.
Permit me to add in conclusion the
hope that the flag that you helped to save,
may long wave over our country, the en-
blem of true liberty and greatness, with
no star dimmed, and may you, its noble
defenders, in the course of your coming
lives, enjoy as much of happiness as is
awarded to humanity, and when your
physical mortality is ended may you be
permitted to join our patriot comrades
who have preceded us to the sun bright
cline of eternal felicity.
A letter from Gen. Sherman read, ex-
pressing regret that he could not be here. The
boys re ceived the expression with cheers for the
writer.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, March Is, 1885.
H. c. Miller, Esq, Jackson, Ohio.
Dear Sir:-I am very sorry, but cannot undertake
to come for your reunion of the 9TH of April.
OF course remember well the Regiment, and am
glad to know they remember me. Wishing them one
and all long life and happiness,
am sincerely. your friend,
W.T.. SHERMAN.