Year: 1864

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/ jOiesdnot little.


/ 7 also rejoice that the State in which I
was born gave thirty thousand majority
for the uncompromising truly loyal ticket,
and expects thirty five thousand Of ma
I jority form the soldiers vote, my heart is
glad. Then remember am in a State
that once rebelle1 against the best govern
meut on the face of the earth, and think
Tam a citizen Of loyal Ohio, Irepeat that
my heart Is glad.


One day of last week was visited by
my acquaintance, from CedarvilIe, Robert
Ustiek, he informed ne that the loyal
people of the Seventh Congressional Dis
triet IF Ohio had elected Hon. S Shellabar-
ger to Congress overIitlle Sunset Cox, and
now the sun has set with him, and gone 50
far below the political horizon that it will
not rise ag in very soon, if ever, and 1
pray it may not ever, for when it did rise
it did not give much light.


would like to know how his friends
feel now, after being beaten so badly, for
they rejOiced SO much over the very
small victory they had gained over US IN
1861. bow do you feel now, you who had
so much to say then. We have beaten
you over too thousand, and if all the sol
diers in the army from our district are
like these who voted here in Memphis,
little Sunset had better be asham ed and
hide, for the vote here was almost unani-
nous against him


Twas not permitted to vote for Mr..
Shellabarger, but am satisfied, yet would
have been much more so, had I been per
mitted to do so.


On the day of election I went to the
polls in Memphis, asked the judges of the
election if I could be permitted to vote,
and stated to them whatmy position was in
the camp, after reading of the construc-
tion of the law to me, and showing to
whom it applied, I saw l was excluded,
and l had not any thing to say, so am
satisfied that Sunset has been beaten, yet
I would have felt better in my heart if /
could been permitted to have had a vote
against him, 1 am rot only glad, but I
am very proud of my State eleoting seven
teen Congressmen out of nineteen. Oh;
thou noble Buckeye State, how nobly hast
thou done in showing thysalf to be so truly
loyal to the best government in the
world


How sad will the rebs feel when they
hear Of the result of the election, so few of
those who sympathize with them, and so
many against them.


I have couversed with many soldiers
who are from different par's of the western
States, and but seldom do 1 hear the voice
ola Mcclellan man, and the few who are
for little Mac acknowledge old Abe will
be the next President, but they cannot
vote fer him.


From what I can learn, expect Mac
will take the vote of New Jersey, ano
that is all the state the soldiers will let
him have, and almost all the soldiers
whom I see who will vote for him arc
from that State.


We will wait, looking earnestly for
the news in less than three weeks,
who will be chosen for the the next
President. You in Ohio will have it
in less than twenty four hours after
the time the polls will have been
closed, but we down here must wait,
not having such facilities as are in
the north.


The loyal men in the south, and
more especially in the army, will hail
the news with joy when they hear that
old Abe has been reelected to sit in
the chair at Washington, they know
he has been tried and is true, and
they want him to serve them in en-
gineering the matters of State for this
great nation, the like of which does
not exist on any other part of the
globe.


The weather is beautiful here, the
dust as abundant as in the summer
months in Ohio, yet the nights cold.
The weather is very much like Sept.
in the north, from the first until the
twentieth. We have not had any
rain for three weeks. I have seen
but one frost, that was on last Sabbath
morning, quite heavy, yet I have been
told some had fallen previously.


VIII some of my old acquaintances
of Greens County please write to me?
I will be glad to welcomed letter from
them.


Address Sd BattaIltan, Sd Z: S.
Heavy Artillery (oolored in Fort
Pickering, Mempis Tennessee. Be sure
to endorse thus.