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Kentucky t •om’**pointencc.Camp Wood, Ky., Dec. 20th 1861.J. W. Kau.RY—Dbaii Sib : — Yoursuli and pa* tivdi.-i will excuse rue tor le t writing more froqau tidy. ( wlien 1 have nothing of intercht t » relate : but hop- , lug to be able to glenu snore incidents that will inti* rent I write you again.Wo were in Carnj Nevin two m.'U'.hs and bad^omo unpleasant experience*. The troop* suffered somewhat for overcoats, but finally received good I ■ iiwMi, and blamed no one lor the delay. The rations wore suflleiont in quantity, except for u few a days when railroad communication wan destroyed in consequence of a railrmul bridge being a wept ' away,) but the heldiem did not appreciate the quial-I ity. * They complained that they got more fat pork ] tiiaii they should have had. aiol not n» much In’ef * j a* they were entitled to. Another thing, all the lt;bread wo received wan hard. Somesav hard bread t is in *re healthy for u» t’l in ligk; would he, but ex- « perienc.* proves that ttiht in not the Oin. iWe did notcutue to war for case or comfort, and i contend Util we have not vet endured hardships. -. though num.* of our experiences have born unpl cas ant : yea. hitter, for though we have led been in ! battle, wo liuvu lost upwards of thirty men. The I prevailing dia cases are typhoid, (in n malignant form.» hiflious fevers, and pneumonia. Sometiin .s our strongest men are attacked and ncilh r medicine or nursing appear to produce any efleet; for thev decline rapidly and die.This sickness may Ui account m! for In pari from the fac t that hut few of the men ore acquainted with c»*»kery, conHcquenlly their f‘w*d is hot well prepared, and man • of the men do not take proper care of themselves. Cntnp Nevin wan a very unhealthy location, and the watitr tlmt whs us -d m e»t of the lime was unfit fur use ; but wo had no order to move and if we hud we uiight have got into u fight and lost nearly m« many iueu in battle us we lost in hospital, bosadea killing u few retsds.The 11*111 did move on the V»lh hast., and ore now at Munfor,Uville, but l ie r.bohj wcrj no longer tm-camped here when we arrived.tin the Mth our Itegimoiit was paid, up to Die lira! of November, and the buys Were not displeased by it one bit.There was a slight bkirmish on Sund ay lath,he tween a small number of the 22nd Indiana and some rebels. The hobsian hud two men wounded, and one taken prisoner. The rebels had at least one , killed, and a Imnie captured. On tin 17ih there was quite a battle between s.*veil rolwl U gina nts, j mnl six hundred and liflv of llw32ud Indian. The , rebels came up on the railroad and pUnt-d a battery of four guiH and th Jojaonton a few u»*n a 4 a decoy. They wero ton sueivs.dul in entrapping our1 incu, but they merely “caught aTnriar” us the sequel w ill ahovr. On* men wore enclosed in a horseshoe. with rebel cavalry. Texan rangers,! charging on them, but they gave the rebels “ J.-s-sic,*’ aiid sav if they had land U00 more men they would have captured the eulire rebel tons.'. Inittorr and .til. We Wt eleven men on the field, three have since died, and two more arc mortally Wuiind-| cd. The rebel loss is not lens than three tiuius ours and one of them a Colonel. The battle wwn 1 fought 2or 3 miles from camp, but the filing could be hoard distinctly and we could see the sauoke ri*o at ftvery discharge lt;»f Artillery.As might bo muppos-'d thin produced no little commotion iu Oump. i'hc lUth 0. V. and the 3'Jlh In I-inna V. were quickly in i*-*nkrt und sr«m going to the oceUO of action on double quick, followed hv tlaree other Regimen U. The relaels raw these rc-, enforcements crossing the hills hefa re tl.ev gut out i of camp and boat a» hasty retreat, -* that we had : no chain a: at them.The 32nd Indiana is a Herman Regiment commanded bt ( oh Wiltick w ho Iiur steal servos in Klimpc, and ilcn. Johnson savs they are the besf drilled men he cvur saw. They were cuc.mipud | aerosN the river separate from the mam army, j I which account* for their being in the light alone.Iluekncr Undoubtedly meant to destroy the rail road bridge across Urveu river which we uro re- | pairing, (and which Ifi* partially ditatruyadano* be fore,) and thereby pivveiat an* In on going forward. , Maybe hr wanted to collect rent fur Ids farm. el.se 1 I he certainly U g-*uun»t«s, for some nl our men get h Corn there, and all it waits in the husking.Our sick am being sent U» IgMlJsvilltf as fast as | they ore able to go, which looks like preparing to | take carv of wounded iuoii.Youra truly, A. P. DONALDSON.
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The Weekly Perrysburg Journal
Perrysburg, Ohio, US
Thu, Jan 02, 1862
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John Q.
