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three miles From town. About an hour• ’ i • '• ■ t • • * J •*■,!* * t ’ ' ■ - 'after w,e had encamped, a 'soldier from one of, the regunentd in' Camp at town 'Cariie Jhrough our camp, and, learning ■what regiment we were, he said that a* little‘Sergeant, from Co. A of-this reg: iment,'together with three boys of the 5th Ohio, had made their' escape from Lynchburg and had arrived' in town yesterday, the- Sergeant bringing with himi “ O, t , .tl*vnf flio QQfli C\hYn ; f Iinf.'*»wprnthat are here is excellent, but there is one universal regret among them all: That is that they cannot all go home for a short time as drafting officers. They think that they, won Id have the satisfaction of bringing' “to time several young men who have been living at their ease for the past year, and criticising, the conduct of those who had the courage to go when (hey. were called, and not to wait until- . j ^ • . . . •they were compelled to go. Dthe coldr3 of the 20th Ohio,*that--were they were compelled to go. Drafting, taken at the battle of Port Republic'! 1 It that is wbat we all like to hear of, and we needed no second telling to know that the n9w soon expect to see force enough to little Sergeant was our dear friend Harry sustain us and carry out what we have Fisk. Soon the news spread like wild- commenced. There is but one sentimentgreatofire throughout the regiment* and Harry’s name was on every tongue, and joy was beaming upon every face, for Harry is a favorite throughout the regiment, and especially in Co. A. I immediately rode to town to get him, but he had heard of the arrival .of our regiment, and had. already, started to rejoin it, and had been gone a short time when I arrived. . I soon returned,.and as I neared the camp, I heard a tremendous cheering. Harry bad arrived, bearing with him the colors, and the regiment had. turned out. to welcome him; and judging from, what I heard and afterwards, saw, no person.ever arrived within the lines .of the camp of the 7ththat ever met with warmer welcome than* * • • •did Harry. But let me tell his story—at least give you the outlines—and I hope that we will he able to give him a furlough, lhat he can tell you all himself.— No exertions shall be spared on my part, o the officers of this command. On the morning of the 9th inst., before the battle, Harry was orderecl with ten men to proceed to the right, along the bank of the river, 'to skirmish.- He had been gone but a short time, when the enemy rushed forward upon us, and we were compelled to fall back about one fourth of a mile into the field. With three others he had advanced out oftsight;: the others seeing.-us,.immediately .returned in a-few minutes.The retreat to us of the others was cut'» * » I . . I l X *off, so Harry with his .three men. pushed on down the:- river, .hiding behind the bank, intending to meet us' about four miles from the field, but upon' reaching the road^im, place.of-meeting us as he had expected, he came upon the large force of rebeV ;c’avalry, who immediately took them prisoners. That night they took them about ten miles from the field, where they:kept-them:r:. The.: following day and night they .were.put in a barn arid guards placed' at the door:’• A stand of'colors taken from the ,29th Ohio, was also placed in the same room. During the night the thought* entered Harry’she^d that they had.no. right to that flag; so suiting actions to liis .thoughts, when all had got quiet, he tore-the flag from the: staff and. sewed it up between thecloth' andlirien of bis!jacket,' and.cutupthe-:staff;with.this pocket'knife. (He says.if. anyone; doubts .the difficulty ofthreading a needle-of- a dark night, w’ let them try it.)inquiry' whs'.made; for the; flag, the com-manlier of tlVe'guayd? offering (hirty .dol-lars for, its. recovery;, but no one ..knew^ , I | # f , 0 % * 9 1 f' V * / * m • j ^ ' * I •any thing about it.. The next day they were taken on to Lvnchburg, where theyhave been confined over since. All the time the flag has been jealously watchedby tt arry. He hadarrangements to escape, but finally .succeeded on the night of the 29th of Judy.'He !aric( three others belonging to the6thOhio', arrived on tjie^Slh of the p:fsent month,..having;-traye]jed night and day, making about forty miles a day, and subsisting chiefly on berries, swimming rivers and eluding the enemy. They passed through ’Charlottesville when? a rebel regimentVquartered,’ they passing themselves off for seceshv. They arrived nearly exhausted from hunger and bar,d marching. He gives a- very good account';of -th?' treatment received-' by the prisoners from* thelr’c^k^ Them:were 2,238 of our.: fcroopsj »pnsonefs then-dl of lourregiment—and now ;five remains of Co.“A:7®ehjryWheeler, William Ramsey and Henry W* Smith! all of whom were. quite well' .and had: been-since tbeir^^iyity^alji tryiifg to makd themselves as comfortable as ihp circumstances wift admit of, and lookingfor^^fe’tbe^tin^e wbon they.wUl again-rejoin us.r; Qr.e tb'ing is Evident—their; love“for the rebels is;in no way increased byr,fbeir!.oap.Mvity;.'; Harris now-tbe hero of the'^ai'my in.Virgima^ his.-.iiarae is *sp6ken'by all,* hqd the aot he has just so successfully pgffbrMetf ^ weir«y a nin the history of the rebellion.among us all: The rebellion must be put down, and the only way to do it is to whip them. Send us a few more men, and we will finish what we have undertaken.. Alex. * * *i• f % •Culpepper Court House, Va.,' ; ’ August 11, 1862..Had quite a seyere battle..day before yesterday. Our loss about 500 killed, wounded ami missing. No advantage. - , O . ' ogained on either side. Blit two brigades of our- force were engaged. At night. • t O -j Oour brigade was ordered to the front for picket; had several skirmishes with the enemy during, the night; forty-seven in our regiment wounded—but two serious-1 ; Olv.«. In my company, five: Oron Richards, wounded in thigh; Ezra Gillingham, severe wound in head, missing; Clarence Ball, slight wound in left arm; Henry Riper, in bead, slightly; Jesse Stage, wound in leg, not dangerous. The two forces now-lie within gun-range ofeach other. A hard battle will be fought to-day or to-mo^’ow. The forces are nearly equal; we have about 60,000, Jackson about 70,000. Weather is. very warm; many deaths from coup de solid. Yours m haste,A. B. PATTISON.From the Third Indiana Cavalry.Camp near Fredricksburo, Va., •’ August 8ih, .1862.• » - • , _ “With deep sorrow we are called upon(0 announce the death of Marmaduke•Jm ' ‘ •• ’ •Gyeen, who was killed in .action nearFredricksburg, Aug. 6th. The deceased7 - • j ..a' Ocame into the company almost an entire stranger, but his marilv bearing soon drewo'-..’ • . * _ o.a large circle of friends around him, and latterly won the confidence of all. His kind and affectionate disposition, together with unflinching bravery, and in short, all those qualities which make, the souHrulyuoble, did not pas9 uniioLiced, and be. was chosen as an orderly to Gen. Sullivan. And it was here, while at his ppstt fearlessly carrying a message through the thickest dangers, arid hundreds of bullets aimed at his heart were falling thickly around him, that his friends entreated him to go no farther.,, But still that noble'hearfc-presscd on,Amid the livid death ’ ’ ..That swept from out the cannon’s mouth—A sterii sirocco’s breath.-v*- %\ fHe fivlls—the red blood oozesFrom oiit his wounded head;And there upon that funeral ridge He- fell—and gasped—was dead 1cr;C. F. L.A cisE of horrible superstition in Hun-o-arv is thus narrat d in a letter from RekaT, . ,’; A‘A few days since a fanner residing in the commune of Bazos, denounced his daughtqi^iii-law as a zvitck, and said that it was she who.had.for so long a timeprevented rain frotn falling. He; moreover affirmed that for several inonths.she had neither eaten, drunk norcslept, and that whenever a cloud appeared, in the sky she went out into the courtyard andmade a gesture with'her hand by whielr she drew down the-imoisture to herself, and so'could do without drink. In con-.sequence of the denunciation, the authorities had the woman examined.; by twomidwives,’; who found :on her body . a •witch’s mark of all the colors of the rainbow: • She wits then told I that she must -Submit to be cauterized, and if not,the people * of- the commune would burn her on^a-pile of tborns.: -The unfortunate woman was compelled to allow herself to be cauterized-By’bet own'aunt, with a red hot sitver cpiri and1 with help of a church key. Two days aftiftr Providence sent usa .good fall of rairi,' but there wa6 also hail, which* damaged: the 'corn.' ; That arose, According tcFthe - people * of the ’ - village,from P*?#**1*'cured by; the cauterization
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