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MARTINSVILLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JUNE 4,1 864.State Ticket.: governor,P . MORTONKNANT GOV Kit N OH,a A I) BAKER.!ETAI!V OF STATIC,)N TKUSLEI«\Correspondence of the GazetteDITOlt OF STATIC,55 B. MrCAKTY.SUKER OF STATK,I. MONK I SOX.rOKXEV GENERAL,E. WILLIAMSON.IT HI. IC IX STRl»l.’TI ONUK W. HOSS.OF SUPREME COURT,S. FRAZER, l\ ELLIOTT,2S A. KAY,L1 0. GREGORY.OF SUPREME COURT,at US NOBLE,;r of supreme COURT,MIN HARM SON.CCTORS AT LARGE,. GOODING, W. THOMPSON.TATE ELECTORS,amcs 0. Denny, of Knox ; uigland, of Spencer, rus F. Nixon, of Clarke;•Vestor, of Orange.nry Prichard, of Barthol-1011 Evans, of Lawrence.I eorge Sexton, of Hush; U. Ter, of Franklin, lenj. F. Claypool, Fayette ; . Mcllctt, of Henry.onatlian .1 .Wright, of Mor-j. Green, of Shelby.J ohn Osborn, of Putnam; ST. Wright, of Parke, t. P. Davidson, of Tippcca-L Gregory, of Warren. Tames B. Bclford, of White; itierncy of Porter.-Daniel It. Dickinson, of De b Kilbourne, of Elkhart.-1 ohn M. Wallace, of Grant;Letter from the 70th Indiana.Field Hospital, May 17th, 1804.Friend Call is :—In order to correct any false reports that maybe circulated in relation to the late eaxualities in the 70th Indiana, I will endeavor to give you the facts pertaining to the ease. On Saturday and Sunday wc were, under a hot. tire for seven hours. On Saturday the regiment lost ii killed and J J wounded : Killed, Win. W. Weaver; wounded, .John B. Asher and Daniel Davidson—from Morgan county.—Latter-Day DemocracyDavidson’s wound was very slight, and he is now waiting on his wounded companions in the hospital. Sunday’s light commenced about half-past one o’clock in the afternoon, where the rebels had repulsed our men the evening before. Gen. Hooker moved his corps from the centre to the extreme left, at which time we were all formed in line of battle by battallions on masse, at forty paces, with bayonets fixed. Our brigade was in the centre; tfd brigade, on the left; 2d brigade, Col. Coburn, oil our right. The old 70th went in gallantly, led by our noble Colonel. Gen. Hooker* says there never was such successful fighting, under so murderous a lire, as we made. I will now give you the names of the killed and wounded belonging to Co. II.. fromMorgan county, during the two days’ fighting: Killed, Scrgt. W. 11. Gibbs, privateWin. W. Weaver. Wounded : Corporal H. Cox, privates W. S. Cramer, John B. Asher, E. L. Kay, Hiram Yoyles, Robert Wheeler, John T. Hammans and Daniel Davidson. I was also wounded—shot just below the knee, and got a slight rip in the side with the beak of a musket. My sword was knocked out of my hand, either with a canister or a piece of shell. Lieut. Record is safe. While 1 was being carried olf the held, he was rallying Co. ii., to “go in on their muscle.” Hammans’ wound was but a slight scratch, and he has re-joined his company. As I am suffering considerably from pain, I am unable to give you further particulars. 1 hope the sympathies of our friends arc with us all, both well and suf-feriinr. Lieut. Hardenruook,Co. H., 70th Indiana Yols.Incidents (One of the strange events, in the' history of the world, is that Northern men, born and nurtured in the very lap of freedom, under the very shadow of free schools, free speech, a tree, press, and free institutions of every kind, should, in the maturity of manhood, lend all their powers to foster and perpetuate an institution which is oppressive to both the white and the black man anti inimical to all the best interests of the human family. What rendors it still more strange, is that thinking and reflecting .Southern men, who have spent their lives amidst slavery, are now anxiously struggling to free themselves and their country of the evils which slavery has brought upon them. Philosophy can give no reasonable explanation of such unnatural conduct. It can be accounted for only on the principle that partisan and selfish interests have so controlled the minds ol'certain people as to render them incapable of perceiving the right. What candid man, of ordinary intelligence, after reviewing the history of pro-slavery Dctn-ocracy in the North, for the past few years, could for a moment doubt, if that party was in power, that it would make a dishonorable compromise with the traitors now in arms against the government?— That it would give new guarantees for slavery, the very cause of the war and all its concomitant evils V If Democrats are Union men, as they profess to be, why is it that all the mobs and riots in the North, in opposition to the measures of the government, have been brought about by the Democratic party? Union men, really known as such, have no difficulties of this kind; and, for the best reason in the world—they support and sustain the government. Why is it, also, that all the .Southern sympathizers in the North are members of the Democratic party ? Why is it that the leaders of that party, in the South, are now the leaders of the rebellion? Why is it that the members of both houses of Congress, of that party, constantly endeavor to throw every possible obstacle in the way of the successful prosecution of the war and crush-in/'- the rebellion ? Whv do thev denounceOne of the “ Bull! from church in the line of ambulances g A driver told me tha hundred “bully boys hospital. Do you tl coarse and a vulgar from Pleasant Hill— banks of Red River, bloodily through oui where from Alexand and see how it is ref the men who battb be ready to do as I ing. I went to the h wards I found a mn me, for I marked hi while I passed, who left to his own thou me: “I say, you’re a that my dozen yea the world had not w of my nativity, thou self that I was gro\ I told this soldier.I am a Yankee, too,found him a man f; bad Mesh wound in was off just above t the leg, but tell me i said he. I read Sec gram relative to it. fetch’em yet! Old to come to judgmer with it, I guess, infor. Go down by th to that man on the dismissal, and I we;Another “Bully the right” I found red of hair, freckle square of chin, broa not a man with whc in love at first sigh san Jane would idol mance. “Good mo to my salutation. \' who cut me off in tl an instant he made felt that he was pa? a man can whose 1nnnrl T»v Inner P.vno
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Martinsville Morgan County Gazette
Martinsville, Indiana, US
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