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Correspondence of the Herald.illiFrom the 90th Ohio.COwIis Camp Near Glassgow. Ky. ) th-a*.'*1—Nov. 7th 186-2. f kiDear FIerald.—I am glad to have an erother opportunty to write to you; my *i- Celence during the past few weeks, has not n, been any fault of mine, but the gentle kireaders of the Herald must remember djthat we “sogers” cannot always do just as blt;we want, for oftentimes vve feel in a writ- tcing mood, and would willingly make thehumble pen the means of talking to those gat home, but then our time is not our nown, and when ever Uncle Sam calls, we jrof course must heed, and prepare to do tlhis bidding, and of all his willing ser- jjvante in the field, we of the army of Kentucky, have had the least opportunity to I s,write to friends, or communicate with jpapers, or do anything else desirable in j.this line. “Forward! Forward!” has ejbeen our motto for the last month and aahalf, from city to city, from county to pcounty, from mountain to mountain, we ehave marched, regardless of heat or cold, tlregardless of water or food, sometimes iwith plenty of rations, and oftentimes hon half and quarter rations, and some- ktimes none at all. We have marched atta.all hours of both day and night, and by icour own ‘terrible grit,’ have gained the vcommendable appelation of “the wood-1 nen men of the 22d brigade,” the “bloody oand ferocious 22nd,” c. c.To think of writing letters, or getting cmail under such circumstancea, was j cmerely a fancy if the brain. But as it is,it is, and what is past can’t be helped, jtand to improve in the future is all that is \ cleft. All writing materials have beenextremely scarce, especially ink, which 1could not be purchased, a few weeks ago,at any price, but readers, whenever it is 8possible for us to do so, you can hear fromus through these columns.On the 20th of last month we gave up\the chase after the rebels, after we had tpursued them to within forty miles of {Cumberland Gap. We then, of the 22d!iBrigade, (who have been acting the part .of cavalrymen scouts,) turned our atten- j lt;tion to the Balt Works down in Cla\r Icounty, eight miles distant from the jcross roads. The road was a drearvmountain one, and had it not been for anoccasional but or a corn field, standingon the edge, (for indeed they appear sohere) we might have thought ourselvesin some of the out of the way districts ofBrazil. The march was accomplishedin one day by most of the men, butamore tired set of scouts you never saw.On the 21st, wo began to demolish thesalt, by carrying it out of the houses andscattering it over the ground; oue of theproprietors estimated the amount destroyed, at thirty thousand bushels and Ipresume that it is pretty correct. Theworks were not burned, but so damaged,that it will take a vast amount of laboro repair them so that they can be usedkgain. On the 24th we started back for be cross roads and thence for Mt. N er-lon. The latter place we reached abouttoon on the 26th. The men appearedretty well worn out, for a snow of aboutour inches in depth fell while we weremcaraped for the night at Rock Castleliver, ten miles from Mt. Vernon, which•endered it very bad for footmen. Forwo days the roads continued bad, whenhey began to grow better as we ap-roached the low country. We had ourents along with us, so that we fared tol-?rably well as regards a place to sleep.In the mean time the rest of the divis-on (Smith’s) had left for Columbia, toivhich place^of course, we had to head.5cant of provisions, and wearied, wenarched forth and re-joined he divison at Columbia on the evening of the50th. On the first of this month we leftColumbia for Glasgow, at which place5V6 arrived on the 4th. 1 he distance thatfve have traveled within the last month,I shall not attempt to compute, but shallleas e the kind reader to get the map ofthis State and measure it at his leisure.Bui of one fact we are pretty well assur-jd, that it is useless for us to try to catchthese hounds of the South, they seem tohave a peculiar fear of the Yankees, themere mention of which will make thestart to their feet and look which way to
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Washington Fayette County Herald
Washington, Ohio, US
Thu, Nov 20, 1862
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