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1IFrom General Smith’s Division,In Camp nf.ar Glasgow Ky., November, 5th, 1862.Ed. Messenger—This night is such a one as makes those within comfortable houses draw their chairs closer to the blazing fire and congratulate themselves that hard necessity does not compel them to face the November storm. The winds whistle through the beech grove in which we are encamped, shaking our cotton houses, and the cold rain forcing its way down through it apparently striving to quench the hundreds of fires of the fourth division, that fanned by the wind burn in spite of it. Thanks to our tents we arebut little inconvenienced by the storm.— jlt;When 1 last wrote you we were without them at Rockcastle ford, but the weather p was then pleasant in the day time and themen were then only compelled to endure |ithe nipping frosts of the early morning. From thence the Division moved to Somerset, by the way of Mt. Vernon, the weather continuing pleasant until the head of the Division had reached a point mid way between the two last mentioned I * places. Then a slow rain changed to J * snow during the evening, and when morn- J r, ing came it laid six inches deep on the Is ground. The soldiers without tents, and j« many of them without blankets and baro-footed, had nothing to protect themselves with but their bivouac fires. After eating their half rations (for after the government, by law, had increased the soldiers rations during the war, it seems to havebeen the aim of the Department commanders to keep them on half rations) the troops resumed their march for Horn-merset, the snow and mud in the roads soon becoming a mortar bed, the strong, the barefooted, ami the sick unprovided with transportation, all pressing on withtheir best will, but the last, of whom there were not a few, soon falling behind; every ambulance and empty wagon having been previously filled with the worst tcases, by the order of General Smith.—•li s0tVtle0 e tltiei1aUtlt;wbw
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Athens Messenger
Athens, Ohio, US
Thu, Nov 20, 1862
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