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From the 90th Ohio.Is ( AMP N'kAK Si..VI K SI ; \ Tl SS )NOV. 17 th FG-. \Df\rH lu.d:—We a- trulv Iranted what a day may bring forth, forhi mv la.^t letter I stated that we woddprobably stay at G iag«w !ur a while,but the verv next «!av, we were on ourroad for Gallatin, Term. On the 10thwe crowed from Kentucky into Dixieproper (Tenn.) from Gallatin, we tookthe Lebanon road un i crossed the Gamberland river on the morning of the lllth,iu a cold drizzling rain, and in the evening encamped on the left ol the Lebanon and Nashville pike, but instead ofruing to Lei anon as we supposed, weto .k the pike in the direction of £a\h-ville, a’.-l wen- march** i into, I aver springs whc: • it seems a generalconcentration of tioons is going on forwhen we, of Smith s Divi-ion a rivewe found Wood’s and Crittenden’s corpsthere, this j Tee is within a! out twentymil* - of Nashville. The hih on ever\»i b* of the roa i are whinni 1 with tents,and the place pre-ents an appearancemore like a vast city than an encampment. (fudging from the appearance ofthings, I am led to the coneltndon»some great movement is on f(f.strong pickets are out on every side,'andall the other necessary precautions aretaken to guard us against surprise. Thtenemy is about, but in what force I amunable to say, but of one fact 1 am certain, Morgan’s band is prowling aroundcatching up our straglers,The opportunities fora poor private tosarmuch concerning the state of affairsis limited indeed. a - general thing liecan speak with certainty, only of thosethings that come under his own personalobservation, and for me to attempt toww%ive all that I hear would be nonsense.therefore 1 shall not guess at what weare likely to do, or what the enemy has»n*\ *«• N ioing, but will only g,v•• '• itI know to be true, and that withoutcomment. Of what is going on in camplean speak, and to that I shall now turnmy attention.wr*the IK )tii is pretty well used up, on anaverage, about half of the hoys are unal hlor doty, the one everlasting, nnchancable diet is still going on, which of itself,Ois enough to make any well man sick.The men are constantly grumbling onaccount of our poor fare, but it bringsnothing better, if beef an I beans andsuch like were issued occasionally, itwould changethe appearance of the sceneabout the Surgeon’s tent door, when the 1sick call is made.Yesterday morning we witnessed thePrint burial in the honors of war, it wasthat of ShedrLk Wroten, of CaptainR nve’s company; poor fellow, we committed his body to the cold grave, in astrange land, far from home and friends,where perhaps no other eye that everknew him, will ever gaze upon the littlemound again, and we though who nwill that mallied drum beat my knell?Ala-! God alone knows. On la*t Friday Col. Ross and Cant, i’la k an 1 ev-eral others that we left sick at C’rab Orchard, came up. The Colonel is not wellvet. I ut thinks he will lie nLh* tn ln*r
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Washington Fayette County Herald
Washington, Ohio, US
Thu, Nov 27, 1862
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