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From tlie 136th Ind., Iteg’t. j inWahtrace Tennessee, I i soIJ ulv 5ih ibG4. , . HMr. Editor:—Thinking that the j |t •topic 01 Go=l.Hud vicinity interested | ^ n Company D. 130ill Ind. Vol., would | ^ike io hear from u, L take this op flovtuniiy to write a lew lines for ^ heir intdrmaiiou. A few words in re- i ^ pent to our journey to this place may e of interest to sume, if not to all. Ataiaintliau ipoiis we were marcm-d to' the |• I ’ars. and ordered to make ourselves n» \! slt;louifortabio as possible in common !ret oh t- cars, -Some o: as thought. that U | .♦ I \hat wps w ay L ucie 5rlu treated hia sol- J Jiers it would be some time before he ji 'lad an opportunity of serving us so, tor j lie second lime, ilowever, soldier m i ^ his part oi Rebeidom seem to pieter j ^ he soft side ilia board or brink to a , joft seat * \ bed. Between Indianapo- j is and Jeffersonville, as we were enter- j ^ eriug a small town a ear gave way iu j .he rniddie, owing to the slow motion j ^ jf the train at the lime, no one wascII was into in the night when we nr- j j lived at Jeffersi nviile and the boat not | :eiiier at the wharf to cross over the Ir-'hio River to Louisville, we ull made :»ur beds wherever we could find a vacant place- Two of us wr.iped our--elves no in our blankets and crawled i3*. i*joder a pair of old stairs, and slept or-, the !i cbricks. No sweet music of the nurses j lulled us to sleep. It was nothing more i *1 tthan the so othing of ihe rats and croak. I1in ir of ft O'- s. Alter crossing the river to *^ ' .isLouisville, we had a lit lie experience in |matching a short. distance of about four |\ „ . 1 Irndvs, to Tartar Barracks. We remain-*»ed there two days, and at the expi- ' 1j; ttration of that time our company was ; sent to Shepardsviilo Ky., to guard a! lt;bridge over Salt River. This is one of |i Ithe oldest places in Ky., and is about j_ J (m-rhtcen miles from Louisville. The iIpopulation of the town is about three ihundred. We all wanted to remain there on account of the pleasant location, and its healty atmosphere. We were prepared to resist an attack there; having three twelve pound cannon and a good stock adbesides the advantage of ride pits. Fortune would not per-!mil us to remain there over six days.— j♦ ^We ha i orders to report at Nashville, Iwhich j lace has been elaborately de * « «cri! ed by better pens than mine. It j was our good luck to stay there one day ; Auer marching through the streets I^ *-s .of Nadivilie, we started for Mur- ;*freesboro, where the great battle of ‘Slone River was fought. I had the j pleasing of going over part of the jground where so many brave Indiana Isoldiers itll. jMurfreesboro is so fortified that it may be considered almost impreguable. ; While there we met two Goshen bovs, ■4 9 IiAlford Toms and Ilarvey Wilson.— jrimy were it ft in the hospital sick, but Ithey ate now well and doing picket du jty. We were in hopes we should ie- 1main there, but the LileS were against |us cga.n- Wo spent one night thereon the ground near the depot. The2d Lk«ii., complained the next morningof the :ats phi\iug “puss wants a cor-!ic-r'7 on his face. We are now iu mid-! die Tennessee guarding a bridge onei mile a lift a quarter from Wartrace—: Bedford Co., fifty six tuiies from Nash1 J! viilfj twenty-three miles horn Mufrees-: boro, and ninety-five miles from Ohat-i tanooga on the Nashville and Chatta-I nooga Rail Road. Wartrace is a small | and dilapidated. The country around j; is very hilly, and some of the farms !k • | f Wtr?e very valuable before the war.— iwhen Wheeler made his raid through ( hc'e last fall, a great deal of property; was dcV-royuvi, and td a me Rumor ; says another one will be made thisI Uii.• vjni company is divided into two di-j visions, one squad of about thirty menii under Lieut. Best guard a bridge North ; ! of the town, and the rest under Lieut, j i Tates al a bndge South of the town.— !^ Ij *ri. Ha ivks is on dutv at Mufreesboro.jJ A v ji ne iUijoinmg cuuulies ;;re lull of •; i guerrillas as ihe cavalry scouring the \ cuuuirv ail ot the lime kill about thirtv iI . * •: evert week. Tkiny-nme were killedj within fiitceu miies «^f here about twoiWv-eks ago. borne think they make ji I: then appearance close here occasionally, j j as it may be seen by toe following in- { ; cidents. John White, Thomas John-:jf * - : son. Thomas Morse and Fred Yeoman j.: were wandering into (he country a ! | short uisi.uioe from camp for the pur ; I pose of gu.urvmg their appetite for the! uber. Ih-V'pie in this neighborhood do j; not compl o.n ol their cows giving tooI O Z31 II much n»ilk. Cuming to a (arm house, !i . *| tbev were told that ‘•lebs1’ were in tliejf vicinity, and would attack us the next : | morning. They concluded it would be ! to I heir advantage to return to camp.| They had only proceeded a short distance before they discovered erx horse- ,men coming toward them. Being un-., * ■ •armed, instinct told, them “to take to | their heels,” which they did io lt;guod S stvle. Morse and 'Yeoman were (efti! iu the rear to prevent a flank movement.■| while White and Johnson conductedij the advance safely into camp. A i squad of the 71st Ohio, guarding in Wartrace went out on a scout. That' night we were all ordered -ipto the Block-house expecting to b^rfttacke^-No attack was made on ua. ;rA few?shots were fired into LiSfiiP BbstVucom—mand and returned. burhS 6^ Was
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Goshen Times
Goshen, Indiana, US
Thu, Jul 14, 1864
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