Quiner Scrapbooks: Correspondence of the Wisconsin Volunteers, 1861-1865, Volume 1

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cannon, lovely flowers, nnd still more lovely! fatiguing, standing there with our knapsacks aneels had vheomA n<.n„ „„.»,..,. .k-..-«- --•• ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^„  ^^^^^^ ^f ammunition   in
our cartridge boxes, cap box, bayonet scab¬ bard, two day's rations iu our haversacks besides  knife, fork,   spoon and  plate.    But
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angels had cheered us on our way ; though all these wore excelled by that night's jonrDey. Our train was two hours behind lime aii through Ohio, and yot they waited for us at
Letters from the Second Itrginient.
WAflllNGTON, JlNK27lh,   UOl.
Mr. Ebituu:
thartheirbearisworotrueihVfla.; ^""",    These rascals would cheer Jeff. Da-"^;"'"r -'-J    «" "- --eo to    re..
Tt mattered not wh,u the hour of tV    I ;:! ""' n? IT '" ''' '""°"^'" ^"'""- "      ""'" ^"T^        "'^     '1 ''"'^"''''"
morning, theywero there to shak^lutnds with Krl"'""^ ''"''"' '''""8'''^'*^"^                the occnslu.ml   shout   of   ihe
us and invoke the protection of hfteen  for ""''                 have a fight, but they dared .unaril for a Cori-orai, aiid the   quick, lu.r-
us when we should  meet the rebels c= the "."!,!?,"««?" "'k 'u''"''"-   '^^' ''°^' "'""'' ' '«'^ 'r*^'»'-I ^i'   ^'o, as   ttT the place of ninrm
field of battle.   I never saw more flow... In '.t and llvl   I        ""'"'' "" "" ""^ -"' '"^ «'«   ^'^ ""•". -'-^ Perhaps,    the,
all my life than were bestowed uobn •» thro'       7     ^, "^'""i^'^' "^ ""Pport or carry arm.,.   ..„ ,„., ,  ,'.,., ,..   '. _. _»'._.. J,
all my life than were bestowc'd udod us thro'        . ''*^" "' * ""PP"""' °^ ^""^ """-.l     ii i    i i •      .^ i    .i
that journry. '¦ ''"'^^ ""'^ '"'^" '"«'• ^''^ ^^ord.    It wa. evi!,' *^*" ''""^ ^"•'" occasioned by the appenrnneet
V Wc reached  Pittsburgh at SJ o'clock ftt-' '^T ''""'• '"""^ ""'"'''"^ '''''' '"'PP^"^*^ '^ f'e ' "^' « ''^'g "«• '^^  **''"   "^-"^ "'»•"">? '"¦"•*'^'""
¦*>Jurdaymorning, .-ind started n-aiii at 10ffbr'°aJT''*^''"*^°^*^''""°'^''''"''''^ and not,   of   course, liavinjr   the
Harrisburgh,  by thc  Pennsylvania Ctntral^iiand JerJ ^"^ "^''""^ '''' should have to | countersign, Mr. 6oniInol, upon chaleiiging
R. It.    I shall not attempt a deEcription  of'    iietwo^rn «n,i io   - i   i   , 1^"'^ ^^^''"° ^^ •'"•' ""'^ "Ot- «blo to  discern
.1,. .c,„», i„ „,».„ .he ,„o„„..„, b«|j::rL'ii';„: t: ¦;: ra':;:,: "•¦«""'''«-»¦- - "•« •¦-i- p™-*
our Captain and  Lieutenant doubtless will,»   ,-    .  n ,  r,   ,  . ^ "'from   n.An r,-   ; .„..    .i     p i     r .i
when thcy return lo Racine, give vou a vivldP  ^'^ ' '^°'- '^'•^'' '"¦°'''' "« '"'« sections, , f^""\ .""^" «^   "'"^^    ^l'« P'>^P«^«1  <'f ^''^ sketch of it nil as seen from the bead  li-dits*'*^? T ^^ '''''""'' ""<^ ^''"« wc ' g"«^<^'^ called, and the mailer investigated.
I*      of a locomotive. "       "J'^'^'^''""-""gl' «ahin>orc at midnight.    We   When it   proves to   be   a slracgler   from
-,       We reached Harrisburgh at .10 P.M.    Our ttouTu.eUTad ^c^^'r'"^^^^^ 'f"'""P'    "'^'^ «'"H 'lown
camping ground had been selected for us b;! passing through the street in w-hfcirUirnh I'°''" "" ''"^ ''^ ^"^ '^"^' ""^ ''** ''''^ ^''' Lieut. IlAiCH, ofthe LaCrosse Light Gnard», Mass. Regiment was fired into some six weeks 1 '"''''^'- ^^"" '« '""^^^''^^J to the guard who went on ahead for that purpo.so, and thel ago, a hilge ruffian stepped out on the riel.t ^'^^^'^ ^^ "^^¦«'' '¦"'"' «"^ '^ ^'° '""o' Pf'>ved tram ran d.rec.iy ,o tbe spot.    Wo  „1. took fl„nk of our company, with a revolver in his   ^O be a secession spy or one of tho seces.sion
upby2oVlocl. The  hoys were tired at, :r::w^rr:S,;^^: -^on in llio   samo   wa,,    when a
and slept soundly until  10 o'clock Sunday ed hi., pistol and  Uicd  one  barrel'.    Capl   '°"'' '"'"""' '' '"""^  """^   ''?>''    '^ '"''""<*
i "Tk "*!' n , n .[Strong was carrying his revolver ready cock^ '^"''^^' '* '^^^"^^ "P'    ^"'' '"s^- "'g^'^ wns nn
Nj frol thi^ Trlt ^;';"/^"''^7''.''.''''««'"'(?''ed ^nd watching the fellow's motions very   """''">!)• quiet   night until the loud renoit
^ri:':!n::r:::;:.!!!;r^S5?--':  -.^^ --^ ^'« ^-^ ^'.^  .be^iof .musketry m a neighboring ca.p:(wl.icb
der on the Harrisburgh .\r,enal for our^tt^ prairie chickens wero to bo found in rhctfieai kets and 40 rounds of ball and buclt;ipt stubble; and there is no reason to doubt that cartridges, and, directing the Regimes^) he would have reached the scamp's heart proceed to W ashington imnied.atcly. h%as .Uh a blue pill had any injury been done, as a busy time for us the balance -f the-d.y„it was the ball rolled between two of our and m act ncarlvnH nigl.l; it is not a small platoons, and instantly brought every musket
oh to distnliiiti-.inns   nf<f>niilrnnii.iira nn<l am'•. ... .      .       .. ° / ^uuoubv
job to distribute .nrms, accoutrements and am": ^ a foil •ook. th. elick, elick. going down the I munition to 1.000, and we did not leaye'for' i.    , ,.:  .    ^''..'^''"W <^9«^.n.t;}9.|
was the N. Y. 31st.) .•\wnkoned us from! our sleep and at the same moment a cry j of ninrm was heard when our drums iiu¬ mediately sounded to arms. The ninrm wns followeJ by others, niul tlio noise and bustle I hereby occasioned will bo long re¬ nd il.i ins; mvay in the di.stame. membered. In just eight minutes Irom BaUlmoretill  1  o'clock.   ,We had nothing           „,,„,. or tlie sticcts we wero receivid the   call   "to arms!"    Co. A   wns on tie
''"T''''7:':f'Zr!^"r'^1^r'rT:T''''"'' "^ '''^ ^""^^ "¦^'" g'0»..d foUoKeJ by an the o.l.er companies poorly ventilated.    The road  is operated at   lined und the houBclops covered with people. ,    ,.        ,,,.., i   •    •    !
the present time by the U. S. GovemiDent,   Bi^ueU wore showered upon us bv the ladios, T.""" being formed m just
and is thc one, as you will remember, which   aiifl'the stars a:id strijies weriMvaved over us. ^^'g''^ minulos, when    wo wi^re commniided had 30 much trouble with  the rebelfc. After , 1j, ofi,er streets we wore hissed and insulted, ito It'ad, which wns executed in good order,
and quick time. .Soon a scouting party was sent out to rcconoitre; tlioy roiurned in nbout twenty uiiutiles, bringing iho news that n sece^ion .spy liud boon shot nnd was then under guard nt  iho camp of
we crossed the line and pa.ssed IntQiferyland , it was -4 miles from one depot to the oilier' almost every brklge was a tempo»1lr> slruc- ,,nt we finally got seated in tbe cars readJ lure, the onginal ones having been burned : for onr jomney to Washington, which place by the secessionists. ¦,- ¦ , ^., ^..^^ed this morning at .5 o'clock.
We anticipated trouble-in.&Uimore, as I    Our Regiment went into encampment this
'wephould be oblit'cd to Jiass through   that   nfternoon, on "Capitol Hill," one mile oul. 	
¦ eit, in the night, endJ^«. boys were accord- ' Tho grounds are l,and.«ome and convenient^ jibe N. Y. 3lsl.      Aflcr whic.'l   the  order ingly ordered lo load aid cap their mu.skets 1 and our boys will no. discredit tlmplace.- iwns given lo .elurn lo camp. ^ before starting,    W e loft Harrisburgh in four c We expect lo be on the " sacred s# of Vir- ! trains, at intervals of half an hour.    Compa- . ginia before many suns have risen over our ' "'"'"'-*    ^"^   ""    '""^'^' " welcome
nies A., D. and F. (our boys) were in the first   heads. guest   to the boys  of   iho   2d llrfgiincnt,
, train and reached Baltimore just at twilight * Capt. Strong has been slightly indisposed, t''0"g'' ordered to return fo camp, it wos —got out of tho cars and formed in line, to> owing to over ex.nion on the journey and l»"' •« ''« <''»"'" "'"^ conjecluio as lo the wait for the other 7 compani9a lo come np ;., „aut of sleep, but he is all right again.' probability of a figlit, for which we nr 1 al'
and there   we  had  to  wait .till   nearly   12 Yours as ever «r- . ,       . 7 •      ,    , 1
o'clock, owing to some slight accident to the '' *^ '  ^^^'^^'^'«?--' | anxious, and waiting patiently for a chauce
engine of the train nexl behind us.    It wns ^
rather exciting I can assure you, as well as ^^'Sy^*
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lo   cope   witli those   who have boon   tho means of calling us into the field, .inl irny
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