Quiner Scrapbooks: Correspondence of the Wisconsin Volunteers, 1861-1865, Volume 3

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The JDcatli of Jo«hua 8. Siultli.
j inieiit nas too tlag.
The most of our company hnd bc.n up
... , .       Joshua S. bmith, a corporal of company
three n.ghts in .succes.sion, and  wero con»-     " '^ I        ,.   ,   .       ,
pletely exhausted.    I   f 11  asloep upon theG, Gth regiment W IS   Vol, died   m   thc field of battle once, while the artillery were Hospital nt Washington, on the 2Gth ult. blazing nt each other. '• .''"•''        Thc evening beforo his doalh Capt. IJugh
My visit to Fort .Magruder wJisoHe o'fvisifod him and foutftt him, as he suppos- intore.st.    The  enemy   have  been driveiigj^ very much  improved,  bo    much    bo, from one of their strongest position.s. ^j^^j j,^ expected to bo able   to  join   hi.s
Jasper  IJi'owi.  was won..ded and  taken . . ^ ., , ,,',
'     . .....      ...        ,   company in two or threo days,     ibo next
pri.soner, but L'ft m thc hospital when  the .   V,^        ,.     ,   , -.       ,.
enemy retreated. morning Oapt. ]}ugh Jeamed  to his great
I   have  visiicd   AVilliamsburg. nnd n-.dBur^^iee that ho was dead.      Capt   IJugh satisfied wc have done  nobly, and thnt wrthad tho body embalmed   nnd   expressed can well sing as we go nlong, John Hrowi.': home.    The embalming process  is a   dis- soul is marching on. Glory, Ilallehijah !     co very of Dr.  Holmes,   of Washington, To«r..,«ver.      PEi.KU.   and was patented Dco   luth. 18G1, ''NiOGKRONTnEBRAiN."-Qaarterma8.     We are indebted  to   a   private    letter ter Clabk  reports  that   whatever  otliei r ^    r-    *  t>    i r    .1 •      11''"
disease, the  Army  ot tbe Potomac raav ^'¦°'" ^"P*" ^^"^^^ ^'''^''°'""""'''"'''""\ doomed to f«ll hy the   slmfis   of  dis,.. be afflicted with, it is entirely free of the *^° embalming is donp. l,ef.,r„   witnessing tho fir.st   b.ittle.     li.
above mentioned complaint.    He says that       "'^'^ ^°^y   "^^^   rendered   nude   and I loaves Uirce brothor.s still in the lan'us u\ nothing would cause such a general sbouf Placed in a horizontal position   on a   plat-' the Federal army.    His   ooiupany   have .... , » Bcii^i»i luuu  I 1 r -leteimiied   to havo  enibalnied   and  sent
of   rejoiclug-exoept   au    overwbelmlniiform.    A very Rinall incisron   was   then ^j^,^,^^^ ^,j „,^^^, ^,f „,^i^ „^„„,,„, ^.1,^ ,„„,, victory—as   to   have   a   lot   of   negroe.! mado m tho left arm, to get   nt a vein; Nljo during thc war, whenever   it is poss-
a tube was then inserted in the vein, andi'<bic. attached to a pump ;  tho  pump  was  Bet ^dPcalli of lion. Burton MlHara,
mon wa- delivered by the Rev. C C. Symos, fioin R.'vclations 7th chap. 0, 10 and llth   verses,    when the    procession
[ formed nnd marched to the cemetery. Thc procession extended a dislanee cf movo than a half milo. Tho nuinber of teams must huve exceeded Bcventy Cve, and hundred.'? folbwcd on fjot. Afti.r reaching the grave a volley was lired, and the remains of do^hua S Smith were buried out f f sif^ht Thc deooascd was a young man about 2G yoar.s of age, a duti¬ ful son, a trustworthy friend, and a model soldier His rolalivca carmot feci his loss more keenly than his brother soldiers lie wcidd   probably    ha e . pr«;ferrcd to
l| hove d ed on the battio   field, but ho was
of negroe.' brought t) their assistance in diggioj Srenches, driving team.s, cooking, polieinj
theeatnpsanda hundred other things b,I j^ ^ ^^,^^,  co'ntaiiiin. abnut t;p,  ..,1J..J,.    Thi.   community,   on   Saturday  last, which the   strength  of men who enlisted ot a prepared liuia,  tnU thc-i   Hua  thud 1^
»»i..v;.. tuo   Btreugui  ot men woo enlisted ot ft prepared liuia,   ana inc.i   ima   uu.u : .nmirnintr  bv a letter
U.«ght i..,.,I,  »a,te...   Thepr„te.Uio„,,:'„iI,di.,t„,h„  blood vessel,.    Ti^-^^"^?::''T:'7T'yj^H
trabunds snd employing -tlom hi "various seconds after tho commonccment of thc ways about tbo camps, with the promise embalming proces.s, tha blood vcs.scl.! be- of freedom for their service?, Mr. O. says gan to enlarge, tbo (aco became full, niul the strength of the'ar^ny eould be increased ti,o whole body assumed a Kfc-liko honUhy almost iudttiiiutely. .FttlL.20 per cent, of j^.,,j^aranco "
the troop^asidfe from extra labor in en- ' .^-i,, ,,,av a.rivod'.^oro on AYcdncday trenohiDg-)are employed in labor that thQ       aitoji.v ,, .,,,.,•
blacks »d do better. "  evening lust.     It waa tali on   to the resi
Prejudices on the part of those in the tlcncc of his father, in tho town of Seneca, »rmy who set out with the idea that this whero the cofan was opened and viewed was a " white man's war''havo been thor-I by his friend.--. On Saturday it uns oughiy conquered by the force of olrcum- j i^roufrlit to this city, and was spcn to tho Btanees and   tbey   *re   anxious  that   all | ._^J^^.^^^^ ^^ ^,j ^^^.^^^ ^j^^ ^^^^
availab e means should be employed to | } ^„^^„t,„,„eo looked quite natural, crush the rebellion. ' '¦
Mr. O1.ARR thinks that If he could take ioto the ranks a few of the men at home who have manifested such a holy horroi* of the darkey, and regarded the peculiar) Institution us too sacred to be disturbed, he could convince them with from one to two days' fatigue duty, nnder a burning Southern sun, that it was far better that the slaves of rebels shoold work thus than
they.   If not convinced  they  would be
sure «oon to be buried.
The policy of MoOlbllan's  army  has
been to receive aud employ, either In pub- lie  or   private  service,   the blaoks  who
sought    to    oome    within   tbeir     lines,
but uot to hold out any inducements   to
them to run   away, or   to interfere  with
those at work tor rebels un iheir march or
tritbin their linos.  g^-^
v.-caring much the appearance of oilier corprics, cscopl perhaps a darker appear¬ ance It was expected that a thorough examination would bo mado by our pliy sicians, and fur some reason the cxainina- lion was not permitted
Tho funeral was attended nt the M. 11 Church at 1 o'clock P. M, Sunday, nnd Wtt3 by fur tho largest   ever witnessed   in
lie fell whii'o' at his post on picket duty by rebel ruffians, without a chance to sell his life for a recompense. Had ho received death's messenger in the|. heat of battle, it would have mitigatcilj the sorrows of his family and friends ; hut to bc crept up to and   assassinated while
)On duty as a guard, like a  savage,  add?
Ijten fold to«the   affliction   caused by bis;
untimely death. j
From thc two letters already receivedi
'wo are unable to gather thc particular3 of!
''his tragic end.  It sccraa that it was time
'for the relief, who were then crawling to, their post, and Mr. Millard wascon-| versing with an ofiBcer formerly froni| llockford, Illinois. As the oflicer turncJ' to leave he heard two caps snap, and thc next instant, a ball struck Jlr. Mii,l.up iu the Itjfi breast near thc shoulder sever-[ ing an artery. Ho was taken to tb^! hospital and lived five hours. ;
As a man   Mr. Millaiid  had a h^p\
this   eity.     Tho   German   Battery   now ,   r-     1       -.ino
recruited   circle of warm   hearted   friends,   a-al no man in   this  community   held   a   more
here, the Ueilin Cadets,   those by Lieut. Aycrs,   for  the   5lh  regiment and  a full martial band   headed   the pro- cession.    The church was fnr too fiinall to
respectable     position     than     he. his   firm   adherence   to   right  and
By; fear-;
hold tho assembled pooplo, hundreds   bc-  ^'^"^ exposition of error,   he   comniandcH ¦uv^ unablo even to find standing room.-   *^« ^""'^ ^^ ^ ''''^ "^ ^''^'''^'   ''^"^  "'*''
An appn.priate and clorjuont  funeral 6cr-
Bpect of all.    He   was  among  the firs' \ Bottlers of this  county—servad one term