Quiner Scrapbooks: Correspondence of the Wisconsin Volunteers, 1861-1865, Volume 5

              lion uuist W crushed, .- nd willi eaj/t^r -oulf"   i^j.^^ j^om his'person.
we intend   lo go on,   dlthough   it spreads desolation J»M' vhlljte'dtoi' tbe land.
Wm. Wiutb.
liCtter trom L.t. Col. Ilancock ot tbe 14tb Ketfiment, Relative to tbe Discovery of tbe KeraalUB of Cov. Harvey.
Tbe following letter, written by Lieut. Col. John Uanoock, of tho 14ih regi¬ meut, to Mre. Harvey, Hwill be read wilh interest, as it gives a particular a'^counl of the recovery of the remains of tho late Governor :
UCADQCAHTXRS Um IlKQ. \VI8. VOL., t
Fiiui OP Shiloh, Tbmn., May 3d, 1803. ) Mra. L. P. Harcey,—Madam :
Knowing tbat everything connected , with your dear husband's untimely death I will be of great Interest   to you, I   cheer
Yours vory truly,       J. IIanoook,
Lt. Ool. Utii Reg. W,Jif
Vroin tikr Foiirtenilh Rr((lm»nt. ^
CorrotponiK-ncj of tli.; Tiim-!*.
I'lTTSBVim  [.ANDINO, TkNNKS.-«KK,)
Siiiunliy, May ;<(!, 136-i.    \
Mr. Km Ton : —I aro aware tbat it is a
l.te hour tj scud you my first letter from
' the Pittsburg battle-field, but it has been
impossible for mo to shorten tbe period of
delay.     For  tbe first three or   four days
ading up tho river, and we straigfitway began to discuss tbe probabilities of our being called to share in tbo dangers and honors of a bard battle. Tbe day passed along, and troops wore hurrying by us on all sides, and Htill wo were allowed to re¬ main in inglorious repose. \ short time before sundown the long-roll was beaten, aud wo hastened into line. Ou? ('olonel had volunteered to go. We were quickly aboard the boat and on our way. Wo reached  Pittsburg   Landing in  tbo nigbt.
1 after tbo battlo, paper   could not bo ob- and struggled   up    through    tbe tangled ,
j tallied, and   wo bud to iwait tbo arrival brush to tbe top of tbe steep river bank,
J of our knap.sacks before oven so much as where, drawn in lino, we spent tbe nigbt j
.. penning a  few lines to the anxious hearts in a pitiless storm.     At daylight we were
fully'send °y Jii' what" info'rtnation   [Ta'v'o " ''^ ''"""'•     '^''"' c^P^'^rcs. privations and sent forward.     This routo to tho bcoiie of
gathered In relation lo tbo same, or rather " f'»»'g"C9 «f  the week succeeding tho bat- in relation to thu recovery of the body. tie brought many of our boys down,  and Last night word reacbed our camp that    among tbo number of  those who fell vic- the body had   been recovered, and was at , tims to sickness, was your correspondent, the Landing on tbe steamboat Zarfy PiA-e,    wbo   was finally oblif'ed to submit   to a This morning I got an order for tbe deliv¬ ery of the body—took poBseesion  of the., same, and also  what effects were  gotten .. possession   of—set our men at  work pre-. paring It to be sent North, and now (4 P. - ii.) it is ready, and will soon   be on its ¦ way.    We  have dono the  best we conld •• under the circumstances, aud get it to you - in as good shape as possible.                          * I learned tbe  following  oircnmstances - from Oapt. Walker, of tbe Lady,Pike, wbo delivered th© remains to us.    The  body
was found by some children.    Atterwards . a negro rifled it of its valuables.    Some ot
tbe citizens learned trom tbe cover of one of bis memorandums who be was, and had |
the body taken out and buried.   The Cap- [
tain says he landed two miles above where i
be was buried, and tbere learned the tore- |
going facte.    He went back to tbe place—
bis boat  hands  disinterred tbe   remains,
made a box, placed tbem in it, and brought
thetn to this   placo.    The   citizens   took
pains   and bad the valuables laken by the
ufgro gathered in, and 1  have sent tbem
to JttS. 11. Howe, All'y Gen., uol knowing
your address.    Tbe   Oapiain   seemed very
strife opened strange   scenes to our eyes, for our   path lay over   a   portion of tbo ground so hotly contested tbe day before. Wc pa.ssed   by   and over tbo dead   and wounded of v-^unday — poor, ghastly, man- course of remedial sprouts iu tbe hospital,   gled forms of friend and   foe, with tboir Coming ou'. of said iiiHiitution considcra-   pale faces turned   to view—poor follows bly   in advance  of the proper   time,  he   with tbeir beads shot off, tbeir vitals torn sulTured a relapse, and is at present only   out,  tbeir   limbs  lost  or   mutilated,  and sufficiently  recovered   to manage a pen,   some still writhing   in   feeble and speeeb- and tbis unpretending letter—so long un-   less agony, who bad lain through tbe long avoidably delayed—is among thc first ef-   and stormy watches of that fearful night, forts of returning strength.     During those  wiib no one to caro for or belp tbem      It hours   of  physical disability,   oven   that  was a fearful, sicketiin^j; sight,  and many- portion of my oorrespondoooo  issuing to  a strong,  brave   man    turned   bis   head my  parents   bad   to bo limited to a few, aside.    Would to God tbat tbo necessity linos   written   for    mo   by   an   obliging' for our   over   again   looking   upon   such friend. j scenes of human misery might never come
Sinco leaving St Louis, it has been, Ob, tbe blood, and agony of tbat bitter my good fortune to receive two issues of day of strifo will ever romoiii impressed your paper.     It would bo bard for me to upon our memories.
tell bow welcome they were, not alone to|       \Vo passed   along  into   position,  and
myself, bat   to a largo circle of Green- wero held in   readiness for action.    In a
bush boys.     But to tbe main subject. short time a lively ,battery began to play
To thoso more   liberally endowed with upon us, and, as wo could do nothing at
descriptive  talent, I leave those compro- thc moment, wo were ordered to sit or lie
j bensive and  graphic   delineations of tbo down      I know not what the  feelings of
! scene of  strife and   carnage   which find others were, but  I  confess to a peculiar
1 their way inlo almost every paper.     And fooling ae tbo grape and canister wont fly-
tbe more   willingly do I adopt tbis dccis
trembled a little in ppite of me, though not from fear, and tbe idea of flinching never entered my mind. Others, wbo..- fougbt wilh splendid bravery on tbat da^ bave confessed to tbo samo indescribable emotions, and tbe same strange tremor, at tbc first.
Soon tbo rebels began to advance,   and we were ordered to "up an' at 'em,'' and
gentlemanly   and wouid take   nothing i
remuneration tor bis trouble.    All be ask-    ion when I remember that   tho incident! shot screamed in close proximity.     I own ed was credit for what he bail done iii the    ^f greater magnitude bavo already becomt up, too. that, at tbo fir.it crash, my  band matter.    Tbe body was lound some sixty-    patent to all;  tbat tbo grand  panoramt five miles below Suvannab. "has been pictured, and all tbat remains ti
Thus, my dear madam, v.e send  you ab -- ^^^ ^„„,. -,g   ^^ ij^jng t,, light iiioidonts o that remains ot our late beloved Governor,    ^^^^^ interest, and portray scenes of com
and it is a relict  for us  to kuow that ho •    _ •     „ .,„„„
„,,....      -paratively minor importance, goes to his Slate tor  nnul dn»posilion, in-     r -'
stead of lying in the Teuuessee waters. A •¦ May 10th,—I regret to say tbat indif salute was tired tbis morniug from tbe position has caused roe to lay aside tbi gunboat by order ot Gen. Halleck to his . letter until tbe present time. I bopo t liunor. be able to finish it at tbis sitting.
1 send you a list of the artio«', money, q^ Sunday morning, the Gth, our idea we rose and poured a murderous fire into
&o., debvered to me as being all tbat were j  ^^^^ aroused by  hearing   heavy cannori tbe ranks of rebellion.     Ah, what a roar
ing over our beads,  and   shell burst,  and