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Major A. S. Hall.—We learn by the Portage Democrat, that the report of the terrible nature of Major Hall’s wounds is a mistake. In the battle of Pittsburg Landing he was wounded by a shot on the head, with a ball nearly spent, from which he was insensible for several hours. He has however [...] Army Correspondence. Through the favor of Arron E. Austin, Esq., we have the following letter received from his son, of the 14th Ohio Battery, written on the Hospital Boat coming down the Tennessee. We have met the enemy, and have whipped them, but we have suffered fearfully. The [...] Naval School Appointment.—The examination of candidates for the appointment of a pupil to the Naval School at Newport, R. I., which was held in Warren on the 8th resulted in the appointment of George Brown Jr., son of George Brown, merchant of Ashtabula. __________ Maj. A. S. Hall, of the [...] The Fourteenth Battery.—This was the only company from this county that took part in the battle of Pittsburg Landing. This battery was in the thickest of the fight, and of course could not escape without great loss. We have been favored with a letter, for publication, from one who was in the action, to [...] Surgeon Fifield—In the Summit Beacon we find a letter from Capt. M. T. Wright of Company D, 29th, written to his father, giving an account of his own wound and the death of Lieut Williamson, in which he alludes to the Surgeon of the 29th, in a manner that will inspire confidence in those [...] From The Twenty-third. We had the pleasure last week of meeting with Sergeant Covell of Company B. 23d regiment. He reports the boys all well and in good sprites, waiting for the word “forward.” He sends us the following note. Rock Creek, April, 12th, 1862. To [...] The Fourteenth Battery.—We here so little of the late battle, that we cannot tell what departments of the army have suffered most. From the report in the Cincinnati Times. we learn that the 14th Battery, to which many of our citizens belong, took a prominent part in the action. The account says: A desperate [...] Camp Kimball, Strausburg, March 30, 1862. To The Editor Of The Sentinel. In my last I wrote you of the expedition to this place, which returned the next day, after pursuing the rebels three or four miles beyond Strausburg, yet without any fighting. if we expect the throwing [...] |
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