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The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Kentucky. (search)
61, and was on the march for one whole month lacking but two days, passing over the most mountainous country in the world, crossing at short intervals the many water courses that flow down and drain this whole country. The march of this regiment has been one of the severest and most arduous of the entire service. We have had to wade creeks, branches and rivers; camping upon the snow-clad ground, and often in the mud. We bridged the Sandy river in two places. Our orders are to report at Prestonsburg, and we will leave here on tomorrow for that place. Two of our men died en route for this place, but, as yet, the regiment is in good health. Before starting from Christiansburg the officers of the regiment held a meeting and sent Capt. James C. Taylor to Richmond, to ask of Gen. Cooper a suspension of marching orders, until the men were or could be supplied with overcoats; but the General refused to suspend the order and directed Capt. McLellend to send on five hundred overcoats.