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LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
Military Movements in the City and County.
Scott Infantry- Editors of the Eeening [[Evening]] Express:
Having on several occasions received complimentary notices in your paper of the "Scott Infantry Company," that I had the honor of enrolling, and, in yesterday's issue one which your reporter stated that I had offered the services of the company to Gen. Sickles, for his Brigade, permit me to make a plain statement concerning the matter as far as I have been connected with it. When I first entered upon the military stage of action, I was seriously impressed with the belief that war would be an inevitable concomitant to the settling of our internecine trouble. That the South, or the North, must prove itself the stronger power before we should have a restoration of order, and the happy pursuits of Peaceful Arts. I believe the North must subjugate the South before order and peace can be restored. And I believe that our Government must raise its army to double the number of men it now has in the field, before the South can be made to succumb. Under this impression I rallied the men who constitute the Scott Infantry, and under this impression I would desire them to continue their exercises in the acquirement of soldier's descipline [[discipline]], believing that they will yet be wanted for active service.
While their zeal and ardor for the fray has been dampened by the non acceptance of their serviees into Camp thus far, they must not forget that many companies were registered before ours, which have nevertheless been equally disappointed. Yesterday one of these, from the Bradford county, were sent back home from Harrisburg with tears in their eyes, over the unexpected countermarch.
When I learned on Friday last that Gen. Sickles was authorized by the Secretary of War to raise a Legion of ten thousand men in sixteen days, I took immediate advantage of the report and addressed a note to him, offering the services of my Company, with the assurance that we would be ready at a moment's warning to march according to his orders. Yesterday I received the following answer:
HEAD QUARTERS, Excelsior Brig.,
May 21, 1861.
JOHN WISE, Esq - Dear Sir: Gen. Sickles desires me to acknowledge the reception of yours of the 18th inst., and to inform you that the Brigade has its full compliment of officers and men; also, that he regrets having to decline your offer.
Very Respectfully,
THEO LAURIER,
Military Sec'y.
I must confess that the receipt of this was somewhat of a damper on my expectations. Ten thousand men in less than a week! If New York can supply her regiments at this rate it may take some time before we shall be called on. Nevertheless I deem it a duty to keep up the disciplinarian exercises, and would recommend to the squads belonging to my company outside of the city, to keep up their weekly drills, because we cannot tell what a day or week may bring forth in these troublous times.
JOHN WISE.
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CAPT. WISE'S CAVALRY COMPANY- Editors Express: Allow me the generosity of your columns to say to the friends and relations of the members of my company, that is now comfortably quartered in Camp Cameron, where I shall join them in a few days, about two miles east of Harrisburg, and that as soon as it shall have been fully mustered into the United States army, which will be in the course of the present week, the roll will be published in your "Daily Evening Express." I want but ten more men to complete the maximum number of 95, which I expect to recruit during the next few days.
In conclusion, permit me to say, that my First Lieut., Dr. Henry Reemsnyder, is a good practical physician, a gentleman and a soldier, So that we shall be doubly provided in the medical and moral comforts of the soldier.
Respectfully yours,
LANCASTER, Oct 14, 1861. JOHN WISE.
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LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
WISE'S CALVARY already numbers in its ranks the following officers and men:
JOHN WISE, Captain.
HENRY REEMSNYDER, 1st Lieutenant.
BENJAMIN G. HIESTAND, 2nd Lieutenant.
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|Samuel W. Schauers|Oscar M Johnston|
|Samp P Gable|Henry Brighton|
|O B McKnight|John N Rudy|
|W A Laird|Jacob G. Drorbough|
|J M Arment|Edward Enk|
|Elias Brua|Henry Klaus|
|Robert R Evans|C R G Pinkerton|
|Henry Cooper|Wm B Ault|
|Christian C Carpenter|Henry George|
|Washington Winters|Simon Goss|
|Henry Diffenderfer|Ernest Brown|
|Samuel Worrill|John Hoover|
|Leonard Spang|Adam F Herr|
|Hugh Macormick|Peter Derolf|
|Peter Magennes|Daniel Walton|
|George Leonard|John S Keplinger|
|Martin Miller|Charles Hackman|
|Hiram Dommy|Peter Kile|
|Frank Cetti|Wm Sharp|
|Henry Kelp|Charles P Dorn|
|Daniel Cooper|J A Cross|
|Henry Markle|Martin Denton|
|Patrick Leary|Amos Diveler|
|Daniel Hildebrant|John H Foulk|
|C W Fetter|John Sailor|
|John Lipp|D. W. May|
|Christian Traub|Henry Stricker|
|John Sandoe|John R Evans|
|Issac Heiny|Jacob Niess|
|J B Workman|George Uncle|
|E C Royer|Issac Evans|
|A S Wingert|Samuel Swenk|
|Elam Bushong|Wm Uhrich|
|Frederick Evans|Eli Heiny|
|Horace Cochran|Franklin Reese|
|Wm Wilson|Erwin Weitzel|
|Charles Grow|Henry M Fillies|
|John Zimmerman|Jacob Crossley|
|John Peart|Daniel W Metzler|
|Charles M Johnston|E W Falcone|
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Every one of these men is from Lancaster county. Not a single breach of decorum has occurred in the Company since they are in Camp-now over two weeks. They are said to be better and more comfortably clothed than any Company that has left Lancaster county, and they have good and abundant rations.
When the Company is filled to its maximum number and all the non-commissioned officers appointed, a corrected list will be published in the Express.
The horses, equipments and arms, have partly arrived for the regiment, and Col. Williams has an order that, when he leaves Harrisburg, whether for the west or south, it is to be by regular line of march instead of by rail. This will at once accustom the men to field duty and camping out. There is not a man on the sick list, though fever and diarrhea prevail somewhat in the hospital.
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"THE SWORD of 1812:" Among the many swords presented to officers going to the field from this county, there is none more appropriate nor so full of significance, as that presented by Dr. Charles Herbst, of this city, to Capt. John Wise, of the "Lochiel Cavalry," as will be apparent from the subjoined correspondence:
Lancaster, Nov. 8, 1861.
CAPT JOHN WISE - Sir: I take pleasure in presenting you this sword. It is a relic of, and has done service in, the war of 1812. You have with it my sincere wishes for your welfare, and a conscious faith that you will carry it through the campaign with honor and bravery. CHAS HERBST.
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DOCTOR CHAS. HERBST - ESTEEMED FRIEND AND FELLOW CITIZEN: I receive the sword with a soldier's gratitude for its time honored service and glorious memories. It shall ever be my pride to emulate the valor of the heroic men of the war of 1812, whose service it represents. I perceive that 50 years of peace has caused it to grow somewhat rusty. The exigency is at hand to rub it off. Should it be my destiny -my fortune- to meet the rebels face to face, it is my aim, as it is my duty, to use it faithfully in the cause of the Union, my Country, and my God.
JOHN WISE.
Captain of Company F, Lochiel Calvary
LANCASTER, Nov 8, 1861.
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DEPARTURE OF COL. WILLIAMS' REGIMENT:
A little before noon on Monday the Lochiel Cavalry arrived in Harrisburg from Camp Cameron, armed and equipped, with knapsack and blanket, and each man with three day's rations in his haversack. They marched to the residence of the Governor, where their flag was presented to them by the Executive.
The regiment as it marched through the city, twelve hundred strong, presented a beautiful and warlike appearance. The regulation hat, the heavy sabres clanging and rattling, and the gaudy marker carried by each company, gave the regiment a striking and novel look, unlike anything we have yet seen in our streets. Captain Wise's company is in this regiment, and of course is now on the march to the field. It is supposed the regiment is destined for service in Kentucky; if this be so they will soon be in active service, in a most gallant army. The Lochiels will not be the least among their associates.
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THE LOCHIEL CAVALRY: We have a private letter from Capt. Wise's Company (F) of the Ninth Regiment of Pennsylvania Mounted Volunteers, stating that they arrived at Louisville on the evening of the 30th, when the regiment was ordered into camp on the Indiana side of the river, where they are to drill their horses for three weeks, preparatory to taking the field as a part of the central division of the army in Kentucky. There are about 10,000 troops at that point and large additions constantly arriving from the North and West. The Lochiel Calvary was carried down the Ohio is seven steamers, and reached their destination without accident, with the exception of a member of Captain Savage's company being kicked overboard by a horse and drowned.
Capt. Wise's company is the largest in the regiment, numbering one over the maximum, and is considered the best in the regiment. The Captain is well like and he has already instituted a rigid discipline in his company.
The Louisville Military Subsistence Committee insisted upon feeding the regiment the day of their arrival, but they were at once ordered over the river to Jefferson, Indiana, to go into camp. The address of the company is therefore, "Company F, 9th Regiment, P. M. V., Jefferson, Indiana."
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"THE OLD GUARD CAVALRY'
FROM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT.
CAMP ANDY JOHNSON, Jefferson, Ind., Dec. 22, 1861.
The bugle sound of war seems to be modulating its tone into the gentler cadences of peace; at all events into a mood of garrison inactivity hereabouts. The force ready for the field in the Central Army, and the army and navy of the Mississippi, cannot fail to crush the Confederate forces in the southwest should they attempt a determined resistance. Our strength, in numbers of infantry, calvary and artillery is immense. I am not allow to particularize, but suffice it to say that the rebels cannot resist it with the least shadow of success.
Our Regiment, the Ninth P. M. V.. Lochiel Calvary, is still in this Garrison, going through the routine of daily drill. Company F, Capt. John Wise, as you are aware, is purely a Lancaster County Company, and, in its extra-official name, is dubbed "The Old Guard Cavalry."
You would be surprised, if not pleased, to see the proficiency of drill of this company has acquired. There is not a movement in the Platoon drill but what they can execute with precision at the walk and the trot, and many of the evolutions at a gallop. They are complete in the sabres exercise on foot or on horse. At jumping the bar or leaping the ditch they can go it in files, two's or four's, without a balk to tumble, though some few acquired that proficiency at the expense of ground-tumbling. This, in many of the companies, is yet of daily occurrence.
We still carry the palm of excellence in the drill, and almost daily get the compliments of Lieutenant-Colonel James, our instructor. He is accomplished in the calvary tactics and drill and besides that, he is a complete soldier and gentleman. Our is the Sorrel Company, and since our horses are well groomed and fed, and are beginning to feel their oats, they do credit to the color.
They are all dare-devils at jumping and leaping, and between them and their rider this kind of exercise seems to be a mutual enjoyment. It seems to me that a company of
