Daily Ohio Statesman

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Letter from the State Agent in Washington — Returning Ohio Regiments — Our Troops at the White House.

The following interesting items are furnished in a letter from Mr. J. C. Wetmore, the Ohio Military Agent at Washington, under date of June 4th, and addressed to the Governor of the State:

One of our volunteer nurses, Mr. Clements, returned yesterday from the "White House," who reports all our stores safely there, and the two corps of nurses ready for the great battle then impending.

He says that on their reporting to Surgeon Dalton, the Medical Director there, he (Surg. D.) says, "Are your tents pitched?" They replied, No, not yet. "Well," he said, I want you and the German Relief Association to pitch your tents alongside of mine, for I want you near me."

Surgeon D. was the Medical Director at Fredericksburg, and had witnessed their efficiency there. Our party of course were much pleased with this evidence of the Medical Director's confidence in them.

Many of our first three years men's time has expired, as you are aware, and are now returning home from the front. On the backs of their final discharges may be seen recorded the various battles in which they have been engaged. I took the trouble to copy one, that I might send you. It was that of Daniel Jacks, of Cincinnati, belonging to Co. E, 2d U. S. Cavalry. It was as follows:

Siege of Yorktown, Va., April 19 to May 4, 1862.
Battle of Golding's Farm, Va., June 27, 1862.
Turkey Bend, Va., June 30, 1862.
Malvern Hill, Va., July 1, 1862.
Bull Run, Va., Aug. 22, 30.
Chantilly, Va., Sept. 1, 1862.
South Mountain, Md., Sept. 13 and 14, 1862.
Antietam, Md., Sept. 16 and 17, 1862.
Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 11 and 13, 1862.
Vicksburg, Miss., June 20 to July 4, 1863.
Jackson, Miss., July 13 to July 19, 1863.
Campbell Station, Tenn., Nov. 16, 1863.
Fort Sanders, Tenn., Nov. 29, 1863.

Though this is a pretty good string, I believe some of the men have been in even more battles. He escaped being hit, except a slight scratch on one of his legs, the shot passing, killing his horse under him.

I asked him if he was going into the service again, he said he thought not; he believed he was pretty well satisfied to return to the employ of Judge Gholson at Cincinnati.

I asked him if he did not value that discharge paper, endorsed as it was, very highly. He replied, he didn't know that he did overmuch. He seemed to think he had merely done his duty. I could but covet the parchment, and feel a high degree of respect for its possessor.