History of the Fifty-eighth regiment of Indiana volunteer infantry : its organization, campaigns and battles from 1861 to 1865 . ar that between the freshet and the cutting of dykes,by the rebels, the central column, composed of the 20th andhalf of the 15th Corps, is being compelled to return toSavannah. Some wagons are being washed away andmules drowned. I fear this will thwart our Generals plansfor some days. We received some letters this morning—the first in answerto letters sent North from Savannah. In one letter, received by me, came the informa-tion that a young relativeof mine, who was
History of the Fifty-eighth regiment of Indiana volunteer infantry : its organization, campaigns and battles from 1861 to 1865 . ar that between the freshet and the cutting of dykes,by the rebels, the central column, composed of the 20th andhalf of the 15th Corps, is being compelled to return toSavannah. Some wagons are being washed away andmules drowned. I fear this will thwart our Generals plansfor some days. We received some letters this morning—the first in answerto letters sent North from Savannah. In one letter, received by me, came the informa-tion that a young relativeof mine, who was cap-tured in the McCookraid, has joined the rebelarnvy. His motive wasto escape the rigor ofimprisonment. If he succeeds in escaping fromthe rebels to our lines,there may be the end ofthe matter. But if he iscaptured he may be experiment is dan-gerous, and sinful —almost beyond die and rot, as many noble men have done, than swearallegiance to the sinking cause of the enemies of the the day before yesterday we heard of the capture ofFort Fisher, the kev to Wilmington. Ben Butler said it. E. HOLTZMAX. * Dr. Holtzman was commissioned as Additional Assistant Surgeon ofthe Regiment by Governor Morton, in 1S62, and joined the Regiment afterthe battle of Shiloh. He was promoted to Assistant Surgeon, and servedsome time on detached service. March 26, 1S64, he was made Surgeon, andserved with the Regiment until its muster out. After the war, he returnedto his old home at Bloomington, and resumed the practice of medicine. Heafterward removed to Pontiac, Illinois, where he established himself in apractice, and where he still lives. good FIFTY-EIGHTH INDIANA REGIMENT. 463 could not be taken. I am no General, but I knew it could,and so expressed myself in my letters. Now it has fallen,but no lower than Mr. Ben Butler. I wish he were here, torule Savannah, as he is a splendid Provost Marshal, thougha poor General. Tuesday, January 24.—I spent all day r
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