NEWS: The Alleghanian; 17 Nov 1864; Ebensburg, Cambria Cnty., PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/ _________________________________________ The Alleghanian Ebensburg, Pa. Thursday, 17 Nov 1864 Volume 6, Number 8 Etchings The vote of the 54th regiment P. V., in which are several Cambria county companies for President was: For Lincoln, 218; for M'Clellan, 73; Union majority, 144. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company are building a new station house at Gallitzin, this county. Co. F, Capt. Jones, 194th P. V., a hundred days' company from Johnstown has been mustered out of service by reason of expiration of term of enlistment. From Our Soldiers Letter from Co. C, 209th P. V. Bermuda Hundred, Nov. 8, '64 The day is about to close and that, too, upon a great contest. The struggle commenced soon after the sun had risen above the eastern hills, has lasted through the entire day and will close only with the setting in of night. But this contest is not one of blood, or bullets, but of reason of ballots. Yesterday the heavy constant rumble of artillery to our left told us too well that amid slaughter of men the great Republic was contending with the cohorts of treason. Today the men who struggled in the face of death yesterday turning aside from their fallen comrades, do battle in the same good cause, by voting for Abraham Lincoln, not because he is a better, purer or more comprehensive statesman than any other but because he is the flag-bearer of those principles and those men that look to the preservation of the nation's integrity by the crashing out of treason. And as for that little band of men that left their native or adopted hills some two months ago and in whose minds there nightly arise visions of their quiet homes in the mountains of Cambria – as for them you need have no fear. They are doing a good day's work. On Friday of last week the company were glad to greet the man whom but a short time before they had helped to place in a Congressional seat. But he came not alone, for with him was Squire Miller of Wilmore, commissioner, to receive soldiers' votes. Accompanying the former were packages of almost every description and for almost every body. Tobacco in plugs, tobacco cut and dried; tobacco in the shape of cigars, abounded in such profusion that certain lines might be rendered: "Let those now chew that never chewed before, And those that always chewed now chew the more." And all owing to the goodness of our worthy friend whom the Copperheads were certain they would defeat for Congress. While it is not my wish to boast, yet I will say that Co. C so far does honor to herself and the people she represents. She has but two sick men in hospital and four in quarters, all doing well, while other companies in the regiment have sick in hospital and quarters as high as from twenty to thirty. Our quarters, too, in neatness and comfort are not excelled and perhaps not equaled by any other in the 209th. Perhaps it is because of this that we have had no cases of chills and fever, while in other company organizations cases of this kind are found in large numbers. What we may prove in time of battle yet remains to be seen. The election resulted as follows: Union electors -- 55 Democratic electors -- 00 Union Majority -- 55 Truly, [Signed] Gamma New Book "The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States; with a full history of his Life, his Career, as a Lawyer and Politician, his services in Congress, with his Speeches, Proclamations, Acts, and Services as President of the United States and Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy of the United States up to the present time." Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Bros., 206 Chestnut St. Price, 50 cents. A very readable biography of the man who, for four years, has piloted successfully the good old Ship of State through the turgid waters of treason and disunion and who has just been requested by the People, in the most pointed manner, to retain his onerous position for another four years to come. No American citizen should be without it.