The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1861-08-06
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ygm ble ha night veb he greatest
pleasure ltb tbe ar.t word ! have herd
fom aoy e my oll friends SINGS have
been heu any tb'ae that csmes from
Vermont eamc. worth more Is me ,han
ihc whole southern States Patrick, yoa
asked me i Was in tlai 6ehL Oh, ycs
indeed, / gus was. and God onl,y
knows what i iiehl vc had Is L was one
81 The hardest battle. ever fought Can
ever iorectthai sunday No. ne ue,cr'
Il makes e tear stand IA my eye and my
SKIM creep, IL look back on tic bloody
Geld 81 battle, and scc the dead and diving,
aud the pleading wound. Of those poor tel
lows that were shot in the defence q our
countory ul The GLORIOUS stars aud
stripes, aud as our friends fell thick aud
fast around us and 20 think how some
poor fellows flat wa. wounded would cry
ou, tor drink Il waiter aud some void
turn there oys towards heaven and pray
Hmt God would reliyc thercpams by deaths
pa,ll oad icey hand % pass o,r, an,o
brow aod relieve there soul lrem thcrc
mansled boldly | never cN pected 70
leave the battle field The grippe aud can.
ester shot went around iae like hail Il
WAS a perfect shower Of shot But God
SPARED my life few dais longer. We
len our camp ground At o'clock Sunday
. morning and marched lhrueh the wood+
z about 10 miles, aud we come 10 large
plain, which we had 20 take double quick
time miles, wich very soon brought Us
10 the mouth Of the rebel roaring cannon.
/ II was q very bot day, and We we're very
much furuiged on 50 long march, but
we fought very brave, but al in ,ain.--
There was only 2000a Of our mon, and
they bad about 10000, and wa. fresh aud
Z hid in thc woods, and had forty -ciqht riicl
e cannon behind an heavy breast-work.--
We onlcy had 20 pieces Of cannon, and IN
! an open field, and after we got out d am-
onation we was forsed 10 retpct for our
e lives, and left them il posse-.io ION Of Tie
& q Id, aud rs the did salugrs rallied Oh os
y they run our wounded men through with
g ihier bayoIucs, and burned an Old house
whertLcre was good many Of our wound
I cd carried 70 have there wounds dressed
They tool, all Of the advantage they could.
They raised the STARS aud stripes once,
7 and uc thought that they was going TO
" Give up but, when SIC po' clos. up 70 them
!, drawcd il down and raised there d--n
Z, d--I-l palmetto, then opened upon as
d with a rollcy Of grape which Killed about
a 2oo Of the Michigan First Reg't aud then
I run into the woods. They took every why
!. p whip Us, but we killed more Of there
mcn, yes, times as many. They tried 70
"a surround is, bat did not sucead. They
made an atNct on US as we returned. IN
those long woods they bad 4 company Of
i00 black horses it is called the black
horse cavalry we killed good part Of
/, ham, and the resi- was d--n glad TO re-
. treat aud lcav us. wish you had been
lhelc 70 picked up .ome Of lie swords and
reyolyer aul rilals. picked pas many
y as | could cary, bat we bad 70 cross over
- bridge, and there they had col some can
y non that was worked by the id iufernal
y black Nigar and weakened The bridge
and # broke down with Us and we lost our
TO cannon ia tie trecm, and ] was forsed q
ed drop my loaf Of stuff They Killed about
or 500 men in all. 10 tic bridge we lost on
r tents aud every thing we had onley whai
we had on our backs, We marched all thai
:. night and Tie next day till noon. II com
81 menccd 70 rain the next morning, and w'
no we're as wet as a drouned rat; our fee
les was soled blister and we was so lam'
I. ana lard that could lain down by th'
81 roadside and died with the greatest pleas
~. ure. We all went to Alexandria. w
iuo never got anything 70 eat for iorty-cigll
rk- hours, and that night we laid in the Oh
market on tho damp brick fore, in our we
cloth, and when We got any thing to en-
an SIC had was bread and waiter.
~ The reason why | write on this Is, tha
'7" Il, intended to write Oh il before, but
liel went to the fight; but neglected il, an
On 50 carryed this in my pocket on 70 III
!. field Of battle and brought il Of again, an
IL that Il the reason why ] write on it.
-. went over the Patomack 10 Washington
.Io. and was picked up as soon as ] got the
aid treated very kindly. There was II
nrnn1n.t nxcilnnlcnl ihere that eer ".