Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1861-05-03

The Boston At'ae qad Bee publishes the
following letter from one of the Massachusetts,
Sixth, who WAS 4 compositor IN the Office Of
that paper, and left at an hours notice,
with bis regiment ijr Washington
Washington Saturday noon.
D,r UH~;
We arrived in Washington last isht.
aud are l9rtered in the Capitol, the room next
to the Senate Chamber and l am now at the desk
of the renowned Senator Douglas, writing TO YOU.
We have the use OF the desks o. the Senators for
writing purposes. I am WELL but shall feel a ljtt,
better when ! get something 70 eat ! have only
had one piece Of pie to eat since Friday night. But
shall have things fixed so a- 90 have them reg
ular before long.
You viii have read in the papers, before ycu
receive this, about our first fight IN Baltimore.
We had pretty rough time Of 1t while it lasted,
but we whipped them. As soon Is VIC arrived Ia
Baltimore the mob commenced on US, calling US
ali the names they could lay their tongues TO, aui
then came perfect shower Of brickbats stoues,
and balls from revoivers, which were fred az US.
The order was that we should not return tHe die,
but the BOYS stood 1t as long as they could, ard
then opened At them from 'hc windows Of tie
carl We killed Z Of them, and they of our
regiment, and there is one Of cur boys who will
pr baby not recover, as he was shot very badly.
But we had made up eur minds to go through Bal
"
and 90 We did For ) miles after we got out Of
the city we had cur guns pointed from the Windows,
70 Kill those who were tearing Up tEetrack, which
they did all along just before We got into tae
city they tried to car # the track iutc the
water. but they stopped that suddenly when one
Of their men fell into the water, with ball thro
his head.
They bad sent word to Us from Phiadelphi4
that we could not pass through that city, bat the
Colonel made up his mind that he could, and 60
we did. We had the car that We IN stove
all to pieces, by brickblts and pistol shots, but
they got enough of it before they got through.
When we heard that we would have warm recep-
tion, every one eager to get ther and take it,
and show those plug ugly" secessionists that
when the Massachusetts, boys were ordered TO do
a thing, they were going to do it. They had all
the advantage in the world. We cramped
up in a car, two on a seat, and had no room to get
about. If the Colonel would have let two or three
companies out, there would have been good many
moro among the missing. There were
a good many Of our boys that wero hurt
with stones thrown at them. | had a pistol
fired through the window near where | was, and
saw the man who fired it, and shot him so dead
that he did not breathe after he was struck. They
said the hall went through his head. I will give
you two or three instances Of how they acted. We
had to bange cars at Baltimore, and had TO
march some way to get on the other cars. They
must have had some arrangement with the
S0nlStS-tle Preslueut ul tHe rOad-and VIC were
all separated the regiment not together, only de-
tached companies and had to march up, and
that gave them good chance at US. The company
that hud the eolors had the worst time of it, as
they were bound to seize the Massachusetts flag,
and then they would have something to show and
boast of. But they did not get it, although of
the men on each side of it two were shot through
| the legs, aud good many of them were hurt with
stones. Another company was marching up, when
one of the " plug uglies' stepped up and blew
one Of the mems brains out. The man next
to him turned round and shot the man tbrol gh
the head who had killed his co1nrade. A whole
company fired one man, who had been very
prominent in throwing stones, and they riddled
him all to pieces. A lieutenant Of another CON-
| pany was ht By stone and hurt pretty badly,
when one of his men marked the man that done it,
and just as he was entering the door of e store
| shot him, and the Same ball killed another man.
The Mayor Of Baltimore, while they were throw
| ing brickbats, borrowed musket from Of our
men, and shot one Of the "plug uglies' dead.
| We licked them good, which is not an easy thing
| for Baltimore mob, but vere sorry that any OF
| our boys were killed. You can depend npon 1t,
| that wherever we are ordered shall do our
| duty, and not make blot upon the RECORDS Oh
Massachusetts. CHARLES