The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-05
70, correspondence of the Free man.
90, %, tbe Sd Vermont Regiment.
NrnLll NV AIr--l l..
c,vp LYON, near washington (

''VD CAMP LYON, near Mas"'hg'on'
'N July %, 1861 !
we were ordered to re-
e EDll0 ron Gen. Dix at Baltimore, but
spls'I,S ,.. " came, and as consequence We
M orders ,3r o'n post of the Fe leral Army,
e the aIv Maine Regiment, and IA detach-
The sN' p. .r army, guarding the Chain
l& to' n .Ie potomac. five miles above the
h across ,T WV nnnnreciate the honor conferred
.Y WELT s1 who are in authority, and
fsN '' "Oi.naced. Our march was one
loO' 4 ,ion, thousands of people thronGed
.D@ o'11'T ,he road through Vermont, Mass
ar'os', on ,s New Jersey, Pennsyl-
sS' ( ,yan in Delaware and seeded Mary
aoa Vt Fillmore. cheer on cheer arose, as
id Il, p Third swe pit through on the Cars, or
tGnoi0' I their streets. There seemed an
4 3lv'5 Of enthusiasm on the road, and
2DS a', m, vt looking old lady, in the ex-
Pnatriotisn, shouted words OF en-
s@c i F at every shout bounding a loot IN
a.sa," and the last glimpse we had, passing
a''. . In road, was the intermittent appear
1'ii ID ' nYck bonnet bobbing iarewells to
sd v nr stations along the road not only
A ,.n;n,"'sscheered, but old rusty cannons that
'1 ,'''n :, have spoken for many a long day,
s'i No W rnsty muzzles mingllng welcomes
I'd no 'ns ~ Arrived at Washington we re
' s@'m four o clock a. NJ. until twelve
~ I, VIZ took up our line of march Tor our
'a' 1," wv where we arrived late on Sat
al ; 5I"' hardly in time to pitch all our
n n5t the boys took kindly to their blankets
'''l W., "s air, after their wearying journey
-p'R' a RIy,er. said we were the ad-
p VI~ ara-wo hold the post of honor, the en-
A. .,n n,' about six miles from us, as report
@fI" 's twelve, wei thousand strong, their pickets
y WV ',r;os themselves across the muddy wa
"a ~I I"+ws4n us and Dixie, and almost hour
. ~. a. are exchanged between our outpost'
. .@s& ~ The day we arrived, two hundred
1~vurg occupied corn, field on the hi
~. t but on dropping a few shots among
u. they commenced a race Their BACKS 10
J',nj Camp, commendable as tar as spee(
', ,srnsJ, but hardly creditable to their sol
.l;,'' About a hundred of our boys took
. ..,I,o Virginia, some three or four mites
.. , by about twenty U. S. cavalry
~ d,ra,took some one hundred of the sesesl
y; cantured couple Of prisoners, dirty
' I'm, tellows, and had the pleasure OF ex
.', ,.o seams in the backs Of the coats 0
' ,,% ad;uc swiftly in the distance.
raIgper part of my letter was somewba
by an order from our Colont
"~.nl;rc YOUR humble correspondent to dt
~, brndied men for a ramble across til
=. ,;tse and over the sacred soil of Virginia
J. he way, quite remarkable tor Its m1
diloheuess, as our gray trousers and nlcel
rgI jrosans 50 plainly show this morning
or.jt Of the dying artillery, Infantry, an
5r Of the c. S. A. You may question tn
,~t,iveness of the adjective, but recent ac'
..ars are the circumstances that alter case
had before this been repeatedly challenge
nne As far into secessiondom as Langley
a, three and one halt miles hence, but foun
o,r arrival there, that some two hundred an
71v i've cavalry and one hundred iootme
Ne. the command of Beauregard in persc
n only thirty minutes in advance. On v
atat double quick and quick time as the nj nj
au the ground would admit, some four mil
:har into the interior, to a place c'lled Lev
Vile only two miles from Vienna, where +
asays are posted twelve or fifteen thousa'
ups After planting the Stars and Stripes
alding, giving three cheers. taking one pr
~, recovering two U. S. horses and live tn
npo U s., we returned through drenchl1
gn to camp. And this was my first appef
lie, ina tclligeycnt attitude, within the boun
The Old dominion,
Tie chain bridge is one of the most importa
&soa the Po,oma3 and is defended at one c
battery OF three slxty-eight FOUNDERS, hla
II boxing fellows, sighted and looking d
he toward the land o! rebels. In addition
long brass twelve Founders in earth Wo'
laleve! with the flooring of the bridge Hal
by two hoaltz.rS sufficient to hold it asal
thousand men, be they what they may. I
ter Alonzo G, Bradish is from your place,
is much satisfaction, especially as we III
ID some trouble with suffers before. MY I
Ter must necessarily be short, but " hen
4e some active service aud something to WI
4lt, will drop you line. II. OF ~