Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-10-10
LETTERS FROM THE SEAT OF WAR.

ihO ioiio"ihS 10 iiVlh JUG WIN Will pS
recognized as one of the volunteers from
johnson. Though rather lengthy we have
no doubt it will be read with interest.
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH Reg. VT. V. NJ, !
Camp Advance, Va, Co. D., Oct. 3, '6l. (
write you at my earliest possible con-
venience from the sacred soil' of "The
Old Dominion" now pretty thoroughly
occupied by Federal troops, to the exclu-
sion of nearly everything else.
We left st. Adams on Monday, the
23d ult., at 10 o'clock, and at daylight
the next morning found ourselves in che
"City of Elms." The city at once of busy,
bustling trade. and quiet retreat, of noisy
streets and pleasant residences. of vocifer-
Gus hackmen and gentlemanly officials.
Such is New Haven, in specializing Con-
necticut. During our passage through our
own Green Mountain State, white hands
and 'kerchiefs waved us on" and the pleas
ant smiles of fair faces, and the hearty
"God bless YOU of the hardy yeomanry
with their honest hearts, went far to cheer
our spirits as we left our pleasant homes
for the hustle and din of the theater of
war. Our hearts were not altogether sad,
followed as we were by the fearful bene-
dictions of our lov'd ones at home, and the
fervent CALCULATIONS of loyal patriotism
Such things have their effect, unimportant
as they may seem, and who SO sets them
as of little or no value is despising the
day of small things which have sometimes
ian ending like the great matter the little
fire kndleth."
Massachusetts,, though we passed the en-
tire length of her line in the night, was
we'll alive at every principal station, with
honest men and fair women, all wishing
us God speed in righteous warfare, and a
safe return We embarked on board the
splendid steamer Elm City, about sunrise
on the morning Of the 9th, and passed
down Long Island Sound, arriving at Jer-
sey City about o'clock, P NJ. We took
cars Immediately for Philadelphia, arriv-
ing at Camden at 10 o'clock the same eve
ming, and at Philadelphia at II. where we
found shot coffee flee for volunteers. -
Bread, meat, of various kinds, &C., &c,
IRE provided in abundance, from fund
contributed, | understand by the ladies of
Philadelphia. God bless the ladies of the
city of "Brotherly Love" for their un-
bounded generosity, and grant them final
ly an abundant entrance into the heavenly
kingdom. After partaking of their hos
pitality we again entered the cars, and at
abont 10 o'clock, A. NJ. found ourselves
in Baltimore. "The Monumental City,"
Who ;ells of her beauty? Monuments
and filth, pride and nastiness, most unar-
tistically combined. An intolerable stencil
of bitumen, cutters, and bad rum, with
decided smell of disloyalty, are pre-emi-
nently its most distinctive features.
looked in vain during stay of two or
three hours for good looking woman"
according to the N. E. pattern. They
seem to be partakers of the smoky atmos-
phere of their rocking city.
Leaving Baltimore at about | o'clock,
we were detained sc, eral hours on the way,
waiting for one train after another, and
only arrived in Washington at nine o'clock
in the evening, and were quartered in the
SOLDIERS Rest" large building fitted
up for the accommodation of soldiers ar
irving in Washington. Boiled pork and
bread constituted our rations, washed down
with "camp coffee" which of all sober
drinks is most intolerable. At noon the
next day we were ordered to Meridian Hill.
some two miles from the Capitol, near
which we were then quartered and were
on the move as soon as convenient. Pass
ing through Pennsylvania Avenue, we saw
some splendid buildings but large pro-
portion of them are, even in this so-called
splendid thoroughfare, much inferior to
the better portions of our N. E. cities.
The Patent Office shows good front.
and is being enlarged the present season,
Judging from appearance of workmen and
material in close contiguity to it. A lit
tie farther on is the "Wnite House which