The Constitutional. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1860-1861, 1861-06-01
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ON. Army C.a'rc-pondc"cc'
RICHMOND, ID May goth, 1851.

to yo7thc facts connected
with our trip, which | will now attempt
Our trip down to NcsS Orleans wac pleas
an. and agreeable tsEall parties consider
ing the crowd that a.Fs on the boat when
we marched aboard Much is due to Capt. |
Smoker and the cle.k of the Is. L. Hodge.
They lett nothing uudomr to add to our
comfort, which hope viii be lohs remem-
bered by the good people OF Rapides' We
left the good old boat and took up our
quarters at the Ses,ncn's Home very
l,rre house, where tn two or three days
we lived ike fighting cocks" and ] as
sure vou We were very 10Th TO leave 1t tor
Camp Walker but 5nr life as soldiers had
to commence, and on the third day we re-
cciyed orders TO shoulder our muskets and
march to that unarranged and the most an-
suitable camp ground that thick heads
ever picked spon for human beings to
" roost" on. 1t is Impossible to describe
the Inconvenience of that place No wa
ter, low, damp ground, and thousands and
millions of mosquitosiof the shanghai or
der-they would bite you through three
blankets. Water was brought to us in
open barrels, which when IT reached us
was somcw hat removed from the tempera-
ture Of ice water. Old Tracy's idea is to
mike n man a soldier Mt first words, and
brings him by quick process down to
the line of routine lie is perfect cold
cuss."
We left New Orleaps on Friday even
in- and arrived here on the following Tn
day. The road on starting Vas crowded
with Ladies' and gentlemen, who met II
with shouts of JOY and showers at boquet
The ladies are all right-God bless then
With the exception of Chattanooga an
Knoxville, the ovation would have bee
flied out. knoxville, the homie Of ol
Brownlow is getting all right. She n
Guircs time. Brownlow has taken dow
his flag and says that he is undct"r'nlnc
whether to 60 to III or join the SoutI
" ern Confederacy. His political iren
Mr.. Douglas, (of Knoxvillc,) was shot
dav or so before we arrived, by Il
:! Colonel of the Knoxville Regiment, N
Morgan. Andy Johnson was ont makIr
Union speech, but 1 think he IS near
:" played ont" The people sa! that 1t
" or Brownow ever attempt to raise t
Union flag in Tennessee, they VIII ma
Il" them as high as IImnan. tennessee
DC thoroughly aroused. About this there
u be no mistake. From every mound z
'u' almost every los the Confederate flag <
v" proudly waving. do not believe Il
rI' there is enough of Union men from \
ay Orleans to Richmond to form two dec
'"' regiments. Troops are concentrating
'y Horpor's Ferry, Norfolk, Richmond e
ne from ill quarters. Maryland has two r
'Sh imen,s in this State, and they are com
m in every day. 1t is rgported here t
mn Hicks has called for four regiments
VIII assist Lincoln. The Federal troops ii
Yer possession of Baltimoro-city. How i
ed' they will hold it is yet to be seen.
the city is very much excited. All bneir
we is stopped. Women are i'suitcd II
Su- the streets, and booty and beauty seen
by be their motto. They have had scv
ing street fights with its citizens. If this
rom insult, hcaped upon injury, will not arc
10 them, then "lct EN- rip" we want
'uih ally who has not courage enough TO def
cot their most sacred rights. Maryland
the be represented, but would rather see
by citizens remain upon her own soil to +
wen the indigui,ics offered her people by
,nti- the Northern hordes. She would the
'lyct heard and answered by every Sout
Ria State. Poor Maryland | foeti dccpi1
ling you. How long YOU viii remain so t
'u''- mclcd' God oEiy knows; but their
o"' point Etyond which patience and tori
--s'ii::'e ance cease to be virtue That poin
into been reached and past, and still she
'P"r- lent 1t may be the calm before the s.
that President Davis and Cabinet viii
ound Richmond in less than six or eight
oipod The seat of government will be N
One here for time. There is about from
aid to twenty thousand troops here and al
sgard Richmond, at Harper's Ferry eight
to be eand, at Norfolk, ard over sixty tho'
'iican in the State.
The remainder of our regiment Al
this morning. All well and in fine :
} Rec We will start for IIarper's Ferry on !
rs the day next, where we expect to have
y run sharp fighting. We viii try and