The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-06-03
Che Daily freeman.
MONTPELIER, VT,
MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1861.
From The Wheeling Intelligencer, May 20.
Advance OF the Federal Troops into Weste m
Virginia.

Advance OF the Federal Troops into Weste m
Virginia
The passage of the troops who left the depot
on Monday morniLg has been one contin ued
ovation, as far as they have gone. We went
down on the train carrying the troops from
Camp Carlisle, the Ohio Regiment coming soon
after. Those who witnessed the parting scenes
at the depot will not soon forget them. Some
OF them were very touching. At Benwood,
one mother who had come out to exchange the
porting word with her son, said, with tears
standing in her eyes, as the train rolled away
. Go you leave behind you sore hearts. but
all will be well when you return" And
gray haired sire, at the same place, hobb!ing on
a cane shou ted after the train as it moved away
' have three sons with you now, and wish
| could 90 myself Such was the spirit man.
ltested everywhere, and corresponding feeling
pervaded the hearts Of the men.
AL the way out through Marshall the utmost
enthusiasm WIS awakened by the appearance of
the soldiers. They had not known them to be
coming, but they OWNED at once their mission,
and the most joyful excitement was everywhere
exhibited. Owing to the alarming reports of
the night before, rumors that Southern troops
were approaching, We found crowds at every
stopping place, who cheered the trains as they
passed, with wild vehemence. At Glen Easton
/ VIC AOuuu q SOl Va e"CutJ i've OF LulTtV
eight rihemen, and further on passed another
company Of them numbering perhaps forty, all
marching towards Cameron. which they heard
was to be attacked and burnt by State troops.
At Cameron We found crowd assembled of
some three hundred, perhaps, who insisted in
standing out IN peltlng rain and cheering the
soldiers nearly all the time they We're there.
The report of the advance OF Southern troops
had been received the night before, and hun.
dred rihemen had been unuer arms. guarding
the town all that night and at this time men
with rifles on their shou ders We're coming in
from all deections, word having been sent out
the night before. i really looks Just like what
We read of as having taken place in the days Of
'68, when men left the plow standing in the
furrow, dropped the upifted hammer, and
rlsbnd to the defence Of their country At
every station and every house people greeted the
soldiers with cheering and the waving of hats
and handkerchIefs, and the women and girls.
when they had no handker,hiels, waved their
bonnets daprons. Themen returned all the SAL
utations, and enjoyed the demonstration i'm
mensely.
At one house by the roadside an old lady,
who seemed excited to the highest pitch, waved
her hand till the trains were past, and then gave
vent to her overweight feelings by yielding to
a food Of tears. Sach the exuberant Joy
with which the people, alarmed but the hour be-
fore by undefDed apprehension, welcomed the
appearance of their defenders.
Our trains reached Warrington little after
noon, and the appearance Of the troops there,
as everywhere el5e took the people completely
by surprise They had heard, however, that
train was coming from the West, and, as this
was unusual since the burning Of the bridges,
a considerable crowd was at the depot waiting.
As the trains rolled in, they displayed the
American flag, and with that and the gleam-
Ing OF thousand bayonets, the people almost
went wild with enthusiasm. In very few
minutes the whole town was there, and the
gladdest set Of people man ever laid eyes on.
Their Joy scarcely knew bounds. Hardly had
the soldiers been there five minutes, till they
had arrested and under guard as many Seces-
ionists.
The train soon after moved on down to the
first burned bridge, where the men disembarked
and paraded in a meadow. Col Kelley thea
detailed six companies and started for Farming
ton a notorious secession nest, some three miles
below, from which it was said the men who
burnt the bridges had come, and where it was
stated some fifty armed secession troops were
stationed. Meanwhile, the remainder of the
troops stacked arms, after throwing out pickets
and scouts on the neig ghboring hills, with orders
TO DTlnS III any p1ISoHs tuty lniSut unu III
less than len minutes after their arrival, they
brought in six, some of whom it was positively
asserted by some Union men from the country
around were accessory to the destruction of the
bridges. Squads of men continued to go out in
different directions, and to bring in pris-
oners, until they must have had at least
dozen under guard at once. Several of them
were released after an examination by the off
GERS, but at least six or eight were retained un-
til the return Of Col. Kelley. 1t was rather
exciting TO scouts, or @ Snake Hunters, as
they style themselves, on trall. As certainly
as they would spy man anywhere in sight,
SQUAD OF them would seize guns, and start after
him on run, and before very long, would bring
him in for they were sure OF their game if
they got eyes on it. The prisoners were all
reated with the utmost courtesy, but nevcrthe-
ess some OF them looked terribly frightened
In the evening the companies returned from
Pennington, bringing with them several prison
RS, and reporting that their scouts had killed
me Secessionist and wounded another.
Finding the town deserted Col. Kelley order
d his men to scour the woods surrounding it,
md it was not long till they had unearthed sew
ral Of the fugitives, most of whom they cap
ured The men who were shot were running
rom their pursuers, who called out to them to