Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-10-04

)etter than when we began the WORK.
rhere are afew guns, tcmporarily y mounted,
out it will take two weeks to finish the
work. There will be heavy lbarricade
around the outside. Tt will be made by
piling trees with butts toward the fort,
sharpened and sticking odta 50
as to repel charge Of cavalry. Inside
of this and at'the BOTTOM Of the slope is
a mote 10 feet deep and IA feet wide, the |
parapet is l0'feet wideHontop. The gen.
eral shape oftthe fort is an equilateral
trianglo,swith Varietsaof juttings points
toplant guns upon imposition to sweep
the mote and barricade on either side.
'fhuslyou will see that force sufficiently
large to work the guns could repel almost
an,endless number Of invaders, especially
when the chief fighting element of the
invaders is to get behind ees1'and fire.
If they fire atus now they must leave the
cover of the woods or their minnie balls
will fall short of us, asthe willing arms
Of our axe-men have laid the woods low
for at least a mile about, and in some pla-
eesi will be cut down toItwice that dis
tance. 81 fF 40 iaiIr5.1 jaom .I 4. sd
aid ,E,gowr ;N, e. Eggqg ..f}tt.I 90 r3,
24th.-I bad to stop writing to 60 and
help build a bridge; and this forenoon we
shifted our quarters, We have moved to
the right Of the brigade and then. Y. SD
took our place at the fort. Some of the
boys thought we ought to have been left
in the fort as we did large part of the
digging and chopping. We hold the post
of honor, and if engaged will be first in
the fight, unless we should take it into
our heads to run away. We have built a
fine road, parallel with the Potomac, con
Meeting all our forces between Chain
Bridge and Alexandra, and | reckon that
our engineers have set a pattern on road
making for .Virginians to follow. We
can now collect large force at any point
on our lines at very short notice, as the
new road will save the necessity of cross
ing the river twice. We have had the
usual amount of alarms lately, some, not
making much, stir. Last Saturday we
worked all day on the new road and at
midnight we were drummed up, and four
companies on the right marched out un-
der command of Lieut.. Col, Stapnard.
One of the N. Y. Regiments was on pick
ct and the outer line was driven in, Stan
nard took small escort and went out tc
econnoitre; and he came to the conclus.
ion that the pickets were more scared thar
hurt, r. He then took them and ou'
to their posts and we waited till six ir
the morning and as everything was quiet
| u. q
we returned, and a gapnter set you dom
often see. Our Regiment has been compile
mented for their coolness and good beha
vior on picket. One night there was ;
very extensive alarm and nearly every
Regiment ran in that was on picked bu
the Vt. I'd. Our Colonel was very raucl
delighted and congratulated us on our be
hiavior. Yet I think there are other Reg
| iments} about i,s made from as good mate
rial as the I'd Vt; ;abat they. have not hat
the experience, as you are probably awar
that we have always been in the advance
| The rebels burned fine house close b.
our lines last night p but they did no
scare us much! and it only Showed thei
vandalism and weakness. ''' - 'i0o' .
i .d9iaw--atu9mdog5ttn9 isd91 5dtlo noiss5
| IS o'clock, I. M,-77We have been quit
busy in cleaning up our, camp7gropnd, q
we take the ground that was occupied b,
the MY. 33d, and it. wasfa a rather, hary'
looking place ;s,but we have mad made grea
improvements, and,w are nov close 70 th
River and short distance farther UP thai
when we were on the opposite side, bn
visited the 9dIRegipento Sunday. ! say
| Wm, ,Crowell and Hiram Earle, yWillian
was rather unveils he was suffering g from
q headache and was, feyerilsh. ~ nYapnnlnes
Lilley apdz Carolusr Reed were opt, pick
et.> They we're both we'll. have no
seen Carolus since L left Camp Lyon, bu
as il am now eloseotoo him,vl hePc lTshal
see bhR often.i4siC Colonel and 4 MaiouHyd'
are wellusand told me to pgiye'.their bes
wishes toyOuoiiWe hadratime,of rejoice
\ ing gin.camp lastunight causedb thehb