Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1861-06-07


I handicraft could be found amupg those
brother Yankees. They were the men tn
make armies o.. They could tailor for
/ themselves, shoe themselves, do their own
b'acksmithing, gunsmithing, ard all other
4 work that calls for sturdy arms and nimhle
| fingers. In fact, ! have such profound con-
| ildence in the universal accomplishment Of
the Massachusetts Eighth that | have no
doubt if the order were. +" Poets 10 the
front T" = Painters present arms " +" Sculp-
tors charge bayonets ! : bakers dozen out
of every company woald respond.
Well. TO 90 o. with their sory,--when
they had taken their prize, they drove her
straight down stream TO Annapolis, tine near
est point TO Washington. There they fou',d
the Naval academSin Danger OF attack,
and Old Notwithstanding us a practice
ship for the future mid ,hipmen--also cx-
posed. The call was now for seam-n to
man the old craft and save her from a
worse enemy than her prototype met in the
Guerrero" Sc men !? OF course They
were Marblebead men, Gloucester men,
Beverly men, seamen all, par rccelence.-
They clapped on the fIisate to aid the
middies, and by-and by started her out In
10 the stream. In doing this their own pi-
lot took the Glance TO run them purposely
on a sloal in the intricate channel. A great
error of judgment on his part as lie per-
ived, when he found himself in irons and
in confinement. 1.-The days of trihing with
traitors are over +" think the Eighth regi-
ment of Massachusetts.
| By-and-by, greatly to the delight Of the
/ impatient Seventh, the Boston was headed
| for shore. Never speak ill OF the beast you
bestrdddle {! Therefore reqtieScat Boston !
may her ribs lie light on the soft sand when
she goes 10 pieces may her engines be cut
/ up into bracelets for the patriotic fair good
bye TO her, dear Oh, close dirty, slow coach !!
SO the Seventh regiment landed and took
Annapolis. We were the first troops ashore.
| The middics of the Naval academy 10
doubt believe that they had their quarters
secure. The Massachusetts boys are salts
fled that they first took the town in charge.
And SO they did. But the Seventh took it
little more. Not of course from lis loyal
men, but for its loyal men,--for loyal Mary
| land and for the Union.
He stayed all the next day at Annapolis.
The Boston brought the Massachusetts
/ Eighth ashore thar night. Poor fellows !
| what figure they cut, when we found them
/ biyouacked on the Academy grounds next
morning 10 begin They had come off
in patriotic haste, haf-unlormed and half
outfitted. Finding that Baltimore had been
taken by its own loafers and traitors, and
that the Chesapeake ferry was impractical
BILE, bad obliged them TO change line OF
march. They were out of grub. They were
parched dry for wa1, of water on the ferry
boat. Nobody could decipher Caucasian,
grimy visages. But, hungry,thirsty, grimy,
these fellows were GRIT. Massachusetts
ought to be proud of such hardy, cheerful,
faithful sons. We Of the Seventh are proud,
for our part, that it was our privilege to
share our rations with them, AMI to begin
a differentiation which grows closer every
day and will be historical
Meantime General Buffers command,
the Massachusetts Eighth, had been busy
| knocking disorder in the head. Presently
after their landing, ard before they were re-
fre>hed, they pushed companies out to oc-
cupy the railroad track beyond the town.
lHeY iOuHu II TORN vi.
+" Wanted, experienced track layers y
was the word along the files. All at once
the line Of the road became densely popu-
lated with experienced track layers, fresh
from Massachusetts. Presto change the
rails were relaid, spiked. and the roadway
levelled and better bsllasted than any road
| ever saw south of Mason and Dixon's
line. We must leave good j)b for these
folks to model ater," say the Massachusetts
Eighth. The railroad company's people
being either frightened or false--in march
es Massachusetts TO the sta'ion. The en-
gine--a frowzy machine at the test-had
been purposey disabled. Here appeared
the deus es mdck-ssd, Charles llomans, Bev-
erley Eight guard, company E. Eighth Mas
sachusetts regiment That is the man, name
aud titles in full, and he deserves well Of
his country. lie took quiet squirt at the
engine-it WAS as helpless as boned tur-
key,-and he found 8 Charles Homans, his
mark" written all over it. The old rattle
trap was an old friend. Charles HomanS
had had share in building it. The ma
chine and the man said, " How d'y' do ? y
at once. lIoma rs called for gang of en-
gine builders. OF course they swarmed
out of the ranks. They passed their hands
over the locomotive a few times, and pres
eutly it was ready to whistle and wheeze
and rumble and gallop, as if no traitor had
ever tried to steal the 90 and music out of it.
IFhile rattle off these trAing details,
let me not fail to call the attention to the
grave service done by our regiment, by lis
arrival at the nick of time, al Annapolis,
No clearer special Providence could have
happened. The country people Of the trai-
tor sort were aroused. Baltimore aud 1t.
mob were but two hours away. The Con
stitution had been hauled out OF reach of .
rush by The Massachusetts men,-iirst or
the ground,-but was half-manhed and moi
fully secure. And there lay the Maryland
helpless on the shoal, with six or sever
hundred souls on board, so near the shore
that the late Captain Rynders' gun could
have sunk her from some ambush. Yes
The Seventh regiment at Annapolis wa,
the right man in the right placcl
Reveille. As nobody pronounces this
word Ia fraacdise, as everybody calls i
:. Revelee,' why not drop it, as an affrcia
; ton, and translate il the Sir your Stumps,
the = Peel your Eyes" the . Tumble Up,
or literally the " FAKE " !! Our suorers hat
KEEP, up this call so Justify since Midnight
that when the drum sounded it, we were al
ready. AT half-past seven we take up oul
r line of march, pass out Of the charmin.
grounds of the Academy, and move through