Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-10-25

practlclng with shot ana smell LOT an hour
or two. The whizzing of the hasty mes
sengers must be anything but pleasant in
the ears of the enemies of our country.
The health of the 9th is good as yet.
tho the measles are having their run. "
There are also few cases Of Bilious Fe-
yer. Co. ID has men sick in hispital,
besides one (Franklin Bailey of Wolcott)
left in Brigade Hospital the 9th inst sick
with fever hear he is getting better
Of the 7 in hospital here, five have the
measles. J. Burns, 2. Miles, Geo. Garvin,
NJ. D. Emerson and H. A. Davis L. Alb
bolt, and perhaps some others sick in
quarters with the measles, and A. Bugbee,
phtbisic, and L. Guptill, fever, make up
the 7 III hospital. Lieut.. Stiles is look
ing better than when last wrote you.
The boys from Johnson are comfortable,
both here and in the Sd, as also are the
Stowe boys.
Capt. Benton, here, as at home, is pref
ty sure to see all that is moving, and is
generally respected throughout the entire
regiment. His boys get looked after, and
it is matter of remark that Co. u is the
best behaved Company in the regiment.
We in the hospital, (as attenants) are COM
Portable, tho Stetson has been sick for
some days. he is better now. We are all
busy, early and late; we have some 20
in hospital.
Weare rather hoping some of our friends
in Lamoillc will send us little butter,
and crumb or two of Cheese. A little
maple sugar would be acceptable I'm sure.
Any thing in this line designed for our
use in hospital service, might be directed
to John n. Stetson. This is for use Of
hospital attendants. We have no such
Injuries except we buy them of the sutler
and butter at 80 cts, and cheese ut 20 cts
per pound, is little tough I'm sure
somebody will send us something, soon
We have no surgeon yet, but Assistant
Surgeon Shaw is still busy, and thus fal
has been very successful in his practice.
Of the sick in Co. d, might say that
with the exception of Bugbee they are all
doing well. If anything transpires Of
interest to you I'll write you again.
CAMP GRIFFIN, Va, Oct. Is, 1861.
| write you to correct mistake in my
letter of last night, as we'll as to make
some addition to it. | learn that the
battery employed yesterday was not as ]
stated Motifs, but Ayers; and that the
crowd of visitors who surrounded it, were
no less persoDages than the Prince De
Joinvelle and suit, and the Princess Clio
tbilla. neglected to speak of them
yesterday | think. 1t is a rare occurrence
to see a woman here at any rate, but the
advent of a fair woman, is one of the
things to be remembered. Since my let
ter of yesterday there have entered the hos
pital some 10 men, nearly or quite all of
them with the measles and all doing well.
Three or four from Co. D. Serg't lice is
looking better than two weeks ago.
Work ! work is the portion of the SOL
lier in the present campaign, if in no
other. There are forests to be fellcd. bat
teries and earthworks to be constructed,
roads to build, streams to be bridged adj
vances to be made, and the mighty mass
of humanity concentrated in the army of
the Potomac, rests not from It's labor day
or night. Fair or foul, wet or dry, it is
all the same in point of duty. The Coun-
try calls and labor with its tens of thous;
ands Of willing hands, comes promptly to
the rescue The soldier in this campaign,
tho wet to the skin, and suffering with
hunger. overwork and exhaustion, are
invariably ready to do duty, for lone
hour longer" And while the soldier is
thus busy, and suffering for the good of
the country, it is surprising that they as
should be so careless of their hardly earn
ed wages, and spend, as too many of them
do, recklessly, the money really needed
by their friends and faniliis at home
Those who have no families forget that
their wages carefully husbanded may, in
after years, be the first step towards in
dependence, in financial sense.