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

almost omuipotent here, for weary miles
through Georgetown, and on up the Poto-
mac till within mile or more of Chain
Bridge. when we left the river road and
up the mill to the right in direct line
back by the hill road towards Washington
a mile or more. This was after dark
please do not forget. Here we again faced
to the right about nearly, and on the line
of the Aqueduct which supplies Washing
ton with water, plodded our weary way
through the mud nearly ankle deep for a
mile or two, when in the darkness we
turned to the left at nearly right angle,
and in few moments found ourselves at
Camp Lyon on the Maryland side of the
Potomac, at the end of Chain Bridge. On
across the bridge and up the hill past fort
Ethan Allen, the then home of the Vt. Sd,
we turned into our blankets, Chose of us
who had any, on the ground in the open
air, at | 2 o'clock at night, and slept. For
myself | found the hospital of the Sd, III
which my brother is one of the nurses, got
cup of cold coffee, some bread and cold
boiled mackerel, laid down on my rubber
| inside the tent, borrowed his WOODEN blank
ct and spread over me and slept we'll. This
was at o'clock at night. | was more
fortunate than many of our boys, for they
got never mouthful of supper, and many
of them had put their knapsacks on board
the baggage wagons, and they had stopped
where we turned off the river, and did not
follow us till morning, so that they had
many of them no blankets save their rub
bcrs. being connected with the hospital
department, started in one of the two am
balances containing some 20 of our sick,
but as some of our boys fell out of the
ranks unable to travel, and fell into the
ambulances, | fell out and into the ranks
with friend Stetson, who fell out of the
carriage about the same time, leaving my
knapsack as pillow to one of the sick
After we left the river the drivers of the
ambulances turned their faces again tow
ards Washington, and actually drove back
all the way with my poor boys, and came
on in the morning with them somewhat
exhausted you may well guess. My KNAPP
sack Was stolen sometime after | left the
ambulance, probably in Washington, and
| was left without any wooden blanket or
a change of shirts, or drawers, fvotings
&c have neither thread pins needless
towels, or in fact anything else, and how
am to get them | do not know.
We are encamped near fort Ethan Al
len, now occupied by the 4th Vt. regiment
while the Sd are encamped between them
and us, and across the road from the Sd
are the 2l encampcd. saw NJ. Atwell
of the Cd, one of our johnson boys. His
health is not good, though / believe the
general health of the regiment is good
The Morgan Guards of the Sd are in good
condition, only like everybody else here
they look little Indian like in color
Excepting a few cases of diarrhea, and
few cases of measles, which have COM
menced to make their appearance to-day,
the health of the regiment is good. Cap
tain Benton is looking we'll. Lut Lieut.
Stiles will be unable to remain here. and
proposes to return home as soon us posi-
BILE. The boys in company d will be sor-
ny to lose him ! assure you. Assistant
Surgeon Shaw and Ward Master Hawley,
both men of the rig stamp, assisted by
good and competent nurses, have all been
overworked on the journey, but are still
up to the scratch. need not say to those
WIN KNOW OtetSOn tnaJ nc was everywhere.
If any man was sick, there was Stetson
If he was only wearicd and exhausted, and
needed little rest, there was Stet, ready
to smooth his pillow. If any man Was
drunk and thought he was sick, there was
Stet., ready to come the "balmy" over
him. Was there cup of coffee to be
made. or chicken to be fricassced. there
was Stet again. Generally useful and
good fellow" in the extreme is Stetson.
The boys from johnson in the Sd are
looking we'll and hardy. Fircr Scott es-
peciallY does not look like the little boy