Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-05-03

We are permitted TO pupiish the ioiio"-
ing from a member Of the Washington
Light Guard, 9th Regiment M. V. NJ,
now at Washington. The writer was a
compositor in the office of the DAILY AT
LAS AND BEE, and left here at an hours
notice. Like all the employees on this
paper, he sciH. fight weA The writer says:
WASHINGTON, Saturday noon.
Dear Mother-We arrived in Washing
ton last night, and are quartered in the
new Capitol, the room next to the Senate
Chamber, and | am now at the desk OF
the renowned Senator Douglas, writing to
you. We have the use of the desks of
the Senator's for writing purposes. | am
well, but shall feel a little better when |
get something to eat. | have had only
one piece of pie to eat since Friday night.
But we shall have things fixed so as to
have them regular before long.
You will have read in the papers, before
you receive this, about our first fight
at Baltimore. We had a pretty rough
time of it while it lasted, but whipped
them. AS soon as we arrived in Balti-
more the mob commenced on us, calling
us all the names they could lay their
tongues to and then came a perfect show
er of brickbats, stones. and balls from re-
v~olvers, which were fired at us. The Or
der was that we should not return the fire,
but the boys stood it as long as they
could, and then W e opened at them from
the windows of the cars. We killed
seventeen of them. and they two of our
regiment, and there is one of our boys
who will probably not recover, as he was
shot very badly. But we had made up
our minds to 60 through Baltimore to
Washington, where we were ordered. and
90 we did. For fifteen miles after we got
out of the city we had our guns pointed
from the windows, to kill those who were
tearing up the track, which they did all
along. Just before we got into the city
they tried to run our car off the track in
to the water, but they stopped that sud-
denly when one of their men fell into the
water, with a ball through his head.
They had sent word to us from Pheladel-
phia hat we could not pass through that
city, but the Colonel made up his mind
that he could, and 60 we did. We had
the car that we were in stove all to piec-
es, by brickbats and pistol shots, but they
got enough of it before they got through.
When we heard hat we would have a
warm reception, every one was eager to
get there and take it, and show those "plug
ugly" secessionists that when the Massa-
chusetts boys were ordered to do a thing,
they were going to do it. They had all
the advantage in the world. We were
cramped up in q car, two on a seat, and
had no room to get about. If the Colonel
would have let two or three companies
out, there would have been a good many
more among the missing. There were q
good many of our boys that were hurt
with stones thrown at them. I had Q
T pistol fired through the window near where
| was, and saw the man who fired it, and
shot him so dead that he did not breathe
) after he was struck. They said the bal
went through his head. | will give you
Q two or three instances of how they acted
We had to change cars at Baltimore, anC
had to march some way to get IN th,
other cars. They must have had som,
arrangement with the secessionists-th'
President of the road-and we were al
separated, the regiment not together, onl,
detached companies, and we had to marcl
up, and that gave them a good chance a
us. The company that had the color
|, had the worst time of it, as they wer
; bound to seize the Massachusetts fac, ant
q then they would have something to shov
: and boast of. But they did not get ii
; although of the men on each side of i
two were shot through the legs, and
good many Of them were hurt with stones
: Another company was marching up, wheI
9 one of the plug uglies' stepped up an,
bowed one of the mems brains out. Til
man next to him turned round and sho
9 the man through the head who had kille'
f; his comrade. A whole company fired O.
one man, who had been very prominent i