Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1861-06-20
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the New York Ncws, WAS written
by private in the New York Sixty !
Ninth Regiment, at Georgetown, TO
hits wife, detailing the privatians anu
treatment 10 which he and bis com. |
rades are subjected, and which, it
would seem, they are prevented from
making known to the public, by a
s} st N of espionage over their let |
l. rs sent home:
GEORGETOWN HEIGHTs COLLEGE, ,
WASHINGTON, D. G. May 9, 1851 |
SIxTH-NINTH REGIMENT. J !
DEAR WIFE: i received your very
kind ana affeciionate letter and en-
glad to (in you and the child are we'll, |
which is moro than ! can tell you |
am. Nv dear wife. We are IN most
wretched state with hunger and weak !
ness, and bordering on a state oil
starvation. Our raiions ara sinking
pork and biscuit ouce a day. Which |
we refused to eat and which the dogs
would not come near. Tive Of our
officers were taken and confined in
the guard house from the afternoon
uotiI II o'clock next day, for re-
,ortiug to the Co!ouel and Qusrter-
master thai the meat stunk and was
not fit for dogs, and that the men
wers not able to come TO drill with
hunger and weakness. One Of those
eflicers was Capt. McIver The Col
onel called a court martial on the
9th r. who WAS a Lieutenant, and
turned bin out OF The regiment, and
kept bis sword, sash and belt, which
belonged to himself. A great num-
ber of our men would not swear into
The Government in consequences OF
their treatment, aud sixteen in mum
b,r were stripped stark naked On the
The square before tie regiment snd
al The Government clothes taken
/ from them. Father Mooney (the
Cbaplsip) intercsded aa much as
possible for them, but TO. no USE
He was not able even to get them
something to eat along the TOAD or
give them a pass. The ColoaeI said
the treatment Wss too good Tor the
id seeessionists. Capt. Dolian,
Capt. MeIssr, Capt. Cavanagh aud
Sergeant Birmingham are very klna
To those we return our most sincere
thanks and shall never forget their
kindneas. They have saved our
lives many time by giving US mon
ey to buy provisions and giving
ns a kind word. whica We could not
get from any of the rest Of the eff
GERS; bot ii we complained we were
sick or hungry, We were locked up
in the guard house. That was our
redress. We were lying Gu The
floor like hounds in kennel la the
, Old Country, and then were told 1t
was too good for us.
Over three hundred men have lett
; the regiment, or the muskets are all
{ here and mono to claim them, So
,tth.t's the way We find out the num-
+ Der that's gone. There are but few
of the old number here. Col. Cor
, coran paid $4,000 for carrying The
f baggage to Washington on wagons,
a vans and carts of ali sorts. Thi:
r money should have been used TO puf
: chase food for the men. One OF tn
q Commissaries, when asked fer ssme
Il,hin TO eat, gave out one pound o
II rice aud one pound of something
"a else to make soup for one hundred
I and fif:y-eight men. You ma.
in Judge what treat was furnished to
ia that number Of men.
We ale obliged to send our letter
M TO the General Post Office, or the,
~ would be opened. and net bs sent
!? they contained suy account OF ho'
~ We are treated, and all the latter
thus sent h We to BE- concealed Ia
there is Post Office establishe
u in the College. Dear wife, cou'
70 write a history of our bad treatmei
4 since We LETT home. to Annapolis,
y the Junction. and along ihe road !
~ Washington, that gOnlG make yo'
=, hair stand on all end, but it ia te
a long, and We bore it well. and e.
hv pected better times in Washingto
:. but, / am sorry to say, it Propt
,. worse. If the Government don
look to the men ia time, there "
MT he fifty men here in two week