The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-28
Correspondence of the Freeman'-From the
Third Vermont Regiment.
CAMP, LYON, at Chain fridge, !


! EDITOR FREEMAN The Third Vermont neg
iment has been greatly honored, and IN TN
wise On Wednesday last, at three o CLOCK
NJ, our Brigade was paraded under command
of our much thought-ot General, having nae
limitations of a review by Gen. Mcclellan
We waited very patiently for the arrival OF tn
Hope of his Country, as he is called, little an
ticpating that there were to be those present
beside of whom he would be scarcely perceptl
Bile. First arrived an open carriage, driven oJ
very sedate, very genteel, and very black spec
linen Of the present bone Of contention Or
the back seat sat a tall man with black hail
and large nose. BY his side sat fat man will
large nose. Next came carriages with short
lean, tall, fat and medium men with large noses
While We were guessing who they could be, all
three Of our batteries opened fire, and " Old
Virginia shore echoed back the sound Of the
salute to the President of the United States.
had front view, side view, and q back view
of the notables, including " Old Abe" Seward,
Chase, Cameron, etc., etc., and saw nothing re-
markable save the popularity before mention
ed. Almost every one had u very large nasal
organ, and while we stood at " Attention. L
could but muse upon the remarkableness of the
fact, and began to philosophise. had heard
that the nose was the sink of the brain. Nee
essarily large brain must have large nose, as
large house must have a large sink, and L
could but think that If the outside diagnoses
were indications, they all must have good brains.
When marching in review, and the Third
Vermont passed, the President asked, What
Regiment is that?" No one knowing, Gen.
Mcclellan, when he saw it, asked Of our Gene
raj the same question, and was modestly an
swered by him. Formerly mine, sir,--the
Third Vermont He turned and gave direc-
tons that the President should be informed
10 be 50 particularly noticed by him we 50
much love and respect, is an honor, indeed, and
1 venture to say that not soldier but inwardly
resolved the Vermont Third should nobly sus-
tain the good name 1t had gained. Mcclellan
has that peculiar faculty Of grasping all that
the eye covers, but few men possess. If there
is anything in physiosnomy, his head is capa-
ble OF containing much and he is shrewd, too
Ills eye is observation and comprehension, his
mouth determination and discipline, and his
whole face command and strategy. With such
a man to lead, and such men as are now hover
ing along the Potomac to follow, victory is GER
tain.
There is a cloud-at first it was no larger
than mans hand--in the North. That cloud
is increasing, sweeping onward toward the South,
leaying upward and outward for a moment I'm
I'll it hovels for a moment along the Potomac,
'eady to burst in angry torrents upon the ranks
II rebellion ranks already shattered by dssen-
lions gotten up by ambitious leaders, by dis
'ase engendered by the want OF proper COM
nlssarlat, by the dissatisfaction of those who have
become tired Of the reign of terror under which
hey live, by reaction of feeling in those cheat
d and deceived by unprincipled leaders, by an
pgrowlng Union sentiment, consequent upon
he whole, that must ultimately crown our
rms with victory, and those of traitors with
efeat and ruin.
One company from our Regiment went out
o-day, accompanied by detachment from each
the other Regiments in our brigade, and
ompany Of Cavalry. They discovered about
We hundred of the enemy fired upon them.
eceived their fire, and fell back, the chivalrv
liking to the woods. The result of the whole
i'll probably be d newspaper paragraph, NAV be
telegram. These little matters of camp life
nd every day experience must be the amount
information | can send, tor the reason,
rstly, we are not allowed to tell what we know I
condly, we don't know anything to tell, get
ng about all of our news from the papers pub
shed In Washington and the North And this
wise, Tor human nature here is pretty much |
e same as in Vermont, and any news of any
ma lies through the brigade like wildfre-and
loses nothing IN the journey. We are can a
uiy OF the opinion here, however, that the I
dden rise OF the Potomac saved US, and through l
, Washington, from an attack and certainly S
would seem that there is One whose Hand Is /
retched forth in mercy to preserve our poor,
5tracted country from the riot and ruin blot
against her by unprincipled men, who is d
er US when the arm of flesh is weak who
elters us when no other shelter intervenes t
ID will eventually, using us as unworthy in '
crush out the last vestige of unbolv d
position tc our country and her laws r
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