Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1861-07-25
LIFE In THE CAMP.
NO. XIV.
Wusten for the Fayetteville Observer.


81 Written for the Fayetteville Observer.
CAMP TEoUsDALE, July 18th, '61.
3 Dir. Lditor:-I am still. aliv
and able to kick one foot at tim
with difficulty, | have beer
} greatly afflicted for the last tel
-ldays. | have examined the writ
ten symptoms that were developed
in Jobs Affections, and am pre-
Ipared to say that his Affections
Ewere not a circumstance to mine
OF boils, l guess that | had the
daddy of them all. But what
hurt me worse than anything else,
| [ had cultivated my boils with
| good care in order that ]. Knight get
a turlough. Twas certain that our
surgeon would give me one. Invent
to him with a face as long as old
Abe's proclamation when lie
called for senty-fve thousand
.troops} but to my utter astonish-
ment he said that my boils would
not come to a furlough. | had
made my arrangements to have a
gay time for ten or twelve days in
old Lincoln, but my pleasing an
tlcipatioi2s were cut as short as
Mrs. Van Tassil's pie crust, (and
that was SO short that it never
reached around to my side of the
table. We had some excitement
here last week, something that a
great many Of us never saw before,
and sight that | never wish to
see again. 1t made my young
blood freeze as Shakespeare or some
)ther nabob has it. One of the
volunteers deserted and was
,aught in Kentucky, brought back,
,ourt martialed, and sentenced to
pc drummed out of Camp. He had /
NE side Of his head shaved as (;
lick as q pcaled onion, he had on ,
uniform of red striped calico, $
,apts rolled up above the knees, {
'are footed, also two large horns,
ne on each side of his head and a I
wooden sword with a snake pain
ed on it. In that condition he =,
vas drummed through the brigade, i
ly belligerentpropensitiesa are now G
bove par. | guess now that l ]
I'LL stay my term out. | also saw e
mother one drummed out. He he'd +
cen handling some of Spaulding's O
glue, and some money S
hat did not belong to him stuck t
, bis fingers. | felt like crying t
II him; he was but a lad from his /
,oks. | think he was about six $
cen years old. | reckon | would t
ave shed tears, but about the t
me that | was ready somebody |,
an against my pet boil and it t
lade me SO mad that | did not '
ct in a good humor any more that "
ay. Col. Hatton's regiment has d
1T, nobody knows what place a
i'll be the destination, except me, Il
nd | am not going to tell for l |,
ould be violating 4he confidence h
the Brigadier General, and he 81
as great confidence in me. Our
oil. is now acting Brigadier Gen
al in the absence of General b
l gave him (Zollicof sc
~ a .fur9ozglt few days ago. W
o better substitute could have b
zen found for a Brigadier Gener- N
than Col. Fulton, and all things Il
i'll go on right while he is acting. tt
e have been looking for orders d,
leave every moment, and | eX- in
ct we will leave in few days. Ell
wish we would, for we are get J,
ng very mad and would like to w
n cut old Abe. We can doit. LII
n not in the habit of boasting, r
It are some in a bear fight. II
lieve that we have the healthiest Dc
giment in camp; the measles have m
'out played out, and with one or th
70 cases of fever cur regiment is al
good fix. CO
Yours. FLINT LOCK. Sc
A Clergyman Kissed for Preach -
q Reoce.-The Rev. Mr.. Arm 0'
rong of the Methodist church,
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