Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1862-07-31
OUR ARMY CORRESP ONDENCE.
ALGIERs, NEAR New ORLEANS, !
July 9TH, 1862.

EDITOR PHu:NIx: The Sth Vt. Regiment
still remains in this place, having now been
five weeks quietly quartered in the Railroad
station. 1t is a most favorable location as far
as health and comfort are concerned, and they
are, during this heated season, of prime i'm
portance. The hospital is large, airy, and the
coolest place in all the ncighborhood being at
once as open as possible, and yet protected from
the dampness which is here so fatal. 1t is much
as if the second story of the Melodeon Factory
in Brattleboro were thrown into one room, and
occupied with rows of neat iron-framed cots
excepting that the hospital building is of brick
instead of wood.
need hardly say that we regret Surgeon
Gales departure, especially at this trying sea-
son, and sincerely hope that the free Northern
air may restore his strength so shattered by this
facilitating climate.
Our wounded officers and men of whom l
wrote you in my last, are doing remarkably
we'll. Mr.. Akeley of West Brattleboro, shot,
1--WE feared fatally, in the BRAIN is steadily i'm
proving to form as l trust a new illustration of
Macbeth's celebrated sentence regarding death
from such causes, and what is more important,
to show what perfect composure of mind can
do to overcome bodily injury. Were it not
that cannot violate the privacy of the sick
room by giving you names, / should delight to
mention cases l have witnessed of pain pa
tiently endured and death camly looked in the
face, to the honor of our frai yet immortal ma
ture. Added to the former sufferers we have one
wounded in the finger and thumb by the acct
dental discharge of his own gun, an another
severely shot in the right hand while on guard
at night, by a cowardly assassin who failed to
murder his unconscious victim, so nearly as to
miss his heart as he walked and hit only his
hand swinging at his side. 1t was vary mar
row escape, Illustrating the spirit of the foes
we have to encounter here, and indeed typical
of the whole course OF the rebellion. May our
country's wound heal as kindly as this senti-
nePs is closing, and may the leaders of
the great conspiracy not escape their due re-
ward as this midnight criminal probably will
We are astonished, more even than you at
home could be, by the talk in the British Par
lament about Ger. Buffers proclamation against
the rebellious ladies of New Orleans We
could see it was just the needed thing. 1t
touched the matter exactly. 1t had just the
effect desired. No surgeon ever reached with
keen firm point the core of an ulcer more skill
fully than the General the female spitefulness
1t made the acute distinction needed between
the loyal and the rebellous. 1t appealed to
just the motives every man and woman of
honor recognises. Not a patriotic citizen was
wounded by it, not secessionist of either sex
failed to vince under ii.
laundering John Bull to talk of the license
and rapine it must stir up among our soldiery
venture to say no woman of any pretence to
decency has ever been disre ,pectfully regarded
by any Of our troops-no accusation even has
ever been made against any of them. Their
conduct in New Orleans is what it would be in
New York or Boston, excepting that the strin-
gent orders given from the first have made them
much more scrupulous than at home. 1t was
amusing to see the houses near our city quar-
tiers, close at first and without sign of life,
SIuuuaiiy opening, now u uuoi anu HOW u ullnu,
now fair face appearing then two or three
ladders venturing on the verandahs, and soon
all open and fearless and when the band dis
coursed sweet sounds at eventide, to have a
crowd of well dressed women and children col
lec,ed round in evident enjoyment Of the patri-
otto music.
The Lords of the British Senate do not know
what citizen soldiers means, and show by their
cant both their ignorance of us and the vileness
Of their own standard by which they Judge.
Daily passing through the streets should not
now know from any peculiarly of social inter-
course that war ragged or bitterness ranked.
1t does rankle venomously, no doubt; but the
proclamation has efFectually suppressed it from
doing harm.
May the 9th soon be full and strong. We
rejoice in its success in recruiting thus far.
w.