The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-19
GREEN MOUNTAIN FREEMAN, MAY 10. 1862.

beat this? On the ffih month of the year, and
The fifth day Of the month, at tue o'clock In
the evening, an engagement took place between
the .fnh Wisconsin and the tJfth North Carolina
troops. Fire hundred men, or whereabouts,
we're killed and wounded, and only tIOs officers
in the North Carolina reg iment escaped with
their lives and with proprlety we might add,
that fUe hundred homes are now IN mourning.
| We arc now on the battle field where The dead,
and am sorry to add, the ", anded were lying
;ust us they had fallen, Poor fellows All
night in that chilly rain they had suffered, and
strange to say many OF the wounded, on the
approach of cur men, played dead, Tor fear our
soldiers would kill them. They had evidently
been az Manassas and Lee ) Mil.
You have o5her correspondents who ure better
able, and perhaps more ready to give graphic
pictures Oh these dead, dylpt, and MoAnnS
scenes. | cannot 90 1t. Secang such sights IL
all the memory | wish OF blood, carnae6 and
groans, and feryently do pray that may neY-
er again behold them. Let me, however. give
you some isolated scenes. Near one OF the Tor
litic.tons IL Lieutenant o tie Sta North Car
olIna Regiment had fallen. He was a noble,
Intelligent looking young man, and IN his breast
poo ket there WAS u e!rer all sealed Tor his young
~ ttiiS lJdlI ilhu piSICcu IttGti
heard. The letter will be forwarded to his lam-
lily. Unhappy wife and mother, pity thee.
Inc next day, down in the fallen timber
and IN Il very obscure place. there was found
two men, both dead and standing erect. They
had pierced each other with their bayonets, and
there they stood supported by q log as high as
their breasts, looking, even in DEATH vengeance
at each other. But have not the heart for such
writings, and | cannot believe that your readers
have.
The slaughter was great, bat our victory was
compl2te. 1t certainly locks like Il battle, bat
thc rebels claim tlat 1t was only a skirmish with
tholr rear guard, and that their object is to draw
Us back where their TANKS will not be exposed
to iae fre ot oar gunboats aud then their army
NH en5aa:e us isnlay be -, but the farther
'llanc they get Just now the more will they ex-
pose Their flInhs.
o. the plan AMI gcncralssip Of this battle |
cay nolhing. BOA will be" ably discussed
ny sEociaIs. has it will take some time for the
truth to reach ypu. as cy:ry avenue Of lnre!il-
ssence viii IG loaded down wlth sensation and
exaggerated statements and reports. Some cats
have very long tails, bus Uncle Sam army puss
beats tiit:A ali. Ne arc now in camp recruit
ny ir"m Our nuch fatigue an! long, iapid
marches, Itc tr0GJS are III fine spirits and
~ yet do not l4atn that the VI. Brigade mas
LOST mar n it0nt OF the second line Of intronch-
mcn's They have /" evacuated everything.
;lnd gone We snpposo, to rhc Cnickahoniny
81 'ne wy, the boys have their own sport Over
this idea Of i" cvac1atins." last highs tive OF
oar company had Il little fFolc in their tent
"hca onc 9e8an tosWitch the other with small
hickory, Stop, hold on cries old Lot, "
oyacu@te. Ill such pleas3n,ry is only al in
DIX Of the good spirits Of or men.
And. by the way again, it occurs to nc that
had better : cvacuatc," though have not
written halt desired to, but fully enough to
create muss among your typos, provided they
get part Vi this manuscript rs 1" take" during
a " drag But be patient boys, mean girls,
guess, for soldering and type setting is IN great
demand just now and then, you know, there is
the glOry-only think of that, and never forget
ycvr correspondents injunction, that such is
iVG. Yours: &C., SEE. SEE, Ess.