Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1862-03-18
"Falisu, Fc6. 10, 1862, Tor their beloved COUNT
One was a seaman, and the other
THOMAS . NARA,

Rebels raised au1 Ereencn Ut5EvJeu'
The officers first were lsuded, then the
wounded, those on the New York, then the
Cossuck lay along the wharf, in two tathom
of water. We had on our ship men having
an officer whora | had met frequently at
the camp, who called OFT to them as "e
were moyin. by him "Boys. I've good
news for you-we've bad great battle in
Teunessec-whipped shem-took $1,000
prisonera-ani you II be exchanged IL ten
days. We're going to Norfolk, where
you'll &c: new arms and clothing" lie
knew ,ha; was a lie, for chose .ege the
first to tell US, the night before, Of our
success at Fl. D0nelson. But his "boys'
have mo larnir'," as one Of 'em expressed
it when he wanted to sell book to Lieut..
Beaver Out of Company Of sixty, but
sic could w.i,e their namcs. Newspapers
seemed novelty to them, BY the way they
stared at the Yankees sitting around thick
90 every stump aud log in camp, newsPa-
per in hand While the officers were with
them, in Camp Jordan, they did not say
much-but after they left, to go on the
Spalding, (sent there several days before
the privatos embarkci) they talked very
freely, and said their officers had promised
them o months furough after exchauge-
they "reckoped they'd stand right smart
chance of not finding US after that On
the ship, an in,el.igea: man asked me II
it was true that our Government had sold
all the slaves they captured TO tho span
iards? They had been SO informed. lie
said they were also told that when our
forces marched up to Cen'erVilla, they
burned and destroyed everything, ald tha;
husbands and fathers bad to stand by and
see their wives aud daughters ravished
before their eyes. There were numbeE.ess
things of this kind, in which we found
them SO grossly misInformed as to US, that
they would have been ludicrOus, were they
not TOO dreadful.
Each Company was taken out, the rolls
called, and names checked. To some, it
gave spring 80 the step, as they reached
shore and bTea,hed the pure fresh air and
fel. that thoy we're free again--but not all
pot even a good portion of them. They
had their choice-tO be drafted, or to vol
uuteer. Each county had TO furnish one
man in three. They anxious!y inquired
what would be doue with them? \ ma
jlrity wished to be taken to New York,
though they dreaded the cold. 1t was the
careless, light-hearted boys only, seemed
to gain elasticity: the men, advanced in
years, who had left families and homes,
who had now seen what war was, heard
the battles roar, seen its nurderous
effects, the hardships, the waste Of every
thing, disease in lis worst f0rms-under
those rough clothes, am sure, there was
much thinking Of these things. Then with
them were carried out the sick of each
Company, his name checked SO that he
might be accounted for-some GO in that
500-in various stages, from him leanin :
feebly on the helping am, to him upon
the litter, that four stout men gently car.
ried out saw the sharp imprint of death
on some. Then there we're 60 wounded
prisoners, in various maDgled shapes. Yes,
felt that on those men, patria tic appeals
would have much less effect in the future
The Sd Georgia Reg, now stationed on
tie Dismal Swamp Canal, were on duty TO
receive the prisoners. A line Of their
sentries was placed abou. ten fee. from the
wharf, and it looked odd to see them with
blue (Union) oveTcoa;s CT, captured in the
Fanny. They were very bitter, and said
they we're itching for fight. They got,
however, the length of our Penrsylvsuia
tongues. "Scuthern chivalry'-Oficers,
pretending to be gentlemen, allowing their
men, when We had landed under cover of
Gag of truce, to give over prisoners who
we had treated better than our own men,
to use coarse, insulting language The
nearest, dirtiest Of them all, hailed from
Norristown, Pa. | have no particular
wish to 60 into battle agaiu-that lie, l
don't love f.hting-but | will deem my
self aud our Regimen. particularly favored
if we ever get a chance at those self-com-
plscent individuals. They badly need
scuichiog. They we're ,he first Regiment
of Rebels that came to Firsinia-wero in
Western Virginia-sent down from Nor
folk to reinforce HatteTas-stopped at
Roanokc Island, on hearing that Hattera:
was lost, and built those nice lodgings for
us-never have been in fghi, but some
of their Officers were Fillibusters under
Walker. 80, blessed Cod - said an cid
darkey with snow-ghite locks to US this
morning, "but doy were debbils. No use
to deny EN- nuthiug-dey'd hab it. Dey
stole twenty bushels of potatoes before our
own eyes may say, and we neber know'd
nothin' about i; till a neighbOr two miles
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