Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-05-19
Letter from a wheeling Boy In south
Carolina.
CAMP STEVENS, S. C., May Is

CAMP STEVENS, s. c., May Is, 'es.
Editors ntsltigeacer:
The Tooth nre just about to return to
Beaufort, after two week9 of advanced pick
ct duty among black berries, sea crabs, fish,
gnats and mosquitoes. 1t has been high
carnival time with us, and this morning
Company a IS melancholy over the termiu-
alton of their gay time. Only one days. du-
ty in three, and the rest of the time 10 wan
der withersOeyer we listed. a salt water
bath in the morning, aud, mayhap, as one
came home from the far of station of his
guard-pOst, a shot at a wild turkey or
squirrel or rabbit, and then, a boat excur-
ston for fish or fowl, gave u zest to our bean
soup and red, white aud blue meat. All
afternoon black berryiug was the go the
blue coats deployed as skirmishers, and two
bushels of the fine, luscious, dead ripe dew
beI ries was the addition to our supply, rem
dering even U. s. light cakes palatsable.
The eprofusion with which these berriesgrOw
is astonishing. Every field Is black with
them, They are the same that we gather
in the latter part OF July at home. only like
everything else here, larger, jucier, and
sweeter. Truly, nature has done wonders
for this spot of morally polluted South
Carolina. "AIl that's best of light and
life" seems to laxuriate in this sunny,
Southern, glowing summer. The birds
sing more sweetly, their COlors are gayer
and livelier, the trees greener, fruits more
Profuse, richer and larger than elsewhere.
Let us go to supper. When the sugared-
delicacY has been appreciated to the extent
of quart apiece, as they are dished ont
by our Autocrat of the CoEee-pot, game
OF cricket finishes up daylight. Decidedly
pastoral this experience, aud heartily ap-
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and stern duty, 1t adds new elasticity
to step and soul.
At night, off guard, We reposs in houses,
aristocratic for soldiers. On guard, some
of the nuisances of the warmth, fertile of
varmints, manifests themselves. Our lot
being to stand along swampy stream, is
generally TO have sand flea roost on each
rib. The gnats are myriads A legion is
allowed to settle on the forehead, and are
then .'swiped" of by sweep of the hand.
The gallinipers charge IN platoon. One
made at West Alexander boy. He
lodged behind a live, oak tree !; the skeeter
stuck his bill clear through. The soldier
clinched it on his own side, and then
marched out and bayOueted the flying
dragon. / tell the tale as he told it to me.
Friends need not apprehend our being
caught asleep on post. Scents of Araby,
the blest, but the malaria of the sWamps
entertains the olfsctories the WHILE
Crocodiles, bitterns, snlpes, swamp hens,
frogs and night birds, mako music for the
ear. But daylight brings the "relief' and
the joys aforesaid. Never pleasure With
out its pain.
some hO,rrets Of Eden We still Inherit
But the trail Of the serpentis over them all.
In fishing. Captain Templetou and Cor
poral Brobst have been very successfuI.-
They caught one day seven large drum
| fish, weighing from 20 to 100 pounds sew
erally-a fine mess for the whole of Com
paEy A, It seems trivial, sucha life, when
we hear of the endurance and heroism of
the soldiers in other parts, but it must be
remembered that it is not ours 10 arrange
these things. laf
a few original efFusiOhs fOund In the
planters house in which our ''reservep
is quarteFed may amuse.. Our regiments
take turns in doing this picket duty. A
10th Highlander scribhles on the wall:
1 The dutg here which We have done
Is like that done IN PlAnders,
| And viii Tomorrow be relieved jl@
by dirty aiehigAndeTs. li
There beiug TRUTH as well as poetry in
this an iueeused 'GAnder replies in tssar.
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Yes, We aro dirty, shat b true, u - &
But only on the akin. 80 .
Some are d rty through and throu u, -
Though oatWarAly they're clean.
The 18th are quite sublime,
II For making lies and writing rhymes
On South Carolina plaster.
The 'Gandess are good fellows. Inlthef
/ late skirmish at Wilmington Island the
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