The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-11-04
tour War Correspondence
From the First Vermont Battery.
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From the First Vermont Battery,
HEADQUARTERS FIRST VERMONT BATTERY,
Camp Parapet, La, Oct. 2, 1862
EDITOR FkEEMAN
SiR-l have promised to write a letter to the
Fceman, but have not yet done SO, will now
do as we'll as can in this letter, as the friends
of the lst Vermont Battery don't hear from us
very often except through private SOURCES We
arc encamped at this place, and no signs Of any
movements at present. The right and LETT sec
tons are Quartercd on the same ground that we
| occupied when we got here from Ship I.land
| last spring, and the centre section is quarteted
near tie - Muddy Mississippi The boys, that
ls, those that are well, eel happy and contcntta
There are az present II boys Oh the sick report,
and { in the hospital, which leaves 100 men Tor
duty. There have been the following deaths in
the Company since We left TIE "Green Noun
tain State" VIZ:
Warren Curtis, died June 4th Chas F.
Bancroft, died June IA Lieut.. Ii, n. Colburn
drowned July Z; Enas s. Anterior, died July
2G Patrick Cahli, died Aug Ii; Asa Ii
Winch, died il lis tent, Aug. "a Inland Hal
died Aug 80 :; Jeremiah Heath, ded Sept 2
George Matt son, died Sept. S :; Timothy Cahill
died Sept 49, Solomon &. Coburn, died Sept
70; james ii. Clark, died Sept. q; Joseph
Godfrey, died Sept. %, August Heating, dlel
Sept 20 Murdock McLo0d, Aug. q.
The following are the names OF those dis
charged and sent home, being unfit for soldiers
among Whom is one Of our ofi:ere, who re
sisneo
Alexander Wesley, July 5th Smith Clark
June 5th John i. Doliof, die after discharg,
Sept. 9; Henry Goodwin, June 5 Levi Hill
Sept. 0 Byron Wheeler, July 5 2od Lieut.
s. 3. HebAri, July IL; Alonzj f Lord, Sept
9; Scrgt. l.. -. Hi, Sept. ..
also give you the names Of those promoted
lately:
Lieutenaats-Sergt Major William Osmund
to Senior Dad Lieutenant Quartermas ,er Serg
Thomas Reade, to JUNO, 2nd Lieutenant,
Staff Srgeants-lst Sergeant Edward Z
Greenleaf, to Sergeant Major. Private Jane
Il. Riker, to Quartermaster Sergeant.
Chiefs Of Pieces, wHh rank Of Ssrgeant-Cor
poral John Wordsworth. Acting Chief of Nc
gun. Private Oscar F. Rice, to Chief of Nc
gun. Corporal Robert Collins, 10 Chief c
NJ. 5 gun. Artifcer s. R. Platt, to Chief {
No. E gun.
Gunners ard Chiefs of Caissoas, with ran
of Corporal-Private Cnas. f. Goodwin,
Gunner. Private Joseph II. Sendell to Chi
Caisson. Private Henry Sergeant to Chief Cai
son. Private Oliver X. Wyman, to Gunner
, Private Charles Ransom, to Z ief Caisson.
You will see by the above there has been qui
E a change iD the company since it left the stat
Our sabres were taken away on the Goth to ar
IA Brigade which is going into active servic
' which leaves us as we were when we lett Il
State, (wthoul arms). We all hop, to be arm
in some definite kind of way before long al
to have horses furnished US, an article we new
have had, although there were some sent fro
the State which We supposed were for u.s. B,
we never got them, and 1t don look as thou
r we ever should get them.
IS am very respectfully,
. NlCKoDEMUs.
lst VI. Battery.