Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-10-16
In CAMP NEAR HAGERsrowN, MD,
September IA, 1862.

September IA, 1862.
DEAR JIM: *** am gettingmost dead sick
of this war, and if | only knew when | enter
| ed in the service that the war would be so
| long, and we would be led in such dam eter-
nal dogs life would have run away from the
| whole dam southern confederacy, for begin to
think that we have been humbugged the dam
| dest by our officers in the war. What in hell
| difference does it make to us, Jim, whether we
| live under old Abe or under JEFF. Davis =?
neither Of them care a dam for us, only TO do
| their fighting and voting, and then we may go
to hell for all they care. You must not think
that am turning Yankee; | am as good a
southern right man as ever, but | begin to
think that we have been fooled by God
dam'd set of Office seeking villins who are too
dam lazy to work, and have lost good fat pick
ings by the election of old Lincoln, and want
us poor white niggers to build their houses for
them, while they don't care dam if it fall on
us and kill every dam one of. us if they can
| keep their dam niggers and grow fat in office.
/ You may think that | act dam queer for a SER
gent in the confederate army, but | will be
dam'd if don't think its time to stop this dam
killing of poor white men that the rich may
grow richer If our captain was to hear me
talk 50 | expect he would have me reduced to
the ranks and put in the guard-house and
bucked or perhaps shot like poor Max; but
) ell YOU, JIM | have been thinking a good
deal lately over this matter, since | have got
in Maryland |. have talked to a good many
Yankees or Union men as they call themselves
= and they generally talk very sensible; they
seem to be down on the niger as much as any
one in the South, and say they only want t
preserve the Union under one government
y and almost begin to think it would be a dan
. shame to divide it for the sake of few office
seekers. | have found good deal of hospl
: tally among the people here, and find the,
a don't differ with us on many points. The
q only say preserve the Union, and let the dar
d niger 90 to hell. They ask us what we ar
b fighting for, and when We tell them for on
Il rights they say they have all they ever hao
|. and it would be dam folly for them to join us
e and, in fact, to speak candid, | can't fnall
see what rights we have lost to make such
a hell of a fuss about. | find things quite differ
ent here from what l expected. We was tol
te that Maryland was ripe for revolt, and as 500
! as we entered her borders 10000 or 5000
would flock to our standard; but we found "
had been fooled the damdest, for the people a
appeared 10 De very wei sdJlsleu WIFI the
IT condition, and if can Judge from the appea
J., ance of their country and the prosperous COZ
dition of the people, think they have made
dam good hit of it by staying in the Unlo
n and it would have been a dam sight better
IN we had all remained contented with our cond
n ton and not made dam set of fools of on
te selves am afraid we are in a trap here, al
* the half will never get out. | think it was
at dam bad thing in coming over here but '
ne were forced in manner, as we was near
c. starved out, and this is a land Of milk al
|honey; everything in abundance. tell yo
1t Jim, we live high to what we used to do IN t
as Old Dominion. We now get salt enough
es our meat, which makes it eat dam sight bt
SO ter than we have been used to, jim, burn Il
e, letter, or it may fall into the hands of some
on fcers, and if ours get hold of it | may cat
ng hell right soon hear your regiment has be
us ordered to report to Gen. Smith in kentuck
/? Let me know if it is so. / wish you were WI
sr. us. as we intend to 90 in shortly and give t
d. Yankees hell Your friend,
r w. j. GREEN.