Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1862-10-03
Letter from the e7th lceImcn,.
Correspondenee Of the Fremont Journal.
SUFFOLK, Va. Sent. 18th 1869

SUFFOLK, Va, Sept. 18th, 1862.
FRIEND KEELER:--There has been a grea
change in the programme since my last. Thi
peaceful and quiet village was startled few
days since by our scouts reporting that the enc
my, amounting to 1000 infantry, 1000 cavalr,
and SIX batteries of artillery, had crossed thu
Blackwater and were enroute for this place
This was rather startling news for US, and we al
once began to shuttle about and look up rein
! forcements and good place to Skeddddgc as our
| forces were entirely inadequate to contend
against such army. We were however.
somewhat relieved on Monday by the arrival of
the l30th N. Y, and the 9th Mass, of April 10.
1861 notoriety, and yesterday by the 18th N y
Yesterday orders were issued that each man be
supplied with one days rations, and 60 rounds
of cartridges, and that all hands stand in readi-
ness to tall IN at moments warning. The pick
cts were strengthened, and a more rigid conrse
pursued with passes (Here let me state, that
since the departure of Gen. Mansfeld's troops,
the pass system has been thoroughly overhaul
ed and recognized, by Capt. johnson of the
18th Indiana. The old family and neighbor-
hood passes are no more, but each individual
must have his or her own pass.) The cavalry
kept the saddles their horses all night, and at
o'clock all the infantry were formed into line
But nary gray back was to be SEEN To-day we
have been reinforced by the arrival of Gen. Wis
sells brigade of seven regiments, and battery D,
of the 4th United States artillery. Gen. Dix
arrived here to-day. If they want to see us
let 'em come. | know of no arrangements for
their reception, only that it shall be warm and
spirited.
would not be surprised if we had an engage
ment here soon as this is a sort of key to Nor
folk and Petersburg.
/ called at the Provost Marshal's Yesterday,
and had chance to see something of the enor-
nous duties he has to perform lst. Every body
must have pass. Every bill of sale made by
any dealer must have his signature before the
sale is valid: He must furnish subsistence to
the numerous contrabands that pass this way,
DC, dc. While in his office got look at some
of the F. F. VS., in the personages of 3 young
ladies' as beautiful as God ever intended women
should be-skin with marble polish and com
plexion as fair as if the sun had never shone up
on it. All, thought /, those hands have never
known work. This is one of the beauties of
slavery, and it is not to be wondered at that the
women OF the South are the most rabid secesh
They love slavery, for it is slavery that has made
the women of the South, II mean the bon ton, J
what woman desires above all else, to wit: The
envy of her own sex and the admiration of ours
1t would be very unjust to estimate Southern
society at this time, as only one half of the real
"uppercrust' is at home, and those, think have
dropped their feathers. But with all their pomp
and pride they are ignorant / have talked with
young misses of 16a and IL, said to be collegiate
graduates, who did not know the distance to the
nearest town, or the population of their own
place or any other The only thing they seem
TO be posted on are Yankees, JEFF. Davis and the
Southern Confederacy. Their dialect is very
much tinctured with the negro, so that more
than half their words have a negro accent
But how could this be different when the young
child learns its first lessons in talking from the
negro nurse, and the children Of the two races
are allowed to play together until they are al
most young men and women? STILL the negro
has no influence the lohHe racel Oh such folly
hate Slavery the most of all things. hate il,
because it drags the white man down, and makes
him equal with the blacks. The white man is
pulled down more by the black than the black is
elevated by the white. have seen the demor-
alizing effects of slavery on the white man. 1T
either makes them tyrants or Slaves, and creates
different spheres in the same race.
RespeetfullY yours, ]. O. @.