Newbern weekly progress., 1862-11-01
nSEprEMnER Ia. 1860.
ais CAMP NEAR HAGERsrowN, Mp. !

IN CAAlF MAX hAttNSIOWN, MU. }
Dear jam We arrived here yesterday after
damnation, march you ever heard of We march
ed over 10 Md, on last Thursday week. Ever
since we left Gordonsvlle We have had hell Of
time; Iirst fighting with old Pope, then hard
marching after the God dam Yankees and living
on green corn and muddy water. Hard fighting
hard fare aud most God dam hard marches my
feet got so dam sore was forst to go barcfootcd.
can hardly get along. Our boys is nearly worn
out, but still we are dragged along at the point
Of the, bayonet by our dam'd officers, who don'l
care a dam for ns,,s We do the lighting and they
get the honor Of the whipping OF the dam Yam
KEGS, ""
Il am getting most dead sick of this war, and
il only knew when entered in the, service that
the war would be SO long, and We @culd be led
in such dam eternal dogs life, would have
run away from The whole dam Souhorn Gonied
=eracy, for begin to think that We have been
humbuggel tha da,n1ist by our officers in the
war. What IN hell difference does it make 30 us
jim. whether we live under old Abe or Jeg Da
Wis; neither Of them care a dian for .us;, only to
do their fighting and then we may 20 to hctl for
ljall they care. You must moi think that | AIN
turning Yankee, am as good southern right
man MS ever. b~t begin to think that we have
beoll fooled by God damd set of Office seeking
yilns who are too dam lazy to work. ind have
lost good fat pickins by the election Of old Lin
coin, anl want us poor white niggers to build
their house Tor thsin whiethey don't care dam
| if it fall on US and kill every dam ono of us ii
they can keep their dam niggcrs and grow fat in
| Office.
You may think that talk dam queer for
| sergeant in the Confederate army ,>but Twill be
dam'd il | don tsihnk its time to stop this dam
killing of poor white men that the rich may grow
richer Ii our captain was 10 hear mo talk so
expect he would have me reduced TO the ranks
and put in tho guard house. and bucked OF per
haps shot like poor Max but / tell yon, Jim,
have been thinking good deal lately over this
matter Since have got in Maryland have
talked to a good many Yankees; or Union men rs
they call themselves, and they generally talk very
sensible they seem to be down on the nigger Ms
! much as any one in the Su,,th and say they only
want 10 preserve tho Univn under our govern
ment; AMI almost begin to think it would be n
dam shame to dvdeit for tho sakeofa few Office
seekers. j have found a great deal Of hospitality
among the people here, anil find they loi't differ
with us on ms1ty points They ouly say preserve
Iht Upon, ana let The dam niger 20 TO hell.
They ask us what we are fighting for, and when
We tell them for our rights. they say they have
all they ever had, land it woull be dam folly f5r
them to Join no, nnd;:;n fact, TO speak candid, !
cant finally spe what rights We have lost to make
such he'll Of fus about fud things quite
different here from what expected. We was
told that Marylan was ripe for revolt, and as
soon as wcentered her borders 40 900 or $4,000
would flock 10 orr standard; butwe found we
had been fooled the damdest, Tor the people I'll
appeared TO be very well satisfied with their con
dition, and if can Judge from the appearance ol
their country and tho prosperous condition of the
people, thiuk they have made a dangood hi
ofit by staying in the Union, anl,it would have
j been a dam sight better if we had all remained
contenicd with ourcondition and not made a dan
set of fools Of ourselves
am afraid we alc in q trap here, and the hal
will never get out. think it was II dam bad
thing in coming over here ; bat we were forced
ina manner, as wo>were nearly starved out and
this is a land Of milk and hnney-evcrything il
abundance. | tell you Jim, we live high {,
what We used to do in the Old Dominion. w
, now get salt Enough on our meat, which make,
il eat dam sight better than We have been usct
to, Jim, burn this letter. or 1t may fall into III,
hands Of some officers, and if ours get hold of j
may catch hell right soon hear your regi
ment has heen ordered to report 10 Gtn. Smith
in Kentucky Let 20 know if it is SO wisl
you were with us, us we inteud 10 20 iu shurll!
Z and give.the Yankees hell zt,. n
= Your il!enJ, WI, GREEN"