Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-03-07

ed, or dead men. The inhabitants had fed.
Some OF our soldiers were sacking il com
srary 10 express orders. l saw plates.
knives and forks, and articles Of fine female
wearing apparel on the floor, bloody rags
were everywhere, ana often pieces of raw
human flesh cut away by The surgeons, and
you could mol open door without hearing
groans. mater how grand or how low,
how retired or how public the house might
be, il gas all the same. Thunder and light
ming, cholera or other pestience, or the
most awful earthquake, could not have
caused such scene Of horror.
On every hand were the evidences of
poverty Their two-whceled ambulances
were carts covered with white cotton cloth
and in every branch in which our army is
supplied with permanent and scientific Ak
lures, theirs are supplied with temporary
and barely sufficient ones. We have over
rated their powers.
The letters found on their dead soldiers
turn our ideas into another channel. They
are from fathers, sisters, and wives-most-
ly from the latter. The wife writes about
home; she sends cakes, pies and clothing !;
almost every one SO many twists of tobac-
co; one sends appes--the largest one is
from the wife, the next in size from the old
est child, and so on to the youngest one.
Some tell how the work goes on that 10
and Tom Slaves are drawing rails or grub
bing, but it has rained so much they could
do little. They have got so many pounds
of sugar from Memphis or they are using
rye instead of coffee, and they like it just
as we'll. One wants shoes for Andy, and
she sends the measure. have it before
me now. Alas, for Andy's shoes; and the
pair he sent her fit her, and she thanks him
for them. One wants her husband to take
care of his health, and to keep himself sup
piled with good warm socks. They relate
the news of neighborhoods and there are
SUNNI sNuilhsiVuS otOilCS. IDuCfl WT1teTS, Il
dare say, lead laughing lives. They sell
dom speak Of the war or its cause, they
seem wholly taken up with domestic cares
Several mention danger in connection with
Cumberland Gap, and that troops are hur-i
ried thither. A father writing to his son,
speaks of the Union men as cowardly
scamps." Every wife shows that she loves
her husband; she prays for him; but all
fear, all are in distress, and lie awake nights
thinking of them. A fear of something
dreadful as likely to happen, runs thrnngh
all their letters, whether written by men or
women. They are plainly written; the
spelling is not often good, but there is no
mistaking the fact that they are warm with
affection-that they have human feelings.
" Show that you have human feelings
Ere you proudly question cnrs'
exclaims the African captive. They have
j shown it.
These letters are addressed to those now
dead. Fifteen thousand other men, to whom
similar letters have been addressed, are
carried away captive. 1t may be long be-
fore their families will learn whether those
they love so well are prisoners in a cold,
Northern cline, or whether they lie in the
cold, undisinguished grave. Many will die
before peace returns. What agonIzing
hearts, what hopes long delayed, will be
found through the length and breadth of
Middle TENNESSEE O Heaven these are
they who have separated families without
sigh-who have sold children, some ofthem
of their own blood, to 90 to the plains of
Texas, fathers TO the rice swamps of the
Carolinas, and mothers to the cotton fields
of Mississippi and Alabama.
Shortly after Buchanan was elected, and
Fremont was defeated, there was an alleged
insurrection among the slaves in the Ten
nessee Iron Works. These iron works are
around this very Doverl 1t is not known
how many slaves were hung, but it Is known,
and well known, that many who were inno-
cent were hung, and that some were shot
without investigation or trial. Has their
blood, crying to heaven the las. five years.
and have the silent, agonizing prayers of
parents torn from their children, and hus-
bands from their wives, for ten times as
many years, at last been heard
/ would not for my life say one word
which should lead the reader to think that
| exult over fallen foe.
A little girl, after being out some time
trying to ensnare the little fishes in neigh
boring stream with crooked pin and a
thread line, came running into the house,