The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-12
(Our War Correspondence
From the Fifth Vermont Regiment.
CAMP WINFIELD SCOTT, May 5

From Lu6 & I'LL vClIuout A"CE AAANAA"
CAMP WINFIELD SCOTT, May 5.
Mr.. WILLARD Day is JUS, dawnlng, while
the troops ui TINS Brigade, aud how many more
| cannot say, are packing knAps Icxs and ratlons'
agreeable to an order received before daybreak to
be ready to march at moments notice. 10
march, and while writing these half dozen lines
| have already been asked twenty times, where
are we going to ? /, of course, know as little,
If not less, about the order and the march than
the inquirlng soldier, and the cross and lmpa-
tient response of "a man in bad humor was the
only answer given, - do n know and do t
care.'' OF course do n care, and 50 long AZ
a soldier is in camp before an enemy, ii he has
enough to eat, he cares but little about anything
else. | reckon, however, that the order Is
founded upon the supposlion that the enemy Is
evacuatlng-that is highly finished, Anglo
French expression for the more modern and for
chile English lingo OF - skedaddling.' Some
New York " special" | believe, :" koned that
Erase" as A. W ard would remark, and it is Ger
,ainly the best have ever heard used in the
conversation of soldiers conversation, by the
by, that would be considered very ornate in the
polite circles of home.
The order may, however, be for another
purpose. Perhaps Burnside has asked for re-en
lorcements if 50, the Vermont troops are the
very men he would cali for. hope he has, for
it certainly does not take many weeks for
oHe to tire of the every day life OF u siege, es
peclally IN such swamps as are found upon this
historic peninsula. - Historic there is con-
siderable flourish and rhetoric about that word,
but you would be troubled to find soldiers that
thought much about 1t. Everything is +" hstor-
&C. with them that is dirty, greasy and good to
aa 6rpk Smokn and Wv { biut,ri, -
with them is 50 payday and signs of peace.
Day before yesterday, - | had the distin-
gulshed honor - to be introduced to one of the
Gotham's" Specials IS reliable correspond
ent OF the Associated Press, or some other
press that has associated or collected great deal
OF buncOmbe fer poilt cins and sensation tor
Generals. lie was a character, | suppose, aud
was nota little amus;dat his fancy wire pulling
and torce-pumping for items. HIS business was
certainly dull. The army was doing nothing,
except IN working forces IN positions 100 exposed
for any extensive observations and, JUST think Of
it ! that poor ,eliOw had job on BIS hands that
would have tried the patience Of ordinary men rs
much poor ParsJn Beechers was tested when
he lost his boots N Buffalo tavern. He mad
two long Letters to write THAI nlght-onl thuk
OF 1t two long letters, war letters at shat, and
both armies LYING stil!-no hghting, aad no
Observation-Disclosures Sen-utlOn. Poor fellow |
pitlcd HIM, and with some careless item that |
knew he would manufacture into something
more authentic than | could, | assisted hi.il, re-
marking as he lett that he must never abandon
the idea that this was IL great country, and that
he was monarch Of all he su yeyod, II he did not
look over the Warwick Greek. Should | ever
meet hiM again, ! will give him some more
news, more reliable.
There is something thickenng up in these
parts among superiors-l do Mt know but that
you u'lgnt call 1t IL nuss. 1t certainly is not
anything very friendly or courteous, and looks
as If somebody s good name was getting bruised.
Well, let it thicken, who cares.
Is ii possible than | mad. mistake abJut
that g. plank road > project? Ii so. certainly
viii make the onieade honorable, bui shall write
no essay however much you may tla,ter.-
Somehow or another had got he idea that the
Freeman, or some OTHER Vermont journal, was
trying to tell US that the noise about mpassable
roads was only another excuse for some OF that
/" mastery inactivity that We have heard 30
much about, and that in these swamps or any
where else, good plank roads could be construct
ed for the passage Of field or siege artillery. |
am pleased to learn that was mistaken, Tor no
General, unless 1t was Greeley, would ever think
Of such thing In these swamps. So much for
that ,--and Us have no more time before tha
mail closes for " additional news" you must
wait on me till another time.
Yours, &C., SEE SEE. Ess.