Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-11-21
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quickly finish this war, and get back
home sometime in the course of an age.
But their patriotism is fast playing out,
as they lay here on the cold damp ground
stern winter fast approaching, and get
nothing done. At least it seems to us
that we are accomplishing less than moth
ing. Here we are with thousands of 9TH
ers, doing nothing, costing the government
piles of money, if We ever get our pay, yet
it is ever and anon that identical same
worn out everlasting old tune: dig, dig
dig, pick, pick, pick, and go on inspect
ion. As regular as the same old sun that
used to come and go in Vermont, pushes
up over the eastern horizon, and says to
us, good morning fellow soldiers" )" and
sinks to its bed in the crimson and dis
tant West, repeats to us - fare yc-well
old Crawford" just so regular do we re-
sumo our tiresome tune of, dig-a-dig:
Hoe it down and scratch the gravel,
In DiXe's land were bound to travel,
Look away, &c,
"But never mind keep on churning p
Perhaps everything is all right. 10 us
it seems that there must be traitors at
the head Of our mighty, yes, almighty
army else ere this, the very core of
rebellion would have been crushed finer
than hammered birthstone powder. Time
only can tell what the end shall be.
What about the weather? Ever since
we have been here, yes ever since we first
went into camp at Brattleboro it has been
remarkably fine Oct, 26, the day that
the 18th Reg. came in, was the first and
only rainy day we have had. 1t poured
down steadily all day, the night following
suit. From that time until day before
yesterday, Nov. 9TH the sky has been
cloudless, and the weather good as could
be wished for. Then came slight change
The clouds gathered together, blackcned
up, and settled down upon the mountains
brow. the weather grew from warm tc
cool, from cool to colder, and at T o'clock
there could now and then be seen stray
flake of snow, slowly descending to the
earth, which brought forth the usual
Exclamation 1T SHOWS %
Every minute it came thicker and fas
ter until the mills and valleys were com
pletely covered as white as the paper upor
which now write The boys said tina
it looked like Vermont. Methinks i
made them think of their native State
their mothers, the warm fires they useC
to keep Oh the old kitchen hearth, and 0
the cakes pics and numerous other dain
ties which she used to spread upon the
table-cloth. Be this as it may, an
quite sure they did stick their hands deel
in their pantheon pockets, curl up roun'
the fire, stand with their backs to tn
wind, draw in (some of them) their pat
riotic horns, and swear that if they wer
back home again, the government anC
country might 60 to the Legislature
before they would enlist again.
In the afternoon We went out an,
brought in some stoves, which had becl
used by other regiments that winteret
here last winter We sec them up in ou
tents, built up fires; and can now i'll
cold evening. make ourselves comfortable
By the aid of candle, can read, write
and therefore make ourselves useful a
we'll as ornamental. Every tent in ou
Co. now has stove in it,
Some weeks ago man came into camp
hat and coatlcss and complained that h
was attacked by five soldiers who too
them away. Captain Rice took five me
and Immediately brought them in. The
we're from the VT Sd, were in the sevel
days fight before Richmond. They weI
taken prisoners, released on parole, an
been exchanged. They said they wei
going to their Regiment, but were boun
to have their spree out first. They wei
taken to the city the next day, and "
have not heard from them since. 1t
probable that they we're deserters, as the
we're exchanging their uniforms for cit
o zens clothes. Our first Lieutenant, an
!. Sergeant Tuel, formerly from the 3D., re
/ ognized two of them the moment the
! mt their eyes unon them. One told II