Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1862-01-16
FROM COL. TURNER'S REGIMENT.
NO. xxvIII.
Written for The Fayetteville Observer.
CAvp ErSurp Va

DEAR SlR-Throueh the col
umns of your most excellent pa
per, 1 shall attempt to communi-
cate to your numerous readers, to-
some of whom it may be interest
ing, some of the particulars con-
corning us. The health of the
regiment is miraculously good at
present, and especially SO in this
company (k.) We have but one
or two men that are not able for
all the duties which are incum-
bent upon soldier, and there are
very few in the whole Regiment
but what are ready for service at
any and all times. We have had
very agreeable weather thus far,
yet we have had some very cold
but dry weather There has been
some snow here, and it lay Oh the
ground two or three days. But
when such weather as that comes
we have nothing to do but get
wood, (Which is tolerable bad
job, you would infer, it being at
some distance from camps, as We
have been at this place three
months and consequently have
used all the timber Immediately
around, and make fires, cook, eat,
and be merry. Having good CON-
Portable houses to live In, and
chairs with three legs to sit upon,
we enjoy ourselves as well as
though we were in kings courts.
When night spreads her dark man
tie over terra firma, and the howl
ing winds come sweeping along
through the distant pine tops,
) las some such winds we have had)
then we build us a large fire in oui
snug little huts,. and with it, III
conjunction with the quantity of
good and comfortable clothing
which the good people of Old Lin
coin have furnished us, we cal
bid defiance to the bowling ele
ments, and say sweep on, We wild
winds, we shall rest here and takt
our sweet sleep in our elegant man
sions. BY such upbraiding some
perchance may think that we ha(
rather stay here than be at home
But this is not so; we all had rath
Ter be at home and enjoy all its priv
iileges and comforts, and every
thing which makes home near ant
dear to us. But in such times az
are now before the eountry,g wheI
the vandals of the north, led OF
by the usurpers at Washington are
attempting TO invade our lovely
South, lay. waste all our proper
ty, subjugate us, make us become
their vassals, and the mean
est of all, to degrade our fair wo
men to the lowest depths of deg
relation, and equalize them witt
the black faced, fat nosed Afri
can, who / ask in the name of
Justice and right, would disdair
living not only in such houses al
we live in, but under the nakeG
canopy of the great and blue con
cave to repel the mighty blow anc
turn aside the unnatural invasion
which is now threatening ON
beautiful land of Dixie. The
man, whose patriotism is so feeble
and whose courage so faint that
he cannot leave home under any
and all circumstances and subject
himself to the hardships of camp
life in this great crisis, nor will
subscribe to help those that are
gone, is not worthy the appellatior
Iof Southern. Nor should he be
treated and respected as SUCH
But it is useless for me to write
such as this, for | presume there
are none who read your. paper that
would dare think of SO doing
much more doing the thing itself
But there are those in our Confed.
eracy that would and do so act
1 Although we are comfortably quar-
tered here there is a probability of
us being moved to some other
] point, as we have been assigned
! to another brigade. 1 hope this
will not be done; this point has te
! be guarded as well as any other,
rand as we have up our winter