Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-08-01
CAMP NEAR HARRISON LANDING,
July l6, 1862.

S We are now fairly settled
down in camp and have only the regular
routine of camp duties to perform, only
that the guards are large and so come Of
ten upon us. A soldier has to 60 on home
or picket guard as often as once in days,
besides some fatigue duty. Our drums
and bands give the regular calls and if
VIC were to have a couple of drills per
day added, it would seem much like old
Camp Griffin. The weather is too warm
for drilling to any great extent, and as
yet VIC have not had any of it to do.
Many of our men feel weak and sick after
our retreat and its fatigues, but on the
whole our regiment is pretty healthy.
The 9TH and 9th regiments are much
reduced in strength and numbers and
many of their officers, particularly in the
9TH, have sent in their designations.
| have seen the Hyde Park boys in the
Sd Rcgt. lately. saw Willie Woodbury.
yesterday he is we'll as was all the rest
but VIM. Crowcll, who is somewhat worn
down by fatigue and exposure, but nothing
only what will be cured by rest and time.
Philo was we'll the last time | saw him.
was talking with Henry Town this
morning he is well. Lieut.. j. P. Saw
yer is sick. He was threatened with fe-
yer, but | think the doctor will manage
to break it up he looked better last
night.
Our camp is on one Of the largest and old
est plantations in the country. 1t is we'll
fenced and tastefully cultivated. There
was should guess, about 1000 acres Of
as splendid wheat as | ever saw, all ripe
and partly harvested, when we came here.
There was 600 or 500 acres of clover be-
sides 3 cornfelds, each of about 200 acres,
with oats, &C., &c. The crops all looked
splendid and had been we'll managed
but now destruction marks where they
had been. On the plantation and just in
front of our regiment is a little bricl,
church, ono of the first built OH this con
tinent the material of which was i'm
ported from England. 1t is we'll shaded
by lofty oaks, and although it is said tc
have stood more than century and {
half the hard dark colored brick look al
if they had been placed there within thu
last 25 years. The woodwork and arch
ing around the windows has been remod
eled lately The inside is finished il
the richest style, and is cushioned ant
carpeted in the most elegant manner
The first day that we camped here thu
soldiers had chance to 60 in and lool
it over. Since then there has been I;
guard on it. This plantation is eithel
attached to some other or else it mus
have been carried on under the charge o
an overseer. There is no splendid hous
on it, denoting the home of the southern
planter. There was large storehous
where all manner of tools were kept, anC
more splendid aud costly looking lot o
farming tools | never saw. Everythin!
from the hoe to a reaping machine was t
be found, and | was much surprised t.
find that they were nearly all of south
orn manufacture. There we're or nea
little houses for the domestics to live in
but they, along with the storchouse ant
shades around them, have beer torn to tn
ground to give range for our gunboats t
fire if they should again be called int
play on this ground. oo9