Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-07-22
LErrER FROa THE sIxrEENTH.
CAnr HuAa CoaINrn, Miss, [
JAY 1eth, 1852

/ Jsly leth, 1859
FRrxxD DsoK.--I now cit down to
write to You again. am not very we'll
at this time, As ny wounds are oil bro
ken out again, and it keeps me down. l
have not been on duty since left to
amount to anything, nor will I be for
somc time, unless | gain great deal
faster. Now it is drill call, and must
90 aud call the boys for drill. and then
will come and finish. We have q
great many calls to attend to. The first
in the morning is revilIe at daybreak,
the next il breakfast call, the next ia
tigue call, and so on throughout the
day. Our camp is in fine place, and
very healthy, being on hill. To-day
it is awful hot, the Thermometer being
los degrees 10 the shade, yesterday at
lO2, and it averages about the same the
week through. The evenings are very
cool and nice, but the nights are very
cold, as we lay With two or three blank
cts on us. We have been sleeping out
Of doors altogether, but DOW we have
drawn tents, aud We will be more COM
Portable, providing the "grey-backs"
will let us alone. They abound in end
less quantity.
Yesterday we were out aud mustered
goat into the United States service,
and to-day we are feastiOg on goat
pie. We also had some for breakfast,
which was very good.
The market and prices. Potatoes
have been very high, but now sell At
50 bushel, onions FIVE and ten cents a
piece, eggs 80 and 40 cents dozen.
Butter is put up in small cans that hold
about two pounds and half, sell at 81,
figs at the rate of 81 pound. rais,ns
the same, tea 81 % pound, mackerel
25 and 80 cents apiece, pickles two for
nve cents, dried apples ten cents per
pound, peaches Is cents per pound,
green apples 25 cents busbeI. peaches
35 and 40 cents bushel, and all kinds
of articles 10 proper time.
We were in secesh garden looking
At the different kiuds OF flowers, ETC., aud
We saw fig tree which was 10 full bloom,
and full OF green f. 90, which we will have
some of before long if we stay here,
which think we will, as we are pre-.
paring to stop here this summer.
Our sick are getting to be numerous
We have disease called the dropsy,
which is very bad, and most of our boys
are getting it very fast. Some of them
nave feet swelled to an awful extent, and
some look like bursting. We give them
discharges as soon as they commence
We also have a great many that are
homesick, and are walking around say
,og that they have had hard fall, and
that they never will be fit for duty
again, but they are here sometimes three
nontho before they get off, and then
they just fly. We have had some OF
them leave as soon as they got their
,ape's, and may be had to come back
two or three tim "Such is lite.''
| We were out on picket duty last Fri
day, and had good time generally
We got some chickens, green corn
sheep. etc. which We made good nen "4
We also got some secesh clothing, skill
let's, bake ovens, frying pans, teakettles
etc, etc., which will come 10 use. W.
came back to the tune Of Dixey, wh,ct
the secesh do not like to hear. W.
captured few seccsh gentlemen, whicf
we took to Cor;nth, and made them TAKE
he oatn, which one refused to do, ane
sui refuses to do, aud is under guard
His name is Cox, is an old man, anc
very saucy, but we have got him in .
good place.
To>day as was getting my wound.
dressed tile first thing l saw was VIM
| K. Spearing, Will Parker, Col. Hall
tol Chambers brother, Frank Ken
drick and others walking around the
camp looking at matters and things.
l and my fiiend Maple we're promo
ed to CorpoEals last week. We were
privates in the rear rank, but now VT
are the same in the front rank. Ou1
company is very small. We have five
men out on drill. Every morning w
have so many out on fatigue guard, ex
ira duty, detached servic teamster etc.
tnat we are obliged to quit drilling. To
day we will have battalion drill, but onl
men cannot stand 1t, as it is growing
hotter every Minute. The the,mome
ter stood at lo5 degrees when com
menced this letter, but now it stands a,
100 degrees. We can hardly stand on,
a minute, and there are Indications of d
heavy storm.
When | wrote you last we were all
turned upside down, getting ready for
Richmond. We were ready to start 10
a few hours, but We are still here, and
no signs OF getting off this sumner,
| We heard heavy cannonading on our
left last evening, but we expect they
heard good news from Mcclellan.
hope it is SO. We also hear that we are
70 be in forty different places at Que
time, but think we are done fighting,
aud our Colonel is letting us rest.
Our dress parade does not look like il
did at Camp Mcclellan. We were on,
up there with nine hundred and fifteen.
but now we turn out with two hundred
AID twenty eight, which shows that the
sixteenth Is allve. We hear that W..
are to be filed up to eighty men, aud
then we can make show again.
Our living Is chiefly hard crackers and
bacon. We get very little beef now, but