Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1862-01-28
(our War Corr:sPondebce}
From the Third Vermont Regiment.
OrHELLo.
Is THE MUD .r"sANr GRIFFIN, Va f,
Jan. 70, iob2

0ail ~ low
EplToR FREEMAN An absence Of two or three
weeks from camp is my excuse for not writing
to YOU for that length u time or more, aud u
certainty that your readers would no, suffer by
my reglect, has kept ny mind easy on the sub
iect, or | would have msle some of the knights
Of the quill my subst'ut 90 keep you posted on
what tnev guess is ths. .fau of the campaign,
I'D Il, s.nasion osS.- az ,he various ex-
- - 'fssr. : z. .she'lted odt ~--'--. ~,
general enemy. The last mt not least thing OF
tha, kind, that has kept A. immense nation on
the gus rire for space tack, has finally sailed
with all the pomp and Circumstance oi huutIrg
fcnnOus aui slrly cannon, destined, had
hoped, % cut ol the ,.oye line OF uui-lll AZ
Peter>bGrgh, acting IN conjunction with Gen.
Buell. IN Kentucky, who would make his army
hridgc-buruCrs On the EiS tennessee railroad.
and thus have eat of t.s rebels no Manassas
rom their already scanty sapply OF citables.-
Bat having heard, rid. Fortress Monroe. thlt
the expedition was seeb passing llaster4s lnlet,
have IN vain examined the map for >omc bar
rem island Mt d safe distance from land. on which
40 one couId live Us the 4, ,stnatiun OF tAs great
undertaking, that 1t may be- bruited abroad that
/ IT, (the island. was jaktn without the loss of
a man, and the ,ubordmAtes can drill th.ir men.
while the leaders return to New York to uar.
take OF an extra dinner they have earned 10y the
great victory. IL never occurred to me why
great statesmen and lawyers were made generals
IN our army until lately but intense light will
at last illumine the muddiesI pool, and Ike a
streak of daylight through u dirty window. It
has burst upon my mind. ltis to make speeches
at public dinners, when they get back IRON an
expedition.
Failing to find spot laid down on the map
of small enough importance as destination for
the Burnside fleet, | finally arrived ut the con-
cluson that 1t must he the Great lsaals There
is in SautLwcsierly direction from Key West
a large black rock, or mass OF rocks OF that
name, well remembered by me, Tor once, when
a boy before the mast, wild gale came up, each
wave higher and stronger than the last. thump.
i ing our trembling ship until her seuppers sucked
up the Iroth to the leeward, and the ynid arms
dragged in the tops OF the waves rhe wind
screamed through the ropes and the water holled
like pot ali around. The gale caught the
hosely lured sails and burst them 10 ribbons
tearing them clear from the yards, and the
scared sailors chung 20 the nearest rOpes, when
but a few lcct TO the Toward the black ton of
The Great ls,,acs showed itself, surrounded with
white foam. like the bald crown of Uncle Ned,
who had no wool on the top OF his head, &C..
(you. no doubt, rcollect tho remainder OF the
poem.) But single tathom was there between
us ana the kissing foam. lashing itself to mad
ness on the eyer-washed rock (Fur the remain
der OF this intensely interesting narrative, see
New York ledger.) Should Gen. Burnside take
that stronghold and occupy IT, supper, or may
be dinner might be added 10 the ovation await
ing the glory-crowned vic;or Its strategic i'm
/ no,tance could not be Oyer-estlmated Again.
should he capture 1t and sink 1t in the mouth of
the Mississippi, forces the water TO low back
anon themselves drown out New Orleans, Nat
chez. Memphis aud Columbus, llolIlns' iron ram
smash itself upon It, AID Gen. jim Lane nuke
the inhabitants Of that country nil Union men,
the backbone aud one arm OF secession would be