Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-11-20
The 18th Vermont Regiment.

movements from one camping ground to an
other, up to the time the lie ter bears date
November 9th, The regiment at that date
was encamped two miles south of Alexandria,
and had received orders TO go into winter quar-
tiers there, for which purpose they We're about
to construct log houses, Our correspondents
account of the fare and accommodations of the
regiment at New York, on its transit through
that city, corroborates all the other accounts
we have received or seen. He says the regi-
ment was "misused in regard to its refresh
ments and had no accommodations whatever.
We gave no cheers, for our treatment was not
such as to demand them" Where was our
State agent all this time p From New York
the regiment proceeded BY boat to Port Mon
mouth, getting aground in the Strait and being
detained about two hours thereby and from
Port Monmouth to Camden by railroad in the
night, suffering from want of fires in the cars.
At Philadelphia their treatment was so kind
and generous as to call forth repeated cheers
and 'God bless you's" from the regiment.
Here we pause long enough to say our Leg
lature has done what will meet the hearty COM
mendation of our volunteers as well as of their
relatives and friends-the people of Vermont
| in passing a resolution of thanks to the city
ofBrotherly Love, for its noble and generous
treatment of the soldiers who pass through it
| to the seat of war.
At Baltimore the regiment passed through
the same street in which the Massachusetts
soldiers were mobbed ,but owing to the change
which has been wrought in that city since the
| commencement of the rebellion, the l4th Yer
mont, says our correspondent, "met with only
cheers and flags" From Baltimore they pro-
ceeded the same night to Washington, arriv-
ing about noon on Saturday and thence march
ing about nine miles to Arlington Heights
| There they remained about three days, expos
| ed a portion of the time, from want of proper
tents, to rain and wind; when they were order
ed to Capitol Hill, about ten miles
distant, on the Maryland side of the
Potomac, where the other Vermont regiments
were stationed and where they received better
tents. On the same night Of their arrival they
were ordered to march again, this time TO
Camp Seward, Arlington Heights, Va, about
a mile from Camp Chase, The tive Vermont
regiments were ordered there at the same time.
After five days sojoum there, the l4th was Or
| dered to its present camp,
The health of the regiment was GOOD, it not
having lost man at the time our correspon-
dent wrote. The muskets with which the reg
have been exchanged, and the regiment was
doing picket duty al the date of the letter.
The 18th, 18th, 18th and 10th Vermont regi-
ments were encamped near them. Snow had
fallen there to the depth of four inches, and
the weather had been cold.
81 do not think, >" concludes our correspon-
dent, "there is any danger of the enemy COM
ing near US at present, but whenever we do
meet them, we consider ourselves yeadyn
GEN. MCCLELLAN'S CAsE.-The gossip of
newspaper and Washington correspondents,
says the Springfield Republican, an earnest
supporter OF Mcclellan, as to the removal of
Gen. Mcclellan is for the most part false and
Chronicle, Col. Forney's paper, understood to
be authorized by the war department, has SEINE
real significance. Col, Forney says;
"The order by which Major General Geo.
B. Mcclellan has been relieved from the CON
mand of the army of the Potomac, was the
part Of oar highest military authorities, and
mus nus: be regarded 'ureIy as military ques-
ton. The necessity Ton "''''e operations IN
Virginia had become so impe,- g., 'I ;ro,,n no'
reasons which appeared conclusive. this ''''Pot
tant change was made. These reasons W.
doubtless be made public, should the intere SITS
of the country demand their disclosure am
when they are disclosed, while nothing will
appear that can effect the loyalty of General
Mcclellan, Or his capacity for organizing and
equipping great army for the field, all his
honest friends will admit that when the Presi
dent sanctioned the recommendations of his
immediate military advisers, he did so from
the sincerest desire that the war might be pros
ecuted with renewed vigor, and our fellow citi-
zens in the field rescued from the horrors of
another winter campaign. 1t would be well
therefore, for such as may be disposed to cavil
at this important decision, to wait the progress
Of events before rushing into angry declama-
ton. They need not be told that the chief
magistrate has not been induced to approve
this change in the command of the army of the
Potomac, either by a want of personal regard
for the young general, or by partizan pressure,
for he has displayed the most devoted friend
ship for that officer from the first, and has
sternly refused to be controlled by such parti-
,an on,hla;naitions A have ciamored for his re-