Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-10-31
FROM THE ELEVENTH REGIMENT.

FROM THE ELEVENTH REGIMENT.
The follos'isg letter, which we copy
From taa Orleans independent Standard,
was written by Ellery H. Webster, a
young man who helped us to give to the
public the first numbers of the Newsdeal-
or, and who had before and has since
been employed in the Standard Office.
Captain Rice is pretty generally known
as q teacher of band music. He was the
leader of the band that went out with the
5th On being disch frQm that ser
vice he was .saz.t to GlAcans county to re-
,ordit company for tic |, and was chos-
zen captain.
DEAR Boss'i-Sincc / wrote you before,
we the "Allen Guards" have shifted our
location from Fort Lincoln i't Bunker
Hill, about two miles northwest, between
Forts Saratoga and Taunton. The regi-
ment has been divided into seven pagts,
changed from infantry to heavy artillery,
and stationed one or two companies IN a
place, on the line of forts on this, &hc
eastern side,of Washington City. Fort
Bunker HiH is situated on a beautifully
elevated rise Of ground, and affords a
splendid view of the surrounding hills,
swamps and patches of fallen trees, fell
criss eros shape, or any way to get them
out of rangc,of the cannon in the forts,
for it may be necessary some day to use
d them to play "shoot at target" on the side
hill beyond, but trust for no other pur-
pose in this war. For soon this black
rebclliou reptile, which hos so lops been
curling rouQd the liberty pole, on which
hangs our proud banner, will receive a
d terrible stab between the ribs with a bay
onct tempered by the fires of our ,Nortt
ern lights, which will sepd him and his
f rotten and recognized governmcn
off the American platform into the " las
!, ditch"of misery. !Ruts[ was going to tel
) you something about Fort Bunker Hill.
! The fort is now in command of Go. o
the 10th Pennsylvania regiment. Blu
, they have had orders to take up their bee
and walk" to some other fort, which vii
leave the whole concern in the command
Of Capt. Rice 1t is some 200 feet il
length and 70 wide; has ajeht &,poppi
guns, one 24-palpdN,, ,one ihoRiAer, anc
c two small mortars. From its walls cal
!. he seen tlc flags efforts Lincoln, Sarato
ga, SleInmer and Taunton. tits o strongl,
built fort and has a very commanding po
sition against any and everything except
' ing feas, which climb in, in some unseel
i. and secluded spot, and get into the bomb
proof and arc an everlasting nuisance t,
G sleep there, the hours they do not wall
their beat. The bite however, is so smal
that we do not feel the effects of it ,rnti
c next day, when q nutmeg crater wQu.l b
a very handy thing for the bays to.saratcl
). thepselvoe Eith. Taunton isa large
b.
Q fat, with seventeen guns; two 24-poun'
rifed parroS, and four l0-pound rife
{ brass pieces, the rest being 28-poun
smooth bores
. Day before yesterday, just at dark
h Capt. Rice had orders to report the mex
day at o'clock, at Fort Massachusetts
with SO men, armed and equipped, an
1 with knapsacks and tents, WLqge W
v we're going from there, or what we wer
;. going to do was secret to us. The mex
!. day at /, according to order, we startct
by this time camp srories were numarou'
0 we were going to making roads, We wer
0 going to work on fort going to diggin
: rxiAc-pitc going to Harper's Ferry, an
were going to reinforce Mcclellan. Fac
jnan had his own stoGy,to toll.
When we got along.to Fort lsatqn an
were carclcssly marching at rout step, W
y .saw horseman coming over a hill, som
20 rods ahead The captains quick cy