New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-07-28
beautiful breeze almost every morning and evening"
and the army in good health and the very best con-
dition. ID. J. K.
A Live Colonel Eoolser's Generaiship-
Scrrvy in the Army.
From Our Special Correspondent.
CAM YEAR HARRIsos's LAND &C.
ELIlnr nrriI Inl.


CAMP vEAR HARRIsos's LAYplxa.(
Friday morning July x, 1862
I dined with Colonel yesterday. As we drew
camp-stools to the hard bread-box which served
table, be remarked, d" Had You been here an hour
tomatoes. cucumbcrs and blackberries." "Do you
find it possible to procure such luxuries :" said |.
"My cook. that black fellow there, attends to MI
that. Anything Of the sort that can be had at the
Landing, no matter how fabulous the price, he gets
for Inc. He actually foraged two or three miles be-
You'd the lines night before last, and brought in
load OF apricots and blackbenies." 1T must be
handy 10 have him in tie family remarked as ]
admired the brawny black arm just then stretched
across the table beneath my eyes. "Yes, he 10
worth gold; | shall keep him with me while the
war lasts unless have chance to send him
to nv vile. He wonid fight for me any minute.
"Where did you pick him upl' About eight
months ago, when we were on the Potomac, he came
into my camp-brougnt some valuable inormatlon
At, aett from Richmond. which By the way WIS dir
credited, and old Us no good. i liked hls looks,
and appropriated him. You should zee with wost
chagrin and discomfort he watches me- turn over to
my sick in the hospital a nice batch OF rariies he
has brought me at inl,ite trouble. Lately he has
got into habit OF hiding away part, and tnen eur
pisiug my table with Il, when | think II has all
gone TO the hospital-ste@aTd."
That was what had become Of the vegetables Lost
from my dinner by my late arfival-they had been
turned over to the no, iiial steward.
wonder Sow many such Colonies there are-ofi-
GERS who scratch Their own ralatrs ana rasp their
own throats with iard-ack, in order that REX PHI
Yates NAV be blessed with the softer articles
This Colonel IL . model solder well as model
man. " You I'll Lave 100 men ht for duty You
Lave been fortunate" Well. had over | 300 10
begia with. have lost only about 10 In battle. |
What has become OF the Others l scarcely Know |
they melted away IN spite OF me- Bat, thcr,
Colonel, those yon have left ire veterans, worth,
NJ on a battlefield. two such regiments as yon
brought upon the Peninsula" / yentured to say,
speaking Il iiule trumpnanlly, expecting credi,
for n discriminating re rark. Not lit OF IT. The
Colonel hit back SHARPLY, NO, SIR. Yon re ms
taken-you re mistaken! These are good men. i
will put them III comparison with any IN tie army,
but tell you, I'd rather 20 into battle with 3Jp
sueh men as they were at Yorktown, than with the
200 could lead out to-day. Then they were iIesh,
full of riBl III for bayoEet charge, fit TO storm
works. over them or through them - Their
very momentum would have carried them
through stone walls. Now they wonld stand
all dav aid be shot at; more than that,
believe they are anxious for another set-to with
the rnscals. but ST. they are not capable Of the
fresh-rushng valor that throbbed all through them
four months Physically, they are not capable,
and their hope deferred has sickeDed their first holy
country bsttle-feds witch, used, would have fin
shrd this war long ago. One clean victory, every
advantage Of which shall be pushed, would reIghl
that sane fire, aud, except in Phy'iqne, they wond
be like themselves IN those better days.
Tie Colonel roee and lighted cigar. lie lad
,poken vehemen,ly, will emphasis and gessicuIs I,
ton, aud now lapsed into guieter mood, saying
that he seldom talked ia such strait.
The Conversation fell into ano her channel
q" The neat,st affair ! have seen in thi. war was
- H.. AN.s an ehA .tt.e.f
road" he Incidentally remarked: Hooker is the
bandsome., officer IN the army, said /. Hand. |
soonest You have cool way Of damning with faint
praise rsy be is the best Divison General 10 this
army. saw that affair OF which was speaking |
although NV regiment war not engaged. Just as l
rode 10 10 Hooker-he was sitting "a white horse
in perfect storm Of bullets-an officer asked him.
How goes the day 7 Cool NJ the w hite Mountains,
and just about inmutabe, speaking very quietly,
like your confident, wsll-posed man who dossnt
need TO buster he said, sly hand IN all trunps;
swung that left bower meaning Sicklesl, aud have
Just played the king Indicating some regiments dis
app, arng in the woods. The ace bold back for
,6c last trict. happen to know the right bower is
not out = Hooker plays the game OF war as well as
they do euchre ON Mississippi steamboats,
~ Yes, Richaroson loves u fight. Perhaps you
don know that he has been relieved from his CON-
mani for going north without lcavei think he II
over estimated us q General 4 grows naturally out
of admiration for bis splendid perronal bravery"
For Two hours DID this Colonel thus give Ills opin.
ions Of men and things. with such free criticism as
prccludes ue from giving his name.
Lsrge quantities Of suiphate o. iron ore being dis
tribute ed throughout the army TO be used as disin-
feet ant The army is really Gro Sded; 40 much 10,
that every BIT Of Neutral ground between adjacent
can ps becomes unless extreme care be used very
ces,pool Of abominstions with as many distinct
odors a. Coleridge credits to the City Of Cologne.
The hospitals have a, length been provided with
soft bread and half rstons Of several kinds OF vego-
tables. The latter were needed as hntsco.bntics,
scuryy having appeared in all its nnumeratle forms.
II would be good thing If the conmoner vegeta.
bles-onions. tomatoes, cabbage-could be provided
for the whole army. Certainly they would be hs
effective in staying seorbuic tendencies as In curing
chronic cases.
What is to be done with the Army OF the Poto-
mac? G. A'P'