Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1862-02-07
From the Cavalry Regiment.
CAMP HARRIS,
NNM II y TNINI1'
ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 28, 1862.

to you, as | did to many others, many
more than | have had time to write TO.
But | have not forgotten my promise to
you or any one Of the thoughtful friends
| have left behind; and nothing gives
me more pleasure (and speak the feel
ings of every soldier) than to hear from
home, if but word. Anything we hear,
however trihnc, is commented upon and
talked about with much interest. | have
seen several Of your papers, the Stand
ard, lately, and not till lately or since we
came to this caulp, and it seemed like an
old friend, as everything connected with
it many of us are familiar with. | re-
ceived the paper you sent me dated the
l7tb, and please accept my thanks for
the same. | don't suppose that | can
write anything new or very interesting
at this late day, unless it is with you as
it is with us-anylhing that we hear from
friends when separated under such cir
cumstances, is interesting. 1t is pretty
dry place here for news now. The same
dull routine of duty from day to day gets
to be an old story after while. Most OF
our time since we have been here has
been employed in fitting up our camp for
winter. Not so much but we could have
done it in a very short time, but the great
difficulty has been in getting lumber and
stuff to work with. Our lumber is pine,
and is shipped as near TO US as possible
distance of two miles-and then is
drawn to our camp by the baggage wag-
ons, Our stables are nearly completed
now. Our time when not employed on
the stables, or in fitting up our camp, or
other duty, is spent in drilling. AT half
past six in the morning the chief bugler
sounds the roll call, or the call for the
assembly of the buglers, and is immedi-
ately answered by the company buglers
in each street, They then proceed to the
main street near the center Of the camp,
and in ten minutes the revilee sounds.
Every man must turn out and answer to
his name, or be accounted for, Then
comes the breakfast call. Sufficient time
allowed to eat, and the call is sounded to
turn out and groom our horses. Then a
call to fced--then drill, recall from drill,
water call, guard mounting, and at noon
another roll call-division drill again,
recall, water call and feed, retreat at ten
minutes before shutdown when the roll is
again called, and then supper. AT eight
in the evening, we must turn out, fair or
foul, to roll call Anime the taps sound,
which mean lights out. SO you see ev-
erything is done TO the sound Of the bu-
gle. The buglers have organized a band,
so that now we have band music to march
by when we go out on dress parade,
which generally comes three or four times
week though sometimes not 50 often.
The dress parade hour is ten minutes aft
er retreat. We are marched out and
formed IN solid body, and general or
derS OF the army brigade ana regiment
read 10 U.S. IneSe exercises repeater
from day 10 Gay become an ola story 10
Us, and can now better understand the
meaning OF the term, "Splieing tor
fight Confined as we are, almost any
thing for change IS hailed with delight
by most OF the soldiers. We are allow
ed to 90 anywhere in the brigade, which
consists now Of two regiments-tae Ira
Harris Guards, or New York 9th, and
ours--encamped near together without
a pass. The brigade is surrounded by a
chain OF mounted sentineIS. In TACT,
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