Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-08-01
From the Free Press.
The yermonters ut New Orleans.

Orleans, headed Paying their way,
furnishes testimony that the 9TH Vermont
regiment have carried South with them
into the war, the zeal and industry with
which they prosecuted their business af-
fairs among the Green Mountains This
is the record and Uncle Sam will please
note that he has no better or more profit
able workmen in his immense gang:
ga small detachment of the 9TH Yer
mont took possession of Fort Pike on May
9TH, when they found the fort dismantled
and robbed of everything movable, the
guns dismounted and spiked, and all the
buildings either torn down or burned.
During the two months they have garri-
soned the fort, they have removed the
spikes from all the guns, mounted them
as far as they had the carriages, cleaned
up the rubbish, retaken large quantities
of the ordnance, quartermaster and comm
issary stores stolen during the interreg-
mum, and captured any number of small
boats, on launch, one schooner, one steam
pile driver, the steamer J. Morgan Brown,
and were a party to the capture of the
steamer Gray Cloud. These two steam
ers are valued at $50, 900 each, and are
now used by Government as transports.
The capture of the J. Morgan Brown
had somewhat of the "daoaU7a east" enter
prise and novelty which characterized the
movements of the Green Mountain boys
under old Ethan. The steamer being in
the service of the Confederates, was stow
ed away by it's owners seven miles up
narrow, crooked bayou of Pearl river, hid
den by overhanging trees, and forty miles
from Fort Pike. Some cloudy intima-
tons of her whereabouts being obtained
from contrabands, an expedition of thirty
men in five small boats, under the joint
command of Lieuts. Parker and Dickinson,
was fitted out to search the wilderness.
They stealthily passed the guerilla pick
cts at Pennington and the Jackson plant
alton, and rowed, between sunset and
sunrise, a distance which, with the oppos-
ing current, would make over fifty miles,
found the skulker and took it without a
chance for fight, as the picket guard
Shcdadelled at their approach. They how
ever, had the precaution to remove a small
piece of the machinery which was indis-
pensable to steam locomotion, and so this
little band was driven to desecrate the
sacred soil of Mississippi, by performing
a quantum of free labor within her limits.
Accordingly, by dint of getting out
lines, rowing and polling, they dragged
her safely out and brought her to Fort
Pike in just 48 hours. They did not shun
the pickcts so obsequiously on their re-
turn but instead of this Lieut.. Dickinson
went ashore at the jackson plantation
with a small squad, drove in the pickets,
and brought away one of their hats with
a Yankee bullet hole through it, two Sc
cession flags and q quantity of the furni-
ture belonging to the boat secreted there.
He also took on the same scout 5000
worth of rope and hose belonging to the
secesh gunboat Bienville. The Govern
ment will doubtless have plenty of use
for this here.
They have lost only one man in all
these transactions, though they have had
two or three skirmishes. At one time
twenty-five men, under Lieuts. Thrall and
Dickinson, were attacked by a mounted
guerrilla force of 1856 men, which
was repulsed with the loss Of three
men and four horses. The Vermont boys
had single six FOUNDER gun, but no fixed
ammunition, SO they improvised few
charges of canister by tying up twenty
two-ounce bullets in a canvas bag and fir
ing away in true underbrush style IN
der cover of this fire they landed and took
away a schooner tied up at the wharf and
towed it TO the feet. Lieut.. Dickinson and
one of his company were cut off by the
sudden charge of the cavalry, but escaped
uninjured by swimming to pirogue and
padding down to the steamer with their
hands, exposed all tho way to their fire.
Their latest enterprise is in taking I'D