The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-04-24
(our War Correspondence
From the Fifth Vermont Regiment.
CAMP NEAR YORKToWN. Anril Ii

made, and the prowess exhibited by the troop
at Madrid and Corinth have no parallel in tn
History OF this or any other War upon the Amer
lean Continent. And the victory achieved
While it may not crush the rebellion in the val
ley OF the Mississippi, must certainly cripple, i
not destroy, tie military organization of treason
Tie highways OF the Federal army. both By
land and water. to the Crescent City and com
mercal centre OF the Confederacy are open. an(
as free from military distractions as the path
ways OF this army TO Richmond will be when
the detences now in front Of us have fallen, and
lheir defenders are killed or subdued. All
glory to Our heroic army of the W est and their
gallant leaders, the chief Of whom is proud to
acknowledge that his army has but given the
finishing touch to the rough plans Of conquest
furnished him by the great chieitain of The war
-General George B. Mcclellan. To make his
name NapoleOnc, and his fame w ASKING tonian,
but one more battle is to be fouoh and won The
armies and their chiefs are ia the field. The
combat has already began. The chivalric sons
and slres OF the sammy South, behind entrench-
ments and hundred mouthed cannon, are to
meet the advancing, attacking, stormine col
umns OF the" mudslll "Yankee nation, with no
other detenses than bare breasts, patriotic
hearts and strong arms. With every advantage
that military science can give to an army of one
hundred thousand men, urged Oh by the strong
est and most encouraging incentive that ever
nerved soldiers arm-the defense Of home
and Its Misunderstanding and bis army
meet there, and will soon give them a historic
page upon the relative manhood of chlvalric
repelious Southernors, ard sturdy, patriotic
Northerne1s. That page written, you have the
Alpha and Omega OF the rcbcllion--pride and
chlyalry its beginning humiliation, poverty
and subsection it's end.
But this is neither here nor there NY papers
last night gave me more information about this
army than | supposed they were allowed to
publish under Mr.. S:anton'S protest. In fact
We learned more from their pages about our
own position and strength as also that Of our
enemy, than we ever knew before. The soldier
IN the teld--a swamp al that, where he cannot
20 ten rods except on dnty, has no opportunity
Of learning anything save what he sits from
camp runors /; and all such rumors, I have long
since learned, are fully large as the education
Of Il soldier or officer will allow him to make
But it makes no difference with US what or how
much we know about our position, strength or
movements. One thing We 90 know, and that is
Ill that your correspondent or the Vermont Bri-
5ade cares to know till alter the battle, AID
that Is, that Mcclellan S army will aerer be de-
eated or outgeneared. This is our religion,
rs much as prayer and faith IS that of the
Did both you, the good people of
Vermont, and US soldiers all know that tO-lnor-
ow morn at daybreak we were TO bo marched
lpon the bloodlest battlefield Of modern days,
he slumbers of many wife, mother, father,
sister and brother would be wakeful, but ace
Should sleep sonndly ill the spirt,s,irring drum
called US to duty. Such, sir, is what soldiers
in his great Captain Is worth TO the
Union. Is it not priceless Who then, would
disturb or destroy 1t, OF exchange it for the car.
patriotism OF the - on to-Rich-
nond Press aud politicians OF the present and
past? What would Regiments, Brigades, Divls.
ons, or corps d. ermee be worth ia the mucky
wamps and thicket forests OF this peninsula
Without confidence in the man, the GENERAL,
VINO is to direct all their movements? Why,
Without this confidence, and the courage and
larng it engenders, the destiny OF this Union
Ajghc as well be in the hands Of the most des-
ootlc power on oarth-Engand, or the most
iagerous power in America-a subse,uient,
money making, metropolitan Press.
But AIN losing all space for such items as
nay be interesting to your readers. OF our
}repara tions, movements aud strength for the
,reat battle before us, L can say nothing, for
Know nothing that is " olicial,'' or that has au-
hority outside Of our own camp-tres, and as
&c have among us regular authorized agents of
he Associated Press, who have no other business
On their hands than to obtain and furnish you
lrmy news, you must depend upon them for all
: well authenticated information.
What Congress could not 90 with the suffers
he roads and swamps OF the peninsula have ac-
They have left US, and by SO do
nS soldiers and officers are deprived of advan-
ages and Injuries, not over expensive, that
make camp liio dreary and severe. What a
)Ost-oifce, express line, or railroad ie to a COM
nunity like Mont PETER, the sutler department
S to the army. We cannot write letters, or get
| stamp to pay postage without % sutler. We
cannot use tobacco without d suter, and an ar
ny without tobacco is in "a bad fix, not as bad
perhaps, as ship without rudder, but Ger
,ainlg as uncomfortable nervous and fretful as
, young and darling widow without beau
Such is the situation Of this brigade. Send to-
lay five hundred pounds of tobacco to this reg
ment, and thousand dollars in god with the
choice OF taking one or the other, the gold would
not even be counted, while the tobacco would
be seized like sweet cakes before a picnic table
81 children. And SO it is with the other advan-
tages we enjoyed when the suller was with us.
gave you in my last an abstract of General
Brooks speech to the pig, hen and horse thiefs.
When he made that speech he certainly did not
intend to spoil his command with hattery; new
ertbeless he thinks the world of US Vermont
soldiers he says. g are an enigma--they excel
any troops he ever had to deal with they will
march all day with heavy knapsacks, guns, and
four days rations, and on arriving at camp at
niUht thav will fall tan acraa nj fnroat AVID ho