The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-02-11
(our War Correspondence.)
From the Sixth Vermont Regiment.

CAMP GRIFFIN, Feb 4, 1862.
EDITOR FREEMAN You cannot toll from as-
tual experience with what pleasure we receive
your paper here in camp, nor with what avidty
oil hands devour its contents, when they are
fortunate enough TO get hold of it. 1t seems to
US that We have friend, almost from our own
families, visiting Us when it makes it, appear
ance among us. 1t is q fact that we learn more
of what is going on around us, even in our own
Brigade, and especially IN Rebellion, from Yer.
mont papers than from any other source. But
there are some things which come within our
knowledge. that cannot be known 10 Vermont
ers, unless We inform them of them. That there
is a great desire among the people of the North
that the army on the Potomac make an advance
and come in collision with the enemy, is pretty
generally known among US, and we also know
that you, at home, are wondering that We are
not ordered forward and some Of us here in
Camp Griffin are getting really nervous on &C.
count Of our prolonged stay in this place. We
all desire as much to move rs you wish to have
Us, and some, even here, see no obstacles to him
der us from making grand march with our
"grand army But for the information of
those who have no chance from any other source
Of knowing how we are situated. will give you
slight description OF things as they appear to
me.
In the first place, while you have been having
snow, white and clean, good sleighing and pass
able roads, we have had drizzling rains, and
mud mud, mud, and no end to mud Let us
20 about camp in the performance Of the duties
which must be attended to, and, be the Journey
never so short, on our return to quarters it il
impossible to tell what was tho color of our
boots and lower part OF our pantaloons when w
| started out. The sacred soil sickcth closer thar
| brother. For the last four weeks it won ID
besn impossible to have moved the baggage anc
artillery necessary in the successful advance O.
an army, and the prospect now is, that We can
not move in less than three weeks, if we can
that time, as it continues to storm almost all thu
time, and the ground is very soft. The inhabi
tants who live and have lived about here, Ga,
tina: the stormy season continues six Or seveI
weeks. Ii that 10 the case, we cannot move 70
three weeks to come.
Again, should we make o march at this tmo
many would inevitably die from exposure an,
disease, in consequence Of lying upon the grou n
while it Is 20 very wet, and the season 50 un
propitous. For these reasons, am sure tina
we shall not make any move at present but
Go think that US soon us the travelling will per
NIT, we shall start to some point where we ma
be Of service in active operations. This morn
ing the ground was frozen, and the snow deepe
than at any one time previous since we huv
been in Virginia, thus making the walking j
camp quite t1lerable but the teams are ofte
ias. in the mud to-day, sec. vermonters ca
form but an imperfect idea of the badness ,
the travelling, unless they have travelled in som
Of the Southern or Western States in mud time.
The camp of the Sixth is so located that tn
water runs of considerably, thus rendering
less muddy than most of the other regiment;
grounds about us, and We can make Ourselvs