The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-02

From the ARMY of the Potomac.
EXTRACTS PR ON LETTER FROM REV. y. A. MACK CHAP
TIE RECIPIENT.
CAMP NEAR YoRKrowN, VA, Nav i

CAMP NEAR YORKTOWN, Va, May j.
Editor Of Me Messenger Since | wrote
you last | have witnessed more human suffer
log than ever did before in MY life My
quarters are now at the Brigade Hospital,
where all the sick and wounded from the Yer.
mont, and other, regiments are brought. We
have about hundred on our sick list now.
Near US is another Bri gade Hospital, where
there are over hundred sick, and as they
have no Chaplain at present wet over
aud offered my services, which were very
gratefully accepted by the Surgeon Ie-tcr-
Jay and the day before, was at Fortress
Mo roe visiting our sick. rs near as | can
ascertain, we have large number oI sick and
wounded il the different HosPitl,s Ga my
way to the tort | saw brick Church which
had ben converted Ito a hospital. felt,
as ooked in and saw the sex lying ia the
pcws, pulpit aud orchestra that it va, not
desecra,eI BY being deyo'e4 to 50 Lumapc a
purpose
About /, DnI~ lrvm i yo, ,jaoi, The Cne:-
apeake Female Coicgc Buildings, which are
used Tor Hospital and although tnerc BAD
been six hundred there on tae sick list, at
the time Of my visit the number was reduced
to three hundred aud fifty.
You wish 10 know when we are to take
Yorktown! 1t is ours already, and report
says several thousand prisoners, but the lat
ter n, eds confirmation. | have been today
where /; would have been certain death to
have gone yesterday. The rebels evacuated
pn nd luS ,If,ht md N Il
Stripes to day wave over their deserted torli,
ticatons. We have one poor. frightened fell
low, who was brought in this morning, who
thought the Northern Yankees mighty bad
fellows" and that they would fire at him
right smart The Army Of the Poto,
mac is starting toward Richmond, and it
will accomplish whatever it undertakes
Thursday, May Sh After the enemy
left YORKTOWN they fled towards Williams.
burg. Our army pursued in hot haste, aud
did not give them much leisure before bat.
tie commenced IN earnest, about o'clock
Sunday afternoon, and was renewed on Mon
day morning about & o'clock You have
doubtless read the accounts of the struggle in
the daies, therefore will not enter into de-
'"''S' 'HS ASoSio hhaliJ SOitcluuCu thdt ulS
cretlon was the better part OF vaIor, and ac-
cordlng to recent custom, evacuated their for
tihcations. Consequently, on Tuesday morn
ing, we found ourselves alone in our glory, in
iull possession OF the field, strewed with their
dead and wouuded--wo found in ono fort
about hundred dead aud wounded, whom
they had deserted-and all over the battlt.
field lay the dead, friend and Toe side by side
This being the first battlefield over which [
ever walked, | could but calculate, sob. the
horrors of wa: i he battle ragged tho hard
est about the time | arrived at the scene Of
conflict at 4 O'Clock Near by stood n
church, which, being converted into hospital.
was soon filled with the poor wounded fellows,
aud many were carried on ambuances to
Yorktown, while the rain poured down in tor
rents making the roads almost impossible.
Tuesday, as | passed over the fed, and 90.
ing past u fort, | halted to attend the burial
of nine OF the dead from the 9th Wisconsin
regiment. | visited the fort where we found
many of the cnemy's dead and wounded.
who had laid on the cold, damp ground, in the