Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-11-15
Letter from Lieut. Col. LINCOLN.

EORT LYON, NOV. y, 1862.
My Dear SIR Your issue of the 9TH has
just reached me, and have read the letter of
your correspondent from the 34th with some
interest. Speculations as to the writer of it
were wild. Who has visited us and received
such erroneous impressions? No one knows.
Is it possible that we have in our own ranks
any one who would deliberately write such a
letter. 1t is to be hoped not. | notice the
letter only to correct its mis-statementS.
The location of the camp is not particularly
good; no doubt it is to some extent an un-
healthy one. Yet so far is it from being true
that 'an tloo or three companies tUo-thi9dS of
the men are pronounced By the SURGEON INIT
for Duty" it is far from being true, or ever
hGCing been true of one. The largest number
of sick reported by any company of the regi-
ment is 36, and this subsequent to the date of
your correspondents letter. And at the very
time OF this report the company next it on the
line had but 8 or 8 sick. You see, therefore,
that your correspondent is as far from the
truth IN his statement as the number sc fails
OF being two-thirds of SO. We have more
sick, l am willing to acknowledge, than is
pleasant; but not all owing to the location
OF the camp. The seasons of chills and
fever, of bilious and typhoid fevers, is
upon us, and large number of sick is
to be expected. But Hernia, of which we
have quite number of cases, phthisis, con-
sumption, heart disease, curvatures of the
spine, and diseases Of that nature, | believe
are not traceable to malaria or to low and
tOggy marshes. There are other diseases, so
common with the soldier as almost to be look
ed upon as necessary accompaniment of
camp life, which spring neither from climate,
influence, or unhealthy locations, of which
we have some. Second, in reference to the
review at Alexandria.
This regiment received an invitation from
Gen. Sickles to perform escort duty for the
president on that occasion, which invitation
was accepted There were no other unbg.io-
AIDED regiments invited, or, if there were any
invited, none were present. The escort was
by the thirty-fourth Massachusetts, and no 9TH
er regiment. A small company of cavalry
Off the squad is to be dignifed with the name
of company and small battery of artillery,
both from Gen. Sickles' command, composed
the van of the escort.
Nor is the statement that the ''left of our
line made grand descent upon the premises
of secesh baker" any less destitute of foun-
dation than the preceding statement
My situation was such as to enable me to
see the whole line, and it is very strange if
any such transactions happened thai itshould
have escaped my notice nor ever reached my
ears, and should be made known to us first by
your correspondent. So far is it from being
true that any secesh baker or store was clean
ed out by sour boys" there is hardly any pre-
tence for such statement.
Some of our men, in exchange for some
pies, offered ticket of our sutler, which was
Of course declined The pies, however,
were taken. The man at once appealed to
me, then setting not thirty feet from the store,
and the men, sour boys" instantly left the
store at the order of Capts, Cooley and Fox.
If your correspondent, Mr.. Editor, is a
travelling friend of yours, do pray ask him to
draw less upon his imagination for his state
ments. If he Is one of "our boys" but no
that can't be, for can't believe that any one
OF our boys has so little regard for the good
name of his regiment, as to write such Il
series misstatements. If it is one of our boys,
the cocaethes se,ibendi must be added to the
list OF diseases by which the Oath is made to
suffer.
Very respectfully and truly yours,
WIN. S. LINCOLN.