Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-02-12
A. LIN GIN.

What the Yankee sOl"isrs say and think of the
War-Gro~Ing Sick of the Job of Crushing out
| the Misunderstanding Discomfort and D,prcA-
sion.
| The Providence (R. II Post prints extracts from
several letters written by soldiers in the Army OF
tn Potomac, which very significant. One writer,
who has been connected with the army almost from its
organic alton, and who has uttered Wor1 of
complaint until now, writes
DEAR c. | am sick of this war-so sick that
do not upon what terms it settled. have seen
thousands of men laying mangled on fifteen or sixteen
different battle-helds-tor nothing Wives sisters
mothers and children losing their husbands brothers,
sons and fathers-all for nothing! For here have
been fighting for as year and half and we have
not gained one point. We have lived and are now
living, nine ten crackers piece of pork and
some miserable copperas-water, called coffee, per day
all TO fill the pockets OF lot of thieves who trying
to make all they out Of the people ard the Govern
ment. The soldiers all discouraged, and will not
fight they would once the Peninsula All we hear
from Washington is the Niger, theingger the - black
filthy niger. One niger Is thought more of than
twenty white who have left home and all that is
worth living for TO come aud Jay down their lives ii
need be- tosave their country while tie leaders are do
ing their utmost to ruin it. It is not because we can't
beat the rebels, that the is not by this time
for we beat them. But it is because the Govern.
ment too busy thinking of the ngger to see that the
men where they ought to be when they are wanted
You must not set me down as GROWER ! have good
reason for my growing Almost every man in the
army thinks do If Job had served in the army of
the Potomac, be would have sinned, and most fear
fully too.
The following extract is from letter written near
Falmouth, by member of one the regiments raised in
1862 The writer has been known for several years in
the village of Woonsocket, Massachusetts, as an active
Republican politician aad vote distributor at the
polls at the last town meeting which he attended.
chad known much of the management of things six
months ago as know now, fifty yoke of oxen couid not
have drawn out here. 1t is all id political ham
bug and got up to make Offices for lazy Office seekers
wish the leaders far the other side of
as they are this side 1t has turned out to be an abo
ton war, and nneynine soldiers out of hundred saw
that the aboitionsts going to carry on the
they will have to get new army. They say they came
out here to fight for the Union and not for pack of
id niggers. These niggers are lazy and dirty they
will lie and steal and they saucy where they dare
to BE- If soldier touches officers niger. he will
get courtmartiaed and lose months pay. A niger
thought more of by the government than the soldiers
ara They get as much pay and don't have te fight any
curse on such things. hope something will turn up
before tomorrow night that will settle this war; We
got whipped at Fredericksburg, and we shall get whip
ped every time we fight in Virginia don't think the
North is right any more than the South"
We learn that Col. r. r. Hoke of the 2lst N G.
regiment has been promoted to the rank of Brgader
General. and that the 9th, 21st 54th and 57th n O.
eoiments constitute his brigade. II