Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1863-07-24

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courage us to come over, throw over a can
teen. We will not shoot.-Lt. j. ID. ~
La" Their canteens, unlike ours, are alto
gether wooden, and they seem very anxious
10 exchange. The canteen was thrown
over, and that night twelve rebels "came
over" at that place, and delivered them
selves up as prisoners, stating that they
were already prisoners, they did not care to
be received and treated as such-tllat any
thing was preferable to starvation. Deser-
tions are very frequent from the rebel line.
is reported that as high as l24 in one
night came over the works near Gen.
Carr's division on the left, with guns, KNAPP
sacks, and everything. "P. A. So spoken
Of above, lieutenant in the Twenty-sev-
enth Louisiana regiment, last night, per
agreement with Lieut.. Heddington, that he
should be allowed to return, came over the
works, and they conversed together for
some time He would divulge nothing of
interest--spoke rather despondingly OF
Vicksburg--though it possible that the en-
tire garrison would spend the summer
North; had nothing agains. us-was fight
ing for principle, and would desert, but for
the disgrace of the thing. Lit. Sage. Co.
G, Twenty-sixth Iowa, also met and con-
versed with Acting Adjutant Collins, Thir-
tieth Louisiana regiment, who came over
the works and remained an hour and half.
He considered the Vickshurg garrison
already as good as prisoners, and thought
he should when it should please Gen Grant
to make the transfer, enjoy the trip North
exceedingly. They had not plenty of am
munition at Vicksburg, had sufficient to re-
pei charge and were saving it for that
purpose. There were great many sick
both of soldiers and citizens in Vicksburg.
They were short of medical stores, and most
OF their wounded-even the slightly wound
ed-were suffering and dying from ina,ten-
ton. He wanted to know what Sherman
was wounded at Port Hudson. Said that
our heavy cannonading last Saturday, killed
but one man that he knew Of and he was
fooling with an unexploded shell. when il
burst and blew him into atoms. Represents
the army as seriously demoralized, as hos
tile to Pemberton, and says it is no general
ship to hold their present works. Expected
to live in the South, or he'd deselt-did
we were pleased 10 keep him, he'd stay
he could make them believe he was forced
TO remain, but that would be disgrace to
Us as We had promised that he should re-
.---~ Tln --,a-ah.-,.s - N,.kshurp had
opened their stores, and turned over all the
-four, tobacco, &c, TO the authorities, who
had issued it TO the soldiers. The mer-
chants thought il would soon be confiscated
anyhow, aud their corn meal would soon be
exhausted. They haven't bit of bust
head" very strong indication of imme-
date capitulation. A lady who had been
out to see her husband at the outer works,
while returning, and when one mile from
our pckets, had her arm shattered by shot
from our sharp<hooters. He put on very
long face when Lieut.. Sage told him that
Joe Johnston had been badly whipped. lie
is their main and only hope. The citizens
have carved out great caverns nnder the
supervision of the engineers, have made
them she'll proof, furnished and ventilated
them, and many of them are so far under
ground that, should the city surrender, it
would be week ere they learned it. Their
surgeons lived there likewise, and from the
mouths of their burrows, which have been
co istructed for river attack, operate upon
under shady trees. Very often in the act
of amputating a leg or extracting ball,
! the operators, who seemed TO be endowed
with all the instincts of "praire dog,
! hearing the buzzing of shell, quit their
work, abandon their subject to the storm,
and scud for their holes. The men do their
! cooking in bitches.
4 This evening three Of their bands came
out near the works and played several STIR
ring airs. Our boys wanted them to play
Yankee Doodle" but they wouldn't play
it--lhat had "played out" They played
= Dixie and retired.
"P. A. s." AGAIN.
To-day the inevitable g. p. A. S" made
out and sent over to Lieut.. Heddngton the
following:
"sprorkr. aeevie,rross
For box Sardines, 5 pounds Cheese,
paper of Smoking Tobacco, and / bottle O.
Whiskey."
The Lieutenant Immediately procured
and sent over all the articles required bu
the last, switch he would have been happy
exceedingly happy, to have sent also, had j
not been that he was so far from his whis
key base that it was impossible at all time!
10 procure supply of that article" In re
turn, he received an elegant gold perci
worth So. To one Of our mining parties
who are within hailing distance of the enc
my, the rebel pickets sent the following
dispatch =
Work quiet boys, boys = beep youl
heads low - withsianding we'll shoe
high, yet keep your heads low and do no
,alk-for if our big officers hear you, they
will make US shoot you J"
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