Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-11-07
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Correspondence of the Worcester Daily spy.l

Correspondence of the Worcester Daily spyl
From the Thirty-FOurth Regiment.
QHiet an the Upper Rctomac Regioa--T
Northern Election Contests What q Sol
der thinks about Them CopperheadiSm
and its Fruits.
CAMP OF 34th Mass. INANTRY,
Harper's Ferry, Va, Nov. 8, 1868. )
A1'. Editor-Although nothing of especial
interest has transpired here of late, yet 1
don't know that L can better spend leisure
than by giving it to the venerable SPY. Since
the late fight near Berryvile, the rebs have
been uncommony scarce in this region, our
cavalry having found none on their recent
scout through the valley. When Lee retreat
ed, his auxiliary forces undoubtedly fell back
with him. Gen. Imboden has, | believe. been
operating for long time in this department.
which is quite large one, extending from the
Monocacy river, up through Western Vir-
ginia. He is an active and energetic officer,
keeping US continually on the alert, not so
much by his strength his peculiar style of
warfare, which is not exactly regular. His
custom is not to engage in fair open field
light; he never does that but to strike at de-
tached parties, isolated posts, wagon trains,
weakly guarded bridges, &C., so that it is ex-
ceedingly difficult for even superior force
to check all his operations
If l remember rightly, this is election day
in Massachusetts; and though not politically
inclined at present, yet it seems to me now
that it would be pleasing could we here exer-
else the right we priced SO highly at home.
Possibly it might be unsafe to confer on us the
privilege, but after having witnessed the brave
Ohio soldiers exercise it with propriety and
in good faith, am confident no harm would
result from its extension to others; for am
unwilling to admit that the soldiers of Massa
chusetts are less intelligent and Trustworthy.
But though temporarily denied the privilege
OF exercising the dearest right of a citizen.
yet, wherever we move, or by whatever cir
cumstances surrounded, we shall always re-
member with pride, and be guided in all our
acts by the consciousness, that we are citi-
zens still of the noblest commonwealth in the
world. l presume the election in Massachu.
sets will prove rather one sided affair. in
tact very much like fighting all alone | am
rather unsophsticated in political matters,
bonor-isp,t II Mr. IJiton2 .. - Nie'
nnsuccassfnI csnI;da+a % .I i iu,i 90 an
marty in M.esooh,sattH :. ~ We ci".ic
r. bH shot Of ,tI,t ~ ap nc
beino abl. m rot,,rn tSa e. - oSpeC' VI
that 1t Is regarded as an honorable martyr |
DOM still l am unable to call to mind any one |
VINO has turned up as saint, after passing |
through the delightful operation, although in |
my earlier years l wOrshipped at the demo- |
eonotbinlr stro,,rI iiie 'ii1ie must oe
~ their {ras,,t Gu aoout n' lor
man of sanse he "artaiaI,. a"i sOaeIIor Is
fyrA,tor h ~ li;'' X. '"ii .io
t'Iin 49,. H. - % eii'loild l
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shit D.. Us IS = : "eioeo 'no 1A''dnlic on
t,+ D . me 10 no accounting Ior Juan |
go, -. i' ~ al Ieast, SO IL
IN camp, ponticaI discussions are never in
dulged in, and we trouble ourselves but little |
about politics, as long as they are not di-
rected against our welfare, efficiency, or
safety; but | remember to have read, |
few weeks since, series of resou-
tons adopted bv the democratic state |
convention of Massachusetts,, laudatory of |
Massachusetts soldiers. and expressing a high |
regard and devotion to their welfare. but what |
seemed peculiar and strange, (although | be- |
Iieve If is characteristic of such conventional |
was that their acts were in direct opposition |
To the shirt of thair resolutions There was.
ton one other incident connected with that |
conyantion-a little incident--but it lives in |
the memory of every Massachusetts soldier. |
and thora lis influence will remain loro after |
we return ia the loved ones at home. refer |
to the one armed soldier: and those misses are |
even now singing sharply in our ears
The democratic party of Massachusetts was
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