The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-07-18
NUMBER 7O6

About 5000 wounded are to be found in the
hospitals. About $50 have been buried by the
rebels.
Some of the most remarkable escapes are re-
ported. Persons have been buried with the show
er Of dirt thrown up by shells in front of them.
Others haye had their clothing torn from them.
their faces blackened with powder and other
strange escapes.
Indeed, the cooness of these people under the
terrible fire is most astonishing They have become
SO familiar with the sound and symptom of bomb.
Parrott and columbiad, as to be able to designate
them and their course with unerring certainty.
Such tire-baptism has given them something Of
the saamandrne character. As one of them des-
cribed the philosophy to me If you see she'll
burst above you stand still, unless it is very high
if it be the sound of a Parrot, the shot has
passed before you heard it; alarm is needless, and
so on. No men in the world have ever been
called upon to endure so heavy fire, and none
we fancy would now prove such splendid arter
lists.
We have seen no conflict between the two par
ties, the victors and the vanquished, as yet. All
day to-day and yesterday, the knots of soldiers
have been busy engaged in discussing the merits
of their respective battles, and the old, old issue
of the right of their rebellion. Many of our
men are offering their haversacks and canteens to
the rebels. Many of the steamboatmen recog-
nize old acquaintances. Here are loyal and dis
loyal Missourans traternizng (and in one case
| fghting) and few brothers and cousins are
greeting each other with strange sense of rela-
tionshp. . ., .....
Upon one point the rebel officers are complain
ing In their negotiations they show great anxiety
to save their negro servants personal property
but this our leader could not yield. No sooner
we're We in, than the recruiting officers commenced
their unique system of recruiting, much to the
chagrn of the rebels. In one or two cases ap-
peas have been made to Gen. Grant, who replies
that these men are free to go or remain, upon
fair understanding Of their new state in life.'
A correspondent of the Tribune whose letter
is dated on the 9Th, says:
"The rebel soldiers, instead of lying close in
their trenches, roaming about the city unaru-
ed, in unrestraned but amicable intercourse with
8 those of our own army who have been permitted
: to enter the town. Gay uniforms of gray cloth,
richly bedizened with gold lace, and profusely
decked with stars and bright trimmings, are in
close juxtaposition with the holiday attire of our
S own shoulder-strapped friends-a strange morn
ing sight for Vicksburg. The women and children
have had quiet nights rest in their beds at home
thing which has not occurred before for forty
a eight days. Guards in blue uniforms are station
ed at the entrance of the stores and other places
where goods of any kind are deposited. Near a
hundred steamboats, are lying at the wharf-a
# sight which the people here rejoice at more than
g any other. Where, yesterday morning, starva.
It tion was staring men and women in the face
0 plenty now reigns. The poor conscripts in dirt.
i colored clothes are making themselves exceeding.
ly happy over real coffee, which has found it's wa
: to them from our commissary stores. Manv =,
them have not seen anything Of the kind before
for twelve months. What great changes are
worked in single day is the exclamation upon
!, every lip" ......