Litchfield enquirer., 1863-11-19

risfsf md were siarionsd in iss
 trenches Thea about eight hundred yards from
 Wagner. Next day myself &ith tvoothsrs od
 cur e, and sesenteen fFsn she Nhsle Reg's
 wers dstailed as sbsspshoDlSss ,o report td Capt Fla ,he Sd New Hal Spshire Rsg't. Tho
 hrstday re praetiesd firing It . target, and fgot the complimept from Capt Els of doing
 better than any ot:ier lot of men that he had
 tried Next day Co.,, of one hundred and
 live sharpshoeters from the different Reg'ts
 was formed. Our camp was above all the oth-
 CTS aDd Ainls sysr one milsd sd6issidsefWag, psfl lWsIwers iin sasyl aDEv sfwathtr ba.
 seldom got shot,as there was plenty for them fte shoot at near + Cur dtty was for ous half of the Co.,, to go
 tQ the front sxsry daY. Ne had to he. there he.
 fore daylight in the morning and stay until after dark the eyehipg, hasf Vi which made each
 man on duty sixteen hours out of itJ.i
 liked the duty Very y much and think sff6eare
 was none any better onthe Island! ou Will
 remember ahatg four Co.'S of our Reg were
 witR the1frst wGo lahdsd Oh eths Island and Fled afhe first ehargepoi wagner.S Most oftRsse msn were 6p Artillery 'whsn che 9ssst of the fReg egsariSysdsi AHefweEsds sseed'thsfe aseat ttsn dsysisvsry manwss detsilsd they worked every kindsof gun that was being used from fths liisie Gshomi Mortars snpito the 300 pound Bafroas fexseptsthe 200 pound Parrotts which twers worked hY thu -sa Rhede- .iand, which is an artillery Reg,k )sao3 1e1 aad tsasd aagl iao do not. meana you q ts Auderstand that our
 Rsgt worked all the guns s1cepto the 200 pouqn- sq
 ders but that they worked on every kind of
 gun except those besides a ws we, had bad few men (Carpentera, J working on the dock ,and anothr | CT squad as boat Picket which picketed the river between James and Morris Island. Y"
 We also had two men from our Co.,, in the fPosf ouartermaster's department, as clerks, Barrden1 Smith and Dexter, clerks at Headquar- fters, and Mr. Lanndon as clerk for the Muster ling officer ofthis deparment:@iq s'd q a9"A !
 meant to have said Before that that our sharp shooting played out after tbe evacuation of Wagner, but we were kept practicing at the target fer; oae o month After that, when tie Co. was broken up and all the me- men returned to their regiments had thought that ouf Reg | had done all kinds of military work but 1t seems that some thinking mind has contrived up something new, and the7thl lCsV!ois' to try the experiment. a9 We2 left Morris Island for the purpose of coming down. here to drill in boats, the object of which is to land from small boats and form | a dine of batile3 3fthe quicker it is done and done lweiliathes better The Reg't commenced yesterday but as l was on guard have not been out yet, We have nov twenty-five boats. which are made of pine, flat bottom. and md both ends are the same, thsd oars are only si1 si1 fest long and san be s used ito rpY cor paddle. The boys who were out yesterday, liked the rowing very well hut when Ss bly they e9pe to lapd and get IYst up tetheiri waist ihis not go funny. There isf one good, thing about it that is that the officers cannot go on horse @ back but must De with the men and jump into the water and get just as ,oef. i, :. a 4
 We have much more pleasant place here for our camp than we had on Morris island. tho water is very much betier and we can buy number of Kinds of vegetables ofthe negroes. " ~se only i've miles from the Head which does not seem quite 50 much out of the world -H l seethat some are getting little impatient
 and seem to think that Gen. Gilmore isnot
 driving things ns fast as he niight: Pers sons potacquainted with.thc business havc no idea how much work it is to build batteries that will stand thes cross" concentrated fire which Fort Moultrie and the other batteries on Suli vans Island, with Fort Jobnston and line of batteries nearly one mile long on James Is- lsnd can, give, and at tae same time all thi. work has to be done under heavy fire from those Islands almost all the time I Ilshoyeled sand one day before we came here. on, Wagner and while I was there the Rebs fired two hun; dred and ten shots nt us besides what they fir cd at battery Gregg. We, had two. or three men killed and over twenty five wounded that day. there were seven W rounded from our Reg't, one one of which had to' have his leg amputated above the kneea think that one of the great
 reason. Gen ilmores success sse 4 is tie sse pro tvction he gives his men, for it Is the men that do tic work, and in plaee'like that if a man man thinks he has tproper prosestion and makes up his mind he won't work there, ,there are not officers enough in the army to make him, all they cantaoais to call lhim coward, after which she!eertainly won't do anything! s0c5 asb 9alD 9mnl9I al!et eI sgoy-sssJg -.--4la -z91A g 7rs-r- s'I,7z t-s zrsg xu4od .zsbaoqsa THE,BpUNTYs BILL ST syoy
 The following is, the yolunteer bounty bill as amended and passed by both, houses of the legislature at the extra session:a 1es@ aa3 ! AN xcrsTo@ PROVIDE TOR THE PAYMENT OF E BOUNTY TO VOLUNTEERS. 'ssgist!99 Ins sa.