Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1863-06-19
The Right Spirit.

A brother typo, who is Lieutenant il
4 Grants army. and who is on detached ser
vice at Lagrange. Tenn, writes spirited
and patriotic letter to his brother-in-law in
this town, from which we are permitted t.
make an extract for publication. We would
direct particular attention to his remarks or
the northern sympathizers with the rebels
He writes under date of June 9th =.
"DEAR BROTHER - = Grant
has been heavily reinforced from this de-
partment and other places, and more troops
are going to-day, and his army is large
enough to attend to Pemberton in front
and Johnston in the rear, so you may ex-
pect TO hear that Vicksburg is ours, almost
any day. News came yesterday that Banks
had surrounded Port Hudson, and that
place, like ripe apple, would fall into his
hands in few days. This secured, and
the Mississippi river is open to commerce
once more, the Confederacy cut in two, and
l cannot agree with you that this war
moves slow,-on the contrary, it moves fast.
tell you, Brother, it is big thing, it is q
mighty big war. Just take yonr history
and pencil, and compute the territory and
population, on both sides, and then compare
it with the Mexican war, or the Revolution,
or any foreign civil war, and you will find
we have fought more battles, conquered
more territory, in little more than two
years, than any nation ever did before
When this rebellion broke out, the South
was all ready TO fight, for they had been
getting ready for some time, but the North
was not ready they had made no prep
aration for war, the people did not and could
not realize that civil war was inaugurated /;
and there are thousands and thousands of
intelligent people at the North to-day, per-
sons whose judgment is good in other things,
who have no realizing sense of what war
really is. had no idea of war until had
been in service three months. When we
began the forced marches, chasing old Price
through Mississippi, marching without tents
or knapsacks, and ahead of our trains, with
nothing to eat, because the mule teams
couldn't keep up with the men, the mud as
deep as it is in Vermont when the frost first
comes out in the spring, then l had real
izing sense that large bodies more sloao.
Brother, the worst feature of this war, the
one which the intelligent soldier feels the
keenest, which cuts to the quick, and which
is harder to endure than long marches, hun
ger, thirst, or even charging up TO the can
mons mouth, is this eternal fire in the rear,
the action Of the copperhead traitors and
the secesh sympathizers at the North. We
who left our happy, comfortable homes, our
wives and children, our fathers and mothers,
brothers and sisters, and all we hold dear,
with our lives in our hands, have gone forth
TO defend our Constitution, to uphold the
Administration, yea. 10 preserve the very
life Of the best Government the world ever
knew. We are entitled to better treatment
from those who stay at home and roll in ease
and luxury. / tell you, Sir, these copper
heads are marked men; they viii be re-
membered by all the soldiers who live 10
get home, and woe to them, if they don't
keep their lying tongues STILL"