Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1863-02-06
Our armO Correspondence,
FROM THE TENTH REGIMENT.

FROM THE TENTH REGIMENT.
The ,oeather-The inAahitants "secesh"- pfsa TO a
crave yqrd.-Deah Of Henry h. Ciarfi Of Dare
Sick reooreyiHg..- RetUrnQ Of capt DW1 CHAM S0ord
presentation to Lieut.. COL Henry -Promotions.-
Rumors.
CAM CHANDLER CoNRAD's FnRy, Md
JAS'Y %, 1868.
DEAR Journal THE severest storm Of
the season u now raging snow, with heavy
northwest wind making it any ling but an
agreeable day for our soldiers to be out in
The 'picket" draws his oil cap down closely,
ties on his rubber blanket, " secures arms &,
and stands and takes it, while the camp
guard walks his beat and thinks those two
hours are the longest ones he ever saw
Companies Is, g, and X, still remain at Con
RAIDS Ferry, and undoubtedly will until the
brigade again moves. Our tents arc fixed up
nicely for winter, so "we'll stand the storm,
it won't be long"
do not know as your readers are aware
there are any "secesh' in this part OF Mary
land but in no portion of South Carolina
are the people any more tainted with IL ihan
they are here, with one or two exceptions.
A few days since had horse back ride,
and in my ramblings l came to soldiers
burial ground--a small patch fenced oft-and
in it were thirty graves; some four or five OF
the head boards bore inscriptions, of members
Of SEQ. G., 9TH Mich. Reg't.' 1t must have
been with a painful sense of grief and duty
that some members Of that company wrote
home to their friends that he, whom they
supposed was alive and well, had breaihed
his last, and his spirit had taken It's figh'
to, we hope, Mghtsr anu better world
and now it becomes the same sad duty
some friend of Henry L. Clark OF Barre
who breathed his last early this morning
Sunday eve, he complained of a bad head
ache; Monday it was no better, and yester
day he went to the hospital. This morning
his spirit had left its owner here upon thu
earth his disease was the typhoid lunl
/ fever, he had been we'll previous to last Sab
/ bath, as the best Of us he was good sol
/ der, and will be missed as much as any mem
/ Der of this company.
Henry Bradley is recovering slowly, bu
surely, also our Orderly Sergeant, l.. A. Alb
bolt. Capt. Dillingham; returned week ag
last Monday, and right gladly, was his mani.
form welcomed in the midst of US again.
Company b, few days since, presented t.
Lieut. Col. Henry, now in command OF tn
regiment, (Col. Jewett being in command o
the brigade through the hands Of Sergean
| Carter. a sword. as a testimonial OF the ap
probation which this Company bear toward
him. The Company fell in at half past one
/ p. NJ, with dress coats on, opened ranks
facing inwards Sergean: Carter at the left O
the Company, sword in hand when Col
Henry stepped to the head Of the Co. an
Sergeant Carter advanced through and up th
center Of the Co and with frw appropriat
remarks for the occasion pic. ented u. Co
Henry spoke few words IN reply, and clos
ed with this remark "that when the rebel
take this sword, they will take me- 1t wa
beautiful gold mounted steel scabbard sabre
and all the boys thought that the contribution
they gave towards it was well spent whe
they saw with what gratif, alton it was re
ceived.
Since my last, our second lieutenant. l.. L
Thompson, has received the appointment c
first lieutenant in Co. G., made vacant by tn
promotion of Lieut.. Blodgett to thu captainc
of Co. T.. Serg't Maj. John A. Hicks, jr., {
Rutland, also, has received the appointmer
Of second lieutenant in place of Lieut.. ThomF
son. They are promotions well worthy tn
men, for they are excellent officers.
All sorts of rumors are flying around cam
I of Burnsides crossing the RAppahannock, an
cunning stlo .s.s'cTASsf sht anu len wings, ana
the MORALLY wounding Of GLORIOUS old fgh
ing Joe Hooker" which must not be true
we cannot afford to o lose him in the preset
crisis of the nation. And another thing
am glad to learn that the government
! going to, or already has, do not kno
: which, assigned place for Gen. Phelps
l A nobler man than he, or one truer to b
his country, never yet buckled on his arm
and fought for the liberties ofhis country.
l received three copies of the journal t
& day. cannot describe the pleasure wi
81 which receive them, nor do l think uuy Of
1 can. ours, IL. NJ. p.