The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1863-12-26
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Fed. generals don't live any better than th
reb generals, my bower.
7hrs4Gy, Auyttst 23d Prepare to 90 (,
Vicl< burg by railroad start to Wick sbur.
by railroad; walk four miles and a hal
through the hot sun and see the grea
Ulysses S, playiully and !acetiously called
old Unconditional Surrender" Ask tc
be paro!ed and go back into Dixie. Nary
parole except the limits of the city A
| walk around this bone of sanguinary con.
tenton, my bower, reveals some curious
/ facts and arouses some spec al collections.
! Here are holes in the bluffs wherein the
1 brave Lapstones sheltered themselves from
the iron storm. or peacefully sought to eat
/ in comfort their iaiions of the last mule
and the last dorg" BY the way. my
bower, that :" last dorg' speech of my ua-
Gle Berton is k>g k narG-he never made
it.
1t is doubtless a fabrication of my uncle
Jake to get up a sort Of :, dime and half
enthusiasm in the minds OF outsiders, and
induce credulous people to believe that
the Lapstones had some respect for Mr..
Berton. You have doubtless Heard, too
my bower, that Nicksburg went up for
want of provisions That story won't do,
Jacque, for saw with my own ewes the
who'e levee, so far as the eye could reach
covered with comini-ary stores and plenty
of boats waiting to di-gorce more was
astonishcd, too, To notice what a trcmen-
doas change had taken place III public
sentiment during one short month. Thir-
tv days ago, my bower, this place was filed
with soldiers who swore by JEFF Davis, and
How-~ould yon believe it it?-every man
you meet Is son Of gun, dressed IN blue,
and thinks Abe Lincoln is boss o; the con-
cern. This IS a curious fact, and ! am
golnG to I'D row to sleep upon IL
\ Ireary wsel, Of :ever has Ella seL, my
bower, since nay daily .iuaraal Of events
was toaehed. The quick aud constant
rusk Of the hot blood through my veins
has left me-, in the largu1ge Of klubs,
" powerful weak. IL the intervals of he
l:.Um ! have caught sight Of female
figure, escaping from my room, ard know
that some Ininister!ag angel of tL- female
s.yla of architecture has teen attending
me IN nv illness Gei bR,.s tie ss7n,qa !
asked who my fair physician wss Eo>
body seemed to know. The fDliowil, lit
tie note came With the last package OF
phys;c sent me in charge of kiubs
A-a IIartz wishes to G1no" his .e'llal-
nurse : name. 1t ayails i.ti.e suffice il
iL>L .ac has brother asl hat q husband
IN the army Who have needed and may
ac2,u The ,n.Hiz.rition of tender hands
/ have, bat performed my duty, aai Dc not
wi,h to ba known.
Saoull LIS met he: eye, M b7v~r, !
want he 10 kuov tAat IA uag;l feels his
Ia... ,t words IL express his G<sp graft,
tuda and on4y regrets taat he siId n't see
her face, that Ler ieatIes might have
been er-raycn upon lis Leart until the
death aa,-l should have scratched i out
viii. hi. scgthr blade
Left VIck -tsury on the steamboat IlJuc,
with about six hundred companions in
misery Upon parole not u escape, had
the freedom of the boat, ana gratefully
aeknowlcdg grd the courtesy and Kindness
of Cape McGiuui~, and al! the other Off
GERS OF the steamer Reached the height
Of Cairo. took the railroad aud ran
through the States Of Illinois. Indiana aud
Ohio, faster shan you can 90 from patriot
ic jackson to Meridian | wish you would
grite 20 oil Blizzard, my bower, auG
' m s II ili A7} laaA.Etz z. < EfaSA!Sd ~ an
take II, ac-o-s the bay t. Johns3n's IA
NOUS i.}s. uhere | viii meet about
thousand of the fi 1Ltcous. They are to
hive ne there. u,y bower, auI | VIII write
ven cfsru-if they viii let El- Yours, ss
.Er q can 50. AsA tAETZ.
Sandusky, August, 1853.