The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-05-21
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Extensive fields are laying untitled, and
MANY of the houses unoceupied. = Inc grow
ing grass, and opening flowers were abundant
and astnre seemed to begsmiliug in spite of
the desolatiops ard sorrows, that bloody
war was ibficting. At Warrenton junction,
We saw, quite a number Of dead horses, that
marked the scene Of the late bloody sklrmlsh
there. Our soldiers had buried the remains
of the famous rebel spy but they left no mark
to preserve the memory of the spot, leaving
him to slumber in his unknown grave.
MANY soldiers have been buried through this
section, as we noticed marks and slabs thai
for the present indicate the resting place OF
their remains. Every train from this section
brings in more Or less of the class known as
contrabands. They are going out from the
land of their slavery, but they seem rot to
know whittier they are bound !; only they have
hope in God and our army, that better des-
tipv awaits them God we doubt not, will
care for them, for amid the sorrows of thor
bondage many Of them have learned to cast
their cares, burdens and sorrows upon him,
and the present condition of our country,
shows that God is not unmindful of them.
Some of John Minor Bolts slaves, have
passed from his jurisdiction into the camp of
the 18th Regiment. He would like to have
them returned, and hopes even if they could
remain until he could consult with the Presl-
dent, that =" Old Abe" would do something to
aid him in securing his human property. But
we fancy that the President would point this
suffering friend Of the Union, to his famous
emancipation procla nation, for an answer.
There is majesty in the thought, that those so
recently in Slavery, are now free and no man
has moral, or legal right to send them back
again to wear their letters. ..as.it.I.
Some have suggested to US, that out in this
section, is fine place to make Aboltionists
where white men shoot at US, and black men
peril their own lives to save ours They
cheerfully render us all the aid in their power,
and their statements are found to be remark
ably truthful and reliable They are certain
ly, as class, the best Union men now to be
tonnd in the South
With US the question of time is still greatly
agitated, and discussed Some are getting
rather loud in their talk, about doing no more
service here, after the tenth of next month.
1t is now understood that the Secretary Of
war, has decided that the time of service, of
the nine months troops, expires in each Regi-
ment, in nine months from the time the last
company, of each Regiment was mustered in.
to the United States service. All the COM
panies in this Regiment were mustered, on the
same day-the 23d of October 1862, there.
fore, our term of service will expire on the
23d of July, 1868. ..< .orr' ss7saJ 4
1t has been said that undue influence was
exerted, on the part of some selectmen, to in.
duce men to enlist by misstatement, as to the
expiration of the time. These facts have been
laid before the authorities, and they say, that
such statements, if made at all, were made in
direct violation of instructions from them, and
that the War Department cannot make an ex'
ceptony Us to time, in the Vermont nine months
troops over those of every other State on the
account of any unauthorized, statements of GER