Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1863-08-19
FROM THE GOTH REGIMENT.
Posr HrpsoN, La, July 81.

ln1 The county a. we passed. Confess To
great deal of disappointment at the
appearance OF things down here; IN
looking eramap Of the lower Msiss
ppi, you zee very liberal supply ot
names of towns on IL backs, ald natnr-
ally expect to find at least one house at
each pl &c where town - indicated
Tut gu gil. not bc able 10 tnd so much
is 4 pace " enc house has ever stood
ii he most Il them. Naricnten was
qn le q place, Grand Gull si,o, bnt not
near 70 lstge AS 1t onght TO have bcen,
considering that il is all old town, tut
We passed it almost without a suspicion
that there bad cyes been anything there
bnt some batteries. Natoncz, on the
NJ, ms. he fire place, judg NJ BY tie
the handsome houses IF when you catch
lAe metes' g.mpse IN passing. Under
the bill II is sh,bhy onongh, WITH u sfn-
gle except at the upper part Of tn
town, whele somebody has taken adyan-
Ia G OF tue sin4ulrly btok. surface 10
cut his L onnd mo all sorts OF lanclul
shapes, beng neatly tured aud lautel
with flowers aud spanish oaks and ever
green trees cnnonsty ptuncd, together
WITH matsIon which harmon us \ ell
with rs surroundings, present a picture
| whieh Is very unlq1cY beautiful. The
| rlver Il iiter.ly bla with negroes, who
hid assembled 10 see us pass. THE
people usually make gteat fuss when
they see us. bn, at Natchez they looked
Al Us with great apparent indiffence. |
tappeucd 10 be reading an old paper,
when we were passing the town IL
which Hound a derpatch, from somebody
giving all account Of "a tight there, aud
SAYING that the place wrs burnt, "unly
tvo houses leit standing.' Now, that
waen' true. Ttcrc may have loena bate
IAetc. don't know there was not one,
but I'll bet that il there wasa a.te, 1t
wasn't worth s"nding q dlNp.tch about
aud al sure that not a tlngic house was
burueT on the occaston Of II. But then
there Is N re than O. c officer in Tie
sert ice d tucle san who has happy
knach OF DONG very wotd,rul ihlu4s,
indeed, lin his dispatches.
We made most ot the disiance be-
tween Natchez ard Port Hudson by
nlghi, and don't know whether here
Is aoy cons dciable place between there
ana here, but J suspect that Nidalla.
laYon Sara, /, int Couple, ST. Francis
u II, 4 :, ale but tho names u - mans
~ dlnss me5eiy.
laere may be more than one house nj
Fort Iudeon, it 80 have not been
able to see II. have been told Tint
thcrc are tonr o. iiy but il never a.
mona tel 10 anything before the Wi,
"na has onlf acqn red an importance
Shca lie lebelliJb broke out, because o,
he l,ellit'es FIR togtiy NJ atl rded by
hirb, bold buff on tie river, and tha
'Xtremtlv broken Character OF the
ground IN IL rear. However, 1t now
possesses AN ii,loucsl Importance ~
hayteg been TIL, lat obst uvtlon Of this,
~ -avlgation' ot the Mis-. which, ur
sont ir'n tr,thrcnso generously ., n
"a n, about t~o aud hlt wears ago, +
aud Wi a hey have b.ra ever 5 nee ~ +
sireraJusl; s,rlvins ted priyc us If.
Ten Banks army lslargc compose /
ct nne men I's men, whose iime has /
EXPIRED, and they are beirg se,t home /
~ IA as his ~, an. Of M spostA,iou nj I
rii II, We are e.e To take lher poce-,
and although ncate bothered 10 death
10y geher orle 5, continual y reltt,ra-
uus n our ears tIat the labors Of All
g" q i've aud arduuns cAmpaigu" arc
even now upon - III bet we snail not
move lar from heIe uttiI tie weather is
cooler.
My rncipal reason for this faith I
wnich Is II ne is the great amount OF
SICKNESS now exls,tg IL this command,
oh On Was supernduceI by the cen taut
a or ard excessive ii, at IN tie itei CHI (
- 81 ok shurg, The VIE water We
Were obliged TO drink at lszoo Clty ana /
the fatigue oil the trut.es march 10 the
Bisek rlyer While the command Were 10
the \ 1900. In conseq uchcc OF 81. these
eau g o0i reg ment ha- bad Tor the isst
lev W, ks much anger SIX list thao
ever before, but AN GID to say that
sc'y few cssee aie really dangerous, aud |
most of the Sex are gelt ~ better +
Young stephen ] thompson OF Dsyen.
por', CO.. ID d,ed Of icser one day this
week. lie was good boy, aud very
much ked.
Bu', although our sick i is large, II
fails tar short OF the lists OF some OF the
o'her regimer's IN the command. The
81
sir handred unfit r duty Yoa see
they had lam at New Madua, and had .
never mode a march Tor done anything
SO than gairhon duty siuce they were
. ies ment, and as consequence, their
ranks were fail q bot very hardy men.
They came to Nicksburg over eight hun
dred strong and ambitious 10 make a
BIZ mark in tie only big thing they
were likely TO encounter, bur they
coull nj stand tho had NO, l. - ~