Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1863-07-16
ArInT COrresnOndence.
New MADR1D, Mo-, July 2d 1856;

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! Ed. ADvERTIsER: The 25th Regiment
Missouri Volunteers, having. At last APP
parentlY found temporary local habita-
tion,s. lake. the liberty through your
paper of letting our friends know the
state of our pulse, and our condition and
prospects. On the 18th day of Juue we
left St. Joseph on the good steamer
Fanny Ogden, and after more than the
usual amount of stops detentions and de-
lays, we arrived at ST. Louis on the 23d |,
where we remained only long onough-to
remove our baggage and men from the
Fanny Ogden to the Imperial. and leav-
ing the same day we arrived at this
place on the 25th of June.
New Madrid, New Madrid Co. Mis-
souri,, is small town composed of scat
tered frame houses, and is about the size
Of the village of. Sonora, Atchison Co.
Mo-, which il also resembles in appear
ance and location. 1t is situated upon a
wide bottom upon the ilfFississiipFii sus--
rounded BY woods and swamps. The
water is bad, the best water which can
be obtained, being from the Mississippi
river, and the location of our camps ap-
pears unhealthy, how our boys will get
along here remains to be tested. The
swamps in this region some fifty or sixty
miles back are said to be infested with
guerillas, but they are reported to be so
hidden in the morases that they are near
ly inaccessible. 1t is reported that Gen.
Davidson with the army of S. E. Mo-,
have lately had brush with Price and
Marmaduke near Bloomfield Mo. about
fifty miles from this place, aud routed
them completely, and are now on their
march for this place. How long we
shall remain here, cannot even guess,
but it is generally supposed that we shall
stay here two or three months, as post
is to be established and Notifications put
up at this point. EThis was formerly the
theater of jeff. Thoaipson's military
operations: cannon balls, fragments of
bomb shells and other implements Of war
and evidence of its existence are to be
found scattered in every direction. In
digging a trench yesterday in the forli-
fcations, Que of the boys disturbed the
remains of an individual clad in butter
nut, who undoubtedly, to use the Ian
guage Of the Ethiopian hymns.
aDied on the field of battle,
Glory in bis sou.''
Our company had an unsuccessful
scout yesterday, of over twenty miles,
without having the happiness, as orpheus
E.C-sKerr would sey, Of engaging any
confederacies."
Our time, when the little formalities
of drill, guard and fatigue duty are got
over, is principally devoted to fishing,
swimming and laying in the shade; and
take it on an average we are enjoying as
much "otium cum digritate" as poor
devil of a private, whose services are
worth but thirteen dollars a month, can
be expected to, when every brainless dis
gusting snob, is swelling with the Inn
mense importance of a second lutenancy.
They are raising . colOred regiment
here, and hereabouts and have strong.
notion to apply for commission; the on-
| ly objection l have, which seems to me
to be insurmountable, is that the super
lative contempt with which | regard the
whole shoulder strap aristocracy forbids
me to associate with them, and more
especially to merge the manly indepen-
denee / feel as a corporal, in the gas
eOus imitation and arrogance incident up
on minor military hoiiors, though amel-
iorated and refined BY association with
the humble EthiopiarG
would love occasionally to get q pa
per from you, as eueh number, coming