Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1863-09-08
From a Freedman In Louisiana.
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WAsHiNGToS, " U, Aug. ~, %.
To he Editc' Of the \. Y. Evening Post:
Il send you letter, which has much
pleased me, and may interest others. The
writer Of it, is only one of thousands who,
among the millions ofiguorant and degra-
ded negro slaves, are intelligent, earnest,
Christian men, freed By our liberatiug ar
mics, and have rallied under the starry
hng to fight for their own and their
country's freedom. Three years ago, the
father and mother of this man and his
mother, were permitted to buy themselves
from their owners, in Richmond. After
their departure, north, the three young
men-who had been brought up as mill
ers, and we're active intelligent fellows
were sold to the far South, lest they should
become uneasy and excited, and attempt
TO run away from their master (whom of
course, they "loved devotediy') and to
rcj1in 10 freedom their mother and father
(fOr whom, being "mere brutes,' they could
have no natural afec,ion.) Their trials
were sore. They are now United
States soldiers. l think any one with a
heart, or even an average mind, who will
read the simple and brave but touching
words which follow, can not fail to discov-
er the spring from which gush such noble
dad, h. ,rorII
Miliken's bend, Port Hudson, and Fort
Wagner. But the letter tells its own
story best. J.H.
"BAToN ROUGE, La, July IS, '63.
"Dear Father: take this opportunity
of ritin you Few lines to inform you and
all the rest of the family that we are all
Well at present and hope this few lines
will find you all the sam. 1t has been
some time sence we have herd from you,
but hope now that we shall hear from
one mother oftner low sence we are free
l thank God that We are all our own
men now. | am happy to say to you that
we are all three living yet, and my wife
also. am in the army, and James and
William also, and my Wife she cooks and
washes for our Cornorl and Mager. We
are all 10 La yet, We are solgers, and our
regiment is the La. Nativ Cards. / am
the Oediy Sargent in the first company,
that is Co. A., and Brother James is a
sargent 10 the same company. Brother
William is Coprill in Co. g.
ave have been blest, among a tbouson
men, that We have not been sick onto
deth. We have been sick, but not very
bad. Our regiment is now holding fort
William, in the town of Baton Rouge. 1t
was som time in New Orleans tha. We
s'ade, and We viseted the old Church, and .
their We got quanted With Brother Mel
son Sanders. lie is the pastor Of that
church. Their We saw Brother Tim Stues
decon Of the same church. We saw
also many Of The otter brethren that came
from Richmond. We have meetings 10
our regemeut oftcb, and also as We are
toigers in the United States, We are
s,lll trying to be solgers for Jesus Cris;.
Ever sence We have been sold from Rich
mond, We havesput our trnst ip God, be-
lievng that be would bring US throu
Conkers and more than Conkers.
"Pleas tel aunt II. that the day has
broke, and the long praide for time is com I
new, and q Cd has heard the prayers that +
you usto pray when We was si,in in the
Corners of the fire side and was afraid to
look up. Pleas ask sister b. is she and .
sister L. and coson A. trying to help Us
all to thauk God for his blessen that he
has berstode on US. We have not heard /
from att NJ. but once sence We have been :
Enlisted. She was well at that time, but !
was grieving about uncle James. We
heard from her through, We saw him in I
New Orleans. Pleas tell an. r. that Eli
"a sends her best love to her and you all
4 the children, and she must Kiss them
for u.s. We thank God for his kinest to
US ir regard Of our children. We had
three, tu, God saw fit to take them from
us, and We thank him for his goodness.
We have been tbrou some nifty hard ship
sence we left Richmond. We did have a
very hard master, but thank God, he took
us away from him and now We can pro-
claim freedom.
"Peas give my love to brother Tayler,
and tel him that we three is solgers in the
United States for three years. We joined
on the 81 Of Janary. James and William
j1ined about the same time | gets S2l
per month, and brother James gets SIS
per month. Brother William be gets Sl3
per month. We haved hope to tel you a
bout the War, but | cant tel you all now.
Now must com to a Close. Pleas rite
soon and let US her from you all, aid you
ancer this You Derect your letters to
Cornorl Cbarls. ". Drew, Regement La
Native Cards.
$50 now must bid you all Good by
remain your true son.
WELLINGTON HAWKINS.
"P. S. The first opportunity that we
get We will all send you our Degoritips."
bH- Men of this class, with the wives
and children oow really THEIR OWN for
the FIRST time in their lives, are the objects
for which the association is laboring, that
is referred to in the following notice
rS7Rrv. VIM. Bradley, Agent Of the Ma
rnnal Frecdman's Relief Association, Will