Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1863-07-14
Correspondence Of the Star 4 Chronicle.

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MILL DALE, Miss, June 20.
The Geography says, "ths summers il
Mississippi are very bot" The Geogrs
ply is . veracious chronicle, % we bsv
bad verified to Us during tho last few day
that We have been here. l was down b,
the road yesterday. Tho dust wss at leas
four to six inches, aud fas - il could be
rising 10 clouds At the slightest agitation
The 45,b Poun's caus along, looking q
if they we're ready to melt, ploddiut
wearily, silent except to curse the hea
aud dust. They had just arrived. Oul
friends arc within stoue.throw Of u, bu
nobody s,irs out except on eOmpulsion
Last night, about one o'clock, they com
mencsd . terrific csunonade, down q
Vicksburg, aud it was kept up without
iutsrmission until about ten o'clock TO-
day. Though We we're eight miles of, il
wakeued u, oil Up, but We have heard
neither the OCCASION nor the upshOs. A
parcel Of prisoners were sent of from here
yesterday, among them . Major. Hs said
that they could hold out bu. few days,
- there vas nothing to cat in there.
Since ten o'clock, 70 have Mt heard gun
fred.
1t is said that Davis promised Q buudrsd
thousand men il they would hold on,
three weeks. They have done more than
that, but We have seen no intimstion Of
the threatened cloud. We are here in
complete order. Our ambulance and other
trains arc here, and nothing is wanting to
our corps.
1t used to DO . question. With some Of
10 ct home, whether We should marry
until We we're rich. Our life in the army
has dsmopstrs.ed the nou- necessity of it.
l have lived, With two others, for two
months and more, with no other house
than tent fly. open at both ends, put up
on sticks cut from the wood, and . email
ditch, ten minutes work, dug around it,
.od, ss times, eat oil could within my
reach, and not sutfer-could not 90 beyond
twenty or thirty cents day, coffee and tee
into the bargain, but at government prices,
Ind in . country robbed Of everything.
Il only shows what . man can get along
N, and anything above that is luxury.
)ne can appreciate the beauties of gypsy
ifs. Free aud healthy, aud BY no means
have three blankets, . half
lozen cups and saucers, half dozen knives
nd forks, two tin plates, . coffee pot, stew
an and frying pan, wooden bucket and
tin cup, three towels and . smoke pipe
and hsvo found them sufficient for my.
elf and two companions, and have enter.
aimed all the friends that come to see me. |
think / can carry them homs with me,
I'd when can give the assurance that
hey are all that is necessary for living, l
hould think could have no difficulty, on
lat score, Of finding companion for life.
mean this IS sly advertisement.
One Of The finest things l have seen is
10 magnolia-growiDg to the height Of
'ty to seventy feet, with its resplendent
'ameled green leaf, its large white flower
rgor than . pint tiu-cup, giving to tho
+ . most delicious odor. Along the
Mississippi river, the cotton wood is most
xuriant. With . bright green leaf, .
oss between our aspen and poplar, the
oodPis very much like what ws call bal
N, and its growth is very rapid. 1t
ows high, tall and straight. Its wood
very light and brittle.
Up here on the hill, amid the careless
sggling underground Of timber, is very ,
stty imitation marble shaft, marking
e grave of . little girl three years old.
'ouRd are the graves OF reDeIs, Win
Is bead. boards marked with lead pencil
from different regiments Of Louisiana 8
Mississippi. ! could not help think ,
Of what . vast graveyard We have .
de Of our country, Every hillside, Il
ny valley, mountain tops and sea shores, d
the resting places Of those from every {,
'ts and country, friend and foe.
Dur own regiment is singularly healthy.
one has died Q natural death since h
tober last, almost nine months. We 4
= congratulate ourselves on the fall Of i,
;ksburg the ssuponads has commenced :,
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