The Abingdon Virginian. [volume] (Abingdon [Va.]) 1849-1883, 1863-02-27
No. At.
Feeling I'm the Yankee Armyl,s


! The Providence, .Post1 prints extracts
in the army Of the Potomac, (which are very
significant to say the least Of them One Of
the writer's, who has been coDnected with the
army of the Potomac almost from it's organi-.
cation, and who, the Post" says. has never
DEAR c.: 81 am sick Of this war-L-so
sick that do not care upon what terms it 10
settled. ] hayeseen thousands of men lying
.mangled OF, fifteen or sixteen. diferept battle
felds-all for nothing. Wives, sisters, mo-
Tiers, ana children losing their husbands,
brothers. sons and sfathers- all for pothing
For here,we have been fighting over a year
and q, halt, and we have not gained one point.
We have lived, and are now living, on nine Or
ten Crackers, piece Of raw pork, and some
miserable 9copperas- water called coffee, per
day, all to gil the pockets Of ilotsof thieves,
/. who are trying to make ell they can out ,of
the people and the government. The soldiers
are all discouraged, and will not light as they
would once On the Peninsula All we hear
from Washington ID. the nigger, the
black, filthy niggeb One Niger is thought
more of than twenty white men who have left
home and all that is worth living for, to come
and lay down their lives, If need be, to save
their country, while the leaders are doing
their, utmost % ruin II. i 1t is not because we
can't beat the rebels, that the war is not,oyer
BY this time; for we can beat them But 10
e because the government is too busy think
ing Of the niger, to see that the mon Gre
where they ought to be when they are want
ed. You must not set me down as q groylers
i have good reason for my growing Almost
every man in the army thinks as do. IF
JOB had served in the army Of the Potomac;
he would have sinned, and most fe3rfully toos
The following extract is from a letter writ
ten on the 22d of December, near Falmouth,
by member Of one Of the regiments raised $
in 1862. The writer has been known for 'Se-
veraI years in theavillage Of WoonSocket q
an dstire Republican politician. and was yom
distributor at the polls, at the last town meet
ing which he attended:
Z HAD ! known as much Of the Manage
ment' Of things Six months ago as know
now, fifty yoke Of soxen, could not nave drawn.
me ont here. It is all did political hum
bug, and got up to make Offices for lazy Office
seekers: / wish the leaders were as far the
other side IF pufkatosy as they are shisside.,
HAds turned out t. BE- an abolition acdr, and
ainety.asine soldiers ostt one hundred say .
that If The abozitiossists are going to carry on
ne soar, They sci5 lace TO ga a neac aray.4--;
They say they came.oGt here 70 fight for the
Union, and not for q pack of did niggers.---
These niggers are lazy and dirty;i they, will
lie and steal and they ore sancy, where they
dare to be. If soldier touches an officers
niger, he will get courtrnartialed and Lose
a months pay. A niger is Thought more Of !
by the government than the soldiers are. -
They get as much or more TO eat, get as much !.
pay, and don't have to fight any A curse on
such things! 7 Rope something viii turn up
before. tomorrow night that viii settle this
war. We got whipped. at Fredericksburg,
and zoe shall get a1ipped eUery tsae zoe tight III
Virgsnial I don't think the North isirighf
any more than the South, "5's FaA -