Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1863-05-05

From the 10Th Vt Regiment.

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MIR EDITOR Times are rather dull with the
10th Vermont this spring but the Regiment
having made move Of about two and half
miles, | think can afford to make it the basis
Of few lines to your readers.
About midnight, Saturday, April II, our
Brigade received orders 10 he ready to march
&" to the Geld by the 18th, with seven days ra-
tons-three day, cooked in the hayersaok,
and four to be transported, The 18th came,
but with it no executionary march,' as we
had anticipated On tho l4lh the 39th Mass
were ordered to Washington, and started at . A..
NJ, IN a drenchng rain-stom Saturday morn
ing, April 18Th, our Regiment was ordered to
It's present loouon, a gentle elevation Of mead.
ow land about o0e mile from the village Of
Poolesyille. Arrives here We found Brigade
Headquarters established in the same field
where we were to camp, and portions Of the
23i Maine and II y. Il. regiments, one com
pany Of the Oh Michigan cavalry, two com
panles OF SCOTS 800 and the 10Th Mass. Bat
terry having alighted IN tm spare corners Of the
said field, it presented an aspect decidedly moro
military than anything Gle we had seen since
We left Camp Chase, Arlington Heights, last
September. Monday the 27th the 18th N.
II. also received marching rders and followed
the Both Mass to Washington, whore, I under
stand, they are both doing patrol duty. A day
or two since we were apprIad that the order to
tho front still remains il ore, and that tho
we probably should not be AIled upon, yet we
must be ready to move at q minutes notice
For comforts sake, hope re may remain here,
for having SINCE their mueh, proyed unres-
trlcted y upon the lumber accumulated by the
l4th and 3Jth during the winter, and incor
poEatcd the same into ou summer residences,
we arc all rejoicing iu the possession Of wooden
palaces Of the most Ie ,al style
Four companies Of the 10Th still remain at
the old posts on the ri7er-Co. Z, at Conrad's
Ferry, Co. G. at Whites Ford, and Cos + and
D, at Monoclcy
As regards the health and general appear
auce Of Tie regiment think am warranted
in stating tha, neither were ever better than ot
present lie b5y-, lr&h from their four
months in comfortable winter quarters, are
&" fat and happy, and daily manifest their .ly
in being released from the long rule Of King
, Maryland mud by hearty indulgence in base
bail, pitching qIoits, ami other athletic games
The Regimentll Hospital contains but about
{ half dozen patients, aud on pleasant days,
these all 60 out for exercise, leayingit entirely
empty The six companies now here drilled
together, the first time for over four months, a
few days since, and never before have seen
them execute battalion movements with such
grace and precision Their hne-of-battle, as
they marched, could no, have been improved by
surveyor,
; Col. Jewett still continues 10 command Of
the Brigade, but it is ramorei that Brig Gen.
Marston, late Colonel of the 2nd n. H., has
been assigned this Brigade also, that the 18th
+ n II will return to the Brigade with him.
The boys are all hopeful and almost unani-
m0usly Of the opinion that the ensuing sum
mer will " wind up the war-aot in aoopper-
{ head coil, but in the sabeotion of traitors,
North and South They dom take much
stock in A Wards assertion that the god
4 dess Of liberty has gone out doing house.work
at dollar and a halt week, but believe that
she still rresidos over the dtstiuies Of Colombia
the infant republic Of the western world, II
Artemas statement should prove correct, how.
ever, We should look for the announcement Of
her further degradation in the shape Of letter
in the columns OF the Argus, bcst5wing gener
y Gus doses Of soft soap up,n its editor, congratu.
! latng him upon the pcrsistency Of his attempt.
. to aid and comfort armed traitors, and finally
/ rcndaring her FIRST weeks wages as year,
. subscription for his vile sheet
Well, the word Argus has at length slipped
my humble pen, as have been FOR q long tim,
I fearful it woull-tea because | suspece,
g that when it did | might, in my Indignation
e write that which you, Mr.. Elitor,-sincerel,
il as you might be convinced OF its truthfulness-
would consider it unwiso to publish. But
e will eudcayor to bottle my wrath and conten
g myself with asking what has become of thos
gentlemen who addressed the war meeting hel,
j. at the Village Hall, in Montpelier, last July
d for the purpose of Obtaining recruits for tn
n 10Th Vermont regiment? Where is the on
q whose thirst for blood could not be satiated bu
;. with the lives of at least tea rebels on
d would have supposed, in listening to their de
d nuncations of everything reasonable, tAa
they themselves, were almost willing to 60 81
4 hundred miles from their comfortable homes
e shoulder their knapsacks and rifles, and live o
d ea.meat and hard-tack, to contribul
their mite towards the suppression OF this re
N bellion, and still they permit sheet to be pull
5. hshed in Montpelier, The Capitol Of Vermont
YES. and aid it ,oah Their patronage, too
which, if it were issued within the precincts
Montgomery County, Maryland (poor, disloy
al, euerrilla-ridden Maryland y would speedil
elicit visit from Jewotts Brigade, who woul
us pi the type, ditto the press and compel Mr. p,
as itor C), at the point of the bayonct, to tat
P an oath of alegancc-ao' only to the Unite
" States Government but to Abraham Incoll
It, its worthy administrator. Is Montpelier dca,
or only sleeping
y Will some one enlighten
n Your p--r?
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