The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-07-04

FROM CoRINTH.-A soldier Ga wears of
age, private in Gen. Dodge'S command,
at Corinth, thus writes to j. G.. Jordan, Of
this county:
am not going to write a history OF all
we have gone through. AT best a soldiers
life is hard enough, but, sir, when we are
undergoing all these privations, to reflect
that we have an enemy in our rear that is
prolonging this war and abusing the Ad-
ministration, and villitying the soldiers, is
more than we can stand, and more than we
soiU stand. 1 mean the Copperheads of the
North. If they only knew the feelings of
the soldiers toward them, they would sure
ly lie low. ! have heard the most rabid
pro-slavery Democrats Il mean those that
were SO when they came into the army. but
there is not many proslavery men here
now. They are very hard to find, SAY they
would rather kill Copperhead than a
Southern rebel. They are despised here
by all.
When we first came to Corinth, we were
still on half rations; for some time we saw
pretty hard times when we first got in
tents. We have now got our cabins done,
and are living in them. Ours are not ten
anted, from the fact that we are all here
guarding correll. AS l said before, we
are pleasantly situated here. We are
camped on the farm of a methodist man,
who processes to De Union man. He has
suffered severely. He had five hundred
acres of land in cultivation, and thirty-five
negroes. He says that unless Abraham
Lincoln gives him back his negroes, he
will have to support him. My opinion is
that there is not many of the natives here
abouts that are loyal. l have seen q great
MANY from the broken parts of Alabama
that are truly loyal. There is at Glendale
a regiment of sharpshooters from Alabama.
Almost all of them are not only good Union
men. but anti-slavery. The negroes are
all. or nearly so, loyal, and are willing to
firht. About one-half mile from Corinth
is q negro correll, containing good MANY
thousands. They are organizing into regi-
ments. The LIST Alabama regiment is full.
They make noble appearance, dressed in
uniform, and are learning very fast, and I
have no doubt they will fight well. This cor
rell that was speaking about is being aug
neuted daily by negroes from surround
ing States. The most interesting sight that
I have seen is their schools. 1t is astonish
ing how fast they learn i frequently WIS.,
it their schools, which are near the correll.
There are about three hundred children
going to school. The schools are managed
by missionaries. A Mr.. Pierce has the
control. His wife is one of the teachers,
and has in her room about SO scholars. so
you see she has hard time. Such is their
attachment to their books, that nearly all
the time they have them in their hands.
was over there last Sabbath week. had
not been there for two weeks. Mrs. Pierce
called my attention, or asked me if j did
not remember certain interesting little
girl that took an active part in singing in
the opening of the school. She told me the
little girl, since / was there, had slekened
and died. Her dying request was that her
books be buried with her.
Slavery is now doomed, let the, war go as
Il may. GEoRG7 Alley
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