The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-11-12
Editorial COsYespondeNce.

.. coined BY officers and privates ~ onl,
soldiers can welcome their friends.
their tables are not IS large and as richl,
laden as We find in some refined societies
their hearts are larger and better. Col
Wilds and Major Wright gave us bertt
in their tent and we have free range o.
the camp for our meals. Ifsoldiers fare
as far as food is concerned, was never
any worse than it is here now, there
would be no reason to complain on that
score. We have, beside the usual ra-
tions, fresh beet, pork, mutton, chickens,
geese, ducks, possum, honey and swee,
potatoes. Beef and sweet potatoes are
in almost inexhsustsble quantities aud
Of the very best quality. Up to and on
the day Of our arrival the men were al.
lowed to forage, every man for himself,
| and the quantities Of chickens and the
like that were brought in were sstonish.
ing, but on the next day a guard was
stationed around the camp and none were
allowed egress. We retired on the night
Of the 9th expecting to spend the oe.s
day like unto that, but we learned some
Of the uncertainties Of army life. About
midnight an "orderly" came to the head.
quarters Of the regiment with an order
to be ready to march at 7 o'clock the
next morning. At the reve.He was
beat and the soldiers lazily turned over,
wondering what was up that they we're
called thus early, but when they heard
Major Wright call out, "Roll out boys"
they knew that marching would be the
business Of the day.
! Before I o'cloch the coffee was boiled
and drank and breakfast eat, the tents,
what few there were, and blankets we're
rolled up, and all were ready for the
march, and they did not have long to
wait, but soon started on the road for
New Iberia. We passed several large
plantations with the fine "big house /"
and the usual collection Of negro huts,
which generally looked very neat, being
sided up and white. washed inside and
out, but there were some that looked
otherwise. AS we entered New Iberia
the Major asked the band to give the cit
izens a little Yankee music, and they
gave it, "John Brown" included. We
were surprised to find this song such an
universal favorite. On the steamboat, in
the camp, and everywhere almost, you
could hear the familiar words. The cit
liens gazed with eyes wide open, and
looked as though some other cou pany
"vuid b. fun as agreeable as ours. The
town and country, thence to Vermilion.
vile is settled by c,eoles, descendants of
tho old French settlers, and they arc not
a very enterprising class of community.
A' u'A We at[lVeu at NermllllOn
Bayou, about two miles from Vermillion-
vile, and went into camp. Soon the
tents were pitched and the fires lighted
in grove of live oaks which were boun.
tlfully festooned with beautiful gray
moss. The effect was splendid 1t looked
like some grand old Gothic Cathedral
The country over which we travelled re-.
minded US forcibly Of our Iowa prairies,
although it is not quite as rolling, and
the soil is not so light. A large portion
OF the land had been cultivated and then
thrown out to the commons. The Tecbe
country is called, "The garden of Louis.
'ana,' and We can hardly conceive of q
country that would be more fruitful I'M
der the hands of an enterprising, free
people. The orange grows here to per.
fecsron, and the banana thrives very we'll,
but cane is the staple. This year, as far
as we could learn, there was no cane
grown, and we heard of only one field Of
cotton, the crop from which we saw, I'm.
ginned. There is still a good deal Of
sugar and molasses in the various mill:
along tho bayou, and our boys found
some of it. The only crops raised this
year arc corn and sweet potatoes. Coco
crops of corn are rsised. The oath wer,
camped, when We found them, along sid,
of what had been cornfield and some O.
the green stalks were still standing, W
were just two days too late for the roast
ing ears.
On rising on the morning of the lltb,
which was Sunday, we found that a large
barn which We had noticed the night
before, had entirely disappeared, not a
shinglc or stick was to be seen-all had