Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1863-10-06
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A Soldier s Letter.-No, Al.

i,Mp NEAR CULPEPPER COURT House, Va,
Sept. 2jlh, 1868.
1plroR FREEMAN We are once more back
sgsn with the Army Of the Potomac in our accus-
lon. ed place, and doing our accustomed duties.
on recall from New York was rather sudden and
IN. xpected. The draft to be sure had been ao-
con- 2i,hed, but the men had not been taken away,
snd then was when the trouble might be expected
nd @ draft was to be resisted at all. Our serv-
"a would then be needed II ever. But the order
canre for Us to return. Meade was contemplating
anadyance, and no doubt felt keenly the weakness
ofh., army while we were away. The rebels
were sending away troops to swallow Rosecran',
and now was the golden moment to strike tor
Richmond Bot what could the Army OF the Po-
tomac do without its Vermont brgadep We
sayed il from destruction 10 one campaign, and
Gen Meade is not so iool.hardy as to risk anoth-
er while his main dependence was absent so IN
all haste we we're recalled to the army, leaving
our dear friends the copperheads, to work out their
own destruction. Well we are here, but fear the
solden moment is lost. The celebrated eight
ayis ration order is in full force aud we are IL
able to move at any time. We may be ordered
d towards Richmond and then-Heayen save the
uatk-may have to sksdaddIe back again. Our
sle awake foes will have whipped the Tennessee
amy and be back here ready to whip US before
se are half prepared for our punishment. II would
u no more than we deserve for our proyerbial re-
n ,,ness. Should it turn out so, the North ought
ID III in sackcloth and ashes and count il an honor
% kiss the dust from JEFF Davis feet. They ought
% be excluded forever from the family OF nations
a unworthy the sacred trust The poorest schol-
a can't help seeing that il the North would only
d. now like lion conscious Of his strength we
M hit smash the Confederacy ell to atoms 10 a
n.y. shor, time But instead Of that the North
b gs back, only doing out few miserable con-
erpis, or substitutes rather, now and then when
Aey can't help it, who are more trouble to us than
hey are worth, aud whose courage consists chiefly
ii darinr~o desert. The rebels themselves shame
o., and compel our very respect by their dogget
perseverance. They can call every man into lh'
army, and it does not seem to require large por'
iiou Of their army to enforce their conscriplion
They work to win we work because we are
obliged to. 1t is more respectable to be liv'
sorker on the wrong side, than drone on th'
fght side. But we have not andwnced yet, so o
course we are safe at present, and while we ar
awaiting orders will give brief account, in m
bomely way, of our journey here from New York
We left Poughkeepsie Sunday, the 18th inst
at noon, in the KniCkerbocker, and stopped tha
hight in New York harbor. Wewere transferre
from the kuickerbocker TO another stesmboa
ehose name have forgotten, which took us III
paxt day to South Amboy, on the Jersey coa'
Some thirty miles from New York city. At th
latter place we got aboard the cars and came b
Railroad to Washington, The latest style OF so
aiers are simply freight cars with boards proppe
np for seats. For windows, we had the benefit
two side doors to begin with, but long before OF
hourney was concluded we had plenty OF ventil
tion, owing principally to the energetic use of Il
lbutt end of somebody's gun-stock on the boar'
at different places on the sides of the car. Fac
car was filed as full il would hold Of men, kna
sacks and ratiOus, huddled in together promise
ously. 1t took shrewd genius TO identity hlr
self 10 that place.
1t was near midnight when we got to Philad'
phO. At the Cooper Shop Volunteer Reire'
ment Saloon we found a glorious supper rea
prepared expressly for US. Bread Of an excelle
quality, butter and cheese, pickles, hot coffee, a
all that hungry soldier need ask. 1t was I
soldiers living at all; it was good enough for
FIRST class hotel This is the first place oi
KIM that has been opened since the war bro
out, and doubt il any more modern, can surp
it. It came just in lime, for we were both til
and hungry, and we could not possibly comp
ourselves to hard.tack and pork so soon after le
ing Poughkeepsie, aud this was all that was ?
yided us. We had tasted with wonderful patie
TIL then. imagine the proprietors Of that 81
have no insignificant ideas Of our capacity to
pose Of good food when we can getii. Supper o'
we formed into line again outside, where we
stacked our guns, and giving three hearty che
for our reception, we started on our way shfo'