Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-11-18
FROM THE nth REGIMENT.
FoRT SLEMNER, d. q.
November 18th, 1868. \


Mr.. EDITOR AS business isSpot very
driving to day / will write you few lines
to let you know that am still tough as
an ebony stick, fat as any porker, and
! weigh as much as anybody else that don't
weigh any more than 1 do, 1870, the
i, most that | ever weighed in my life.
The regiment is healthier now than it ever
has been before since its organization.
Battery F, has only one man in hospital.
Joseph B. Skinner from Barton. was car
ried there last Sunday morning threatened
with bilious fever. Joe never has been
off duty but days before, since he enlist
ed. always right on his duty. am sorry
to have him sick now for he is my bunk
mate, and 1 sleep few shivefs cooler
alone than when had him to keep my
back warm.
l went out on picket last Saturday
morning, the first time | have been out
since the Sd of July. 1t was clear. cold
day, the wind swayed the tops Of the
"Old Kings of the forest to and fro, their
bodies crcaking out fearful " Oooed-e ar 1"
The Old Turkey Buzzards found it I'M.
common hard sailing toward the north
pole and there we sat all day on an old
log broiling our pork in the blaze, and
eating it directly after. Ones coffee mill
is peculiarly kind of craving for some
thing to grind when he is on Picket. Four
of US found place for four haversacks of
army provisions. A haversack full. and
a canteen of water makes two layings in
IA mans stomach. We licked our chops
and watched for the relief, which was
along about o'clock the next morning
We went into camp and found the sun
shining, and everything looking lovely as
June. Going on picket here is not much
like down front, where they 60 and stay
two or three weeks, and get so hungry
they catch rats by the peck measure full,
just whack their heads on stone, and as
the Indian said Eat en-. godd'' like so
many oyters Then lie down in mud
puddle with their heads on q stone and
hum the devils dream until they hum
themselves perhaps into their last sleep,
for there they often wake up and find
themselves dead. The 18th regiment
has never seen any such times yet. But
because we never have, is no sign we never
shall Is-
The invalid corps may some day take
possession of these Notifications around
Washington and we be hustled into active
service. where we can have a chance to
roar with our heavy artillery. We know
nothing about the horrors of war, know
nothing of what it is to be swallowed up
in the fire. smoke, thunder, and lightning
Of death, where they often go in an
honest man. and come out" no man at all, "
or perhaps with a les and canteen gone or
a jaw hanging down, and hole in the
check. 'rhem's the places where some of
your Northern Nebraska copperheads have
get got to look out or :" out comes your
eye out. Father Abraham's voice is still
heard to say" Three hundred Thousand
more When he says come. come you
must. or say amen to your country. City
resistance and foolish peace makers are of
no use at all. n. .Ha
- Then come along, don't be alarmed
Uncle Sam is rich enough to give you all farm.
The regiment was paid off day before
yesterday. Battery F. went over in the
morning and was the first battery paid.
AS each man came out Of the Colonel s
tent folding up his twenty six dollars, his
looks said as much as Who would mt
leave his home and serve Uncle Samuel
The next night some thief wanting to
practice his 'rascality, and increase his
ganderOsity, relieved Hollis Bagley Of
Battery L, of "a dollars in greenbacks.
The regiment is very busy just now build.
ing batteries and covered ways. Webave
our stents every day, and go out early and
work hard until 10 or Ii o'clock. By
this time our stent is done and we 90 to
the barracks AID enjoy ourselves in the
best possible manner until roll call. Ser.
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