The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-01-14
REBEL WINTER CAMP Align.
Private Intelligence from the
Rebel Army.
Extracts from Captured Private Letter.
HEADQUARTERS, G. 8. ARMY NORTHERN J
1s-;' VIRGINIA, Dec. 81, 1868.

Extracts from q Captured Private hetter'
HEADQUARTERS, G. 8. ARMY NORTHERN !
f'-;' VIRGINIA, Dec. 81, 1868.
Ireceive your letters quite as regularly
as if thew were brought to me by Yankee
mailbag. Indeed, our mail communication
with Old Abe's dominions is most perfect
and reliable. We have news daily with 80
much precision as to time that much an
noyance is expressed if "the Northern
mailn is now and then two or three hours
behind the accustomed period of arrival
1t is a fact-which we have proved on sew
eral occasions through special flags of truce
designed for the purpose-that we very
frequently have Northern news in advance
of our neighbOrs across the little river near
our front and, what is better, We know as
much of the movements, numbers, out
goings and incomings of those same neigh
bors rs they do of themselves.
May tomorrow open happy year to
YOU. 1t will be year big with fate to our
dear Southern nation. We may be beaten
but cannot be conquered. Even now, when
the Yankee journals come to us overladen
with stories of our broken spirit, our desti-
titution, our pitiable sufferings from cold
and hunger, and our desire to crawl in un-
der the amnesty offered by most gracious
and generous Ale, there is an entertainment
prepated ON the eve of being served up that
will make the readers of the atoremen Toned
pretty stories believe quite sincerely that
all is not truth which is printed in Yankee
newspapers. Oh wish dare to write all
I know; and you are aware that AIN IN pc
sition to know great deal. But i3tterS
sometimes do miscarry or get into wrong
hands, and if mine were to 60 astray the
consequences would not be delectable. |
will say, however, that our grand old chief
has matured and is about carving to its
consummation, series OF man9uvres-and,
albeit, bloody battles, too combining stra-
tegy of SO brilliant nature, and results OF
so comprehensive and dehnitive character,
that the development thereof will startle
the Yankees as from a horrid dream. And
we have the means, in men and material, to
carry the plans out to the letter-notwith
standing that the hckspitte penwi pers of
tho great Yankee Journals have written our
gallant Southern armies down as naked,
starved, dispirlted and demoralzed Not
outstanding our ntercommunlcatlon has
bsen. effeetually destroyed, (Utde fankee
commentators on the results of AverllPs
raid, and it really was clever raid,) my
horse proudly carries ME every day through
the camps of the strongest and best equip
ped army the Confederacy has yet concen..
trated, and among them the 'graybacks
aud flashing eyes Of Longstreets noble vet
eran heroes This glorious army has work
to do which must and will irrevocably place
our beloved country in its proper and wen
earned place in the roll of nations, and the
work will BIZ well and faithfully done, and
while the year is young, very young.
Dear -, how many months have pass
since We metz Why, the months haverpen
ed into years. Shall We meet sgain2 Aye
and soon. The day cannot be, is not far off
when We shall embrace each other as Of
$ yore,. in Maryland-my Maryland; when
with lifted eyes and greatful hearts, in The
I, old homestead in Baltimore, beneath the
8 victorious cross of the free and recognized
South, we will return thanks to the Power
that gave us our triumph and our country,