Weekly Trinity journal., 1864-01-02
Letter from the Army In Virginia.

VIENNA, Va, Nov %, 1868.
FRIEND GORDON was very sorry to hear Oh
the great fire which had destroyed SO much OF
Weaverville. Of course Trinity enterprise will
soon remove all trace of its ravages, and replace
the blackened district with new and substantial
buildings could hardly account for the nom
arrival of your paper, but see why it was now.
The JOURNALS suspension must be for brief pc
riod only, as the country Whereabouts needs
good, staunch Union advocate to prevent wrong
impression going abroad, and giving your county
the unenviable faint of Copperheadism. The sol
ders of the Army of the Potoman can best de-
fine that term and prevent its growth.
We are still in the Brigade here-22d Army
Corps. Our chief business is to protect the
country and railroad from the incendary visits
of Moseby's guerrillas. Last week party of
our boys went on night scout and took twenty
three of them prisoners, killed one, and brought
in forty horses, and considerable quantity of
arms and equipments. The business was manag
ed so nicely that we didn't lose a man. A deser-
ter from Moseby guided the detachment of TWEEN
ty-ive mounted, and seventy-fve dismounted
men, all under Capt. Rummery, of out regiment.
Since then we have bagged ten more of the same
gang, and we shall doubtless kill and capture
the whole lot if the weather holds good.
Our camp life is quiet one, and even the con-
tinual chattering of the bugles fails to enliven
US. We have a Regimental band, composed al
most exclusively of Californians. Our battalion
to hn dpta chpd from
this regiment. Three times has it assailed the
Powers that be, but alas as often failed. Sem
ator Conness and other influential Californians
have used their best efforts in our behalf
CONFESS sustans high reputation in Wash
ington. His private character and political ca
reer have given him a position second to none,
and this his good common sense and energy will
maintain. At last Californians may rejoice that
they have a fit representative. McDougal dis
graced himself and our State by his inordinate
appetite for whisky
"Fighting Joe Hooker" our pet, will rise
again. Despite strong influences and his own
mistakes in social life, TO count against him, he
is again the " bright particular star" What he
did on the Peninsula he is re-enacting in the
Chattanooga country, only with better surround
ing circumstances, and the united Press of the
States are ringing his praises and the countrys
thanks from Maine to California. You will OBJ
serve that the first intmation he had of the pre-
sentation of a sword from citizens of San Fran
cisco, reached him at the head of the brave col
umn he was leading on to victory and the dis
oft ln "a of
Hooker and Conness are victorious names. The
men are both great, and will be equally victo-
rious. Mark the prediction.
The soldiers in high spirits. They feel
confident that the lives and blood so freely offer
ed in the great cause are bringing their own re-
wards in the speedy reduction of the rebels
Not only is this great confidence felt in the ranks,
bull throughout the whole country the people
instinctvely feel satisfied that the end is nigh
1t is impossible to say whence this feeling has its
source, unless it be in the fact that our Generals
have put away strategical ideas and determined
to win by hard fighting and plenty of it.
1t may not be amiss to state that our regiment
has had, until lately, strategical head of the
Mcclellan species. The consequence is that we
have worked in vain, although we have done suf-
icicnt to show that ready and willing
for all duty. Still our battalion, as Californans,
would prefer to do some bold act, and acquire
fame. We want California to feel that she sent
out men to do something, and that they did it,
Hooker wanted us when he commenced the great
march to Pennsylvania, last summer, but had to
leave us behind.
Morris of Minersville, has been released from
captivity in the starvation holes of Libby. He
is now recruiting in a Maryland Hospital.
have seen many who came from Libby, and lis
tened to their tales of suffering and exposure
these and elsewhere Take the worst accounts
you get in print, and believe them, for nothing
can be more horrible than the treatment received
by our sick and wounded soldiers at the hands
of their - Southern brothers"
Yours, truly, EBY,
Company NJ, I'd Massachusetts Cavalry.