Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-07-22
From the Goth Regiment.
CAMr Goth ISD. Vol. ISF'TY,

IHIBoDAUxVILLEi La July D Of
D1' / have have boen going to write to you
every day for the past month, bat when
| actually set down to write, | bad so lit
tie Of interest to your readers to write
about, that was unwilllug to fll your
columns with my nonsense, when the
campaign in Virginia afford so much
material of an interesting nature and so
much more to the taste of your readers;
for we'll know that in the present day,
no letters from the army are acceptable
unless they tell tale Of victory, or
blaodshed at least These | cannot hash
up this time, for ever since the regiment
was in Evansville on vsteren furlough,
we have led as quiet lifo as any Of its
citizens.
We left Evansville as you may renem-
Der, on May the llth, the Mail Packet,
Armada, taking us to Cairo, slllinois.
We then took the steamer City OF Mem
phis, and landed at our destination, New
Orleans, on the 10Th Of May. There we
remained without being called on for a
detail, or doing any guard duty until the
| 18th of jane, when we received orders
TO proceed to this point and 60 on duty
as Provost Guards, which order we filed
10 the letter as all good soldiers should
/ We found the Eleventh Indiana already
here on the same duty. Colonel Dan.
| MeCauley of that regiment, commands
the post. Capt. W. f. Thrsll Of our reg
iment. is Provost Marshal. OF the vii
laee itself, cannot say much. Ii is q
little Creole French town of about 200
inhabitants, So miles from New Orleans
on the opelousas Railroad, with hardly
n Union man, woman, or boy in It /
know Of but one or two exceptions. Mar
row streets, muddier than Evansville,
ugly women and girls, and cross jabber-
ing FrenehmAn on every corner, are the
principle features of the place. But
AN forgetting the object of my writing
this letter. Yesterday was the 4th oi
July, and as matter of course We had
a celebration. We did not have either
the smiling faces Of the fair sex to in
crease the enjoyment Of the day nor die
we have big dinSer with plenty and tC
spare, as.is usual at home, but We die
have big crowd and plenty of buncomt
speech making, and when through with
that, if we retired to our hard tasl
and SOW belly" without grumbling, i
only showed we were reterGn soldier!
in the American army, and of eours'
could stand anything without repanin.
at our lot l enclose programme o
the order of the day. It was printed IL
an abandoned office by some of the boy
of the Eleventh The order was slight
ly altered on account of rain the previ
: ous day, the Military Procession beinl
at 5 o clock in the evening instead of
in the morning. Chaplain Sawyer wa
the orator of the day, bat when throug
he was followed by Gen. Cameron, Co
Slack. of the 47th Ind, Col. Simmons
of the 2sth Iowa, and Col. Wilds, Of th
24th Iowa. Some were quite violent o.
the question of Southern Ladies' Man
ners. but sill expressed themselves conf
! dent of the ultimate success of on
cause, as did the soldiers by whom tn
] speakers and their sentiments were vC
: ciferously eheered. There was not
exceed q dozen citizens in attendance
! though the speakers stand was not so
J, wards from the center of the town, an
when we paraded through the streets, "
were met BY frowns and angry glance
from all the female portion Of the con
munity, that is the srhite element Th
negro population were in eotacies an
= were trieked cut in all the hnery she
owned for the occasion. The day pas
(. ed very happily and pleasantly, OWN
to the. good management Of the Po
commander, Col McCauley, who WI
also Master of Ceremonies. There wi
no disturbance or drunkenness to N
knowledge.
:, Our troops are all quite healthy
: this point, though the hot weather max
drilling rather warm operation. o.
- regiment numbers Sl4 present for dut
We have but four in the regiments be
pital, and have sent none to the gener
hospital since We came South from o
Sc. furlough.
You must excuse the brevity OF Il