Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1864-10-06

The Griffin Rebel, of the 23d, contains the following
gossping letter from Rough and Ready, the truce
dez vous, dated the 18th It gives entertain-
rg" view of the in which the truce has been
conducted with some other items of interesting de-
scrptiOn:
The detachment OF Federal soldiers here correspond
ing to our one hundred men, with O compliment OF
ocers," is under the command of COL CatersoD of the
87th Indiana, Gen Sherman being represented by his
staff officer, Col Warner)
Il The social communngs between the two squads is,
presume, about parallel with other occasions Of the
kind The labors of the late campaign, obstiraely
and pers verngy battled seemed to have prepared Reb
and Yank alike for the welcome Of this temporary re-
spite. They minge, however, after the manner OF
fresh arrived foreigners than reunited friends Con-
versaiODs at these meetings all topics OF camp
e-rations clothes, commanders. commands, negroes,
Presidents, ETC., with considerable sprinkle of barter
on small SCALE Newspapers also, are freely ex-
changed-the only regret with the Rebs being the mys
FERROUS scarcity of Northern pagers with the Yankees
So far we judge, theV had mail from August
3lst to September ID The United States officers of this
detachment mixed. Colonels Warner and Caerson
very entlemanly in their diplomatic associations,
and would stand in the G. S. A. about secondclass
officers of the rank Among the line officers
some intelligent gentlemen capable, too, of emotions OF
human sympathy and kind in their attentions to the
Atlanta exiies bat large majority emphaticaly
" whales of the first water" Suipt of their uniorm s,
(which they are go vain and restored to their fora
err avocations one would naturally expect to find them
of no tione" ard patent medicines. YET take them as
fraternity, they pretty good vefs-oily, social
fellows and, witha seem to enj y truce much
than fight. Luxuries at their mess-tabie are very
scarce They have nothing that we have rot, and
eral articles of diet is blank their bil of fare"
don't know that they live thus all the while but at
this tne Anderson's hotel is lar ahead of Cstersons
10 point of edioles. must admit they have abuu-
dance of whiskey-evers son of gun OF them from the
Colonel down. The first thought is to offer newly made
acquaintances crnong the Rebs ga drink" They seem
to think all the "eixers" get via the block
ade the tang!eoot factories in Dixie having loug
since played out" Their hospitality, in this connection,
regret to say in instances has been shaneluiy
acknowledged especially in the Q. M. Department,
several of Its honorable rssnatives having recently
been seen demonstrating by actual proof that math
ematcans wrong in the assertion that "the shcr
test distance from one given point to another given
point is a straight lines.
= A large majority of Yankees with whom we have
come in contact are Mcclellan men and seem confident
of his election. AS general thing they say Wheeler
has done them little harm, but an occasional unsophs"
tcated Yankee lets the cat out and tss he is play
ing the ID with the railroad. They seem surprised
that our men manifest such universal determination
to fight on forever" and say id you all haVnt
been posted how to talk"
As to their transportation the wagons are good, bat
the mules in miserable condition, and tnllK
about half of them wou be condemned by oar nspec-
TORS. Among The teswsters is good proportion OF ne
groes-al good Yanks together. Several negroes were
readily recognized as the property OF Tennessee farmers
All we Intercepted said they were forced from home,
and desired to be there egan Toey say tae iankses
tried to put them in ranks, but they no do dat
The officers and men try to sustain Sherman in bis
late brutal exile order but when pressed upon the sab
lect they become embarrassed ana confess that II Is
hard, and possibly might have been avoided.
Many incidents really amusing, daily occur which
might naturally tend to enliven cur camp, but with
every fresh train of exes fresh of sympa
lth2, and everything like syiy is baniahea at once.