Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-11-01

offered 10 furnish transpoHatior and many fam
lies are packing up to avail themselves Of the onei
Many Others are heartily praying for peace let i
come in what way it will. They have taste
the bitter fruit Of secession, and have had enougl
Of it, They fnd that It does not satisfy, that /
was poor remedy for their imaginary grievances
They see the grim determination Of the North
and they begin to feel that to hold out longer 4
to fight against inevitable destiny. It is curoa'
how interested they all are in cur Presiden,ia
election, ! hayn't talked with single citizen that
did not depIore the probability Of LiaooIn's re-
election. That, they think, shuts them out from
any hope. Let Mcclellan be elected, they say
and We can get together and talk the matter over
like men and have our difficulties settled, without
prolonging this terrible war. Their reasoning
sounds very plausible, but you ssk them how
peace is to be brought about by the slccti. N Of
another than Lincoln for President, and they will
reply, why by recognition, Of coulse."' They
will tell you again and egain that they will never
yield an inch SO long as Mr. Lincoln is Precedent
that they will never make the least concession to
him. But you find by questioning them little
further that they expect to make just as little
concession to any ether man as President as they
do to Mr.. Lincoln. Thy only hope that some
other President viii make greater concessions to
them. They know Mr., Lneoln's straightforward
iron determination to punish treason everywhere
and do it thoroughly, aud they know that be will
not spare their pride, nor buy them off, nor sur
render one iota Of The principles thst ho has
ayowcd. 1t gals them to the hearts core, that
having rebelIed against the Government under
him, they should have to yield to him finally or
course We sympafh,ao with them most deeply in
their uncomfortable predclm'nt, but we can't
quite make up our minds to vote for Mcclellan to
relieve them. They begin to be sick Of the war
already, butthey will be sicker Of it by and BY, and
when thoyget sick enough Of it to throw down
their arms against the Government Of the United
States it will DO time to begin to think Of taking
over tie matter together like men" Does
any one say that it is impossible to bring the
South to this point2 My friend, it /, Jecaw, you
say 50 that il will be impossible How easily YOU
can whip an antagonist that thinks ut the outset Of
the strife he Il going to get l.cked Oaly let every
man, woman and child in the North feel and
know that this rebellion is to be totally crushed.
and the thing is done ,iready. The South would
sseiour determination, and II sbe felt it to exceed
her own she would yield at cree. The hope of
division at The North nerves them to fight f4r
more than the hope Of conqloriog our armies
That hope has pretty nearly faded out. Heaven
forbid that We should encourage the other.
For few days pa,t have been at work in the
AdJutant Generals Office, making out for Major
Mundee, Assistant Adjuant General Of the
Division, lis! Of the Killed, wounded and miss
ing in the old Division during the severe ca npaign
of last summer, from May 9TH, to Jolly 10Th,
inclusive. The whole loss amounted to the
enormous number Of 1880, Of which the brigade
lost very nearly one half
Our brigade when it crossed the Rapidan, had
3SSs mu'kets that could be called into line Of
battle The llth joined US the last Of My with
l490 more. There is now 10 the brigade present
for duty 1851, The 2od regiment left Brandy
Station with 740 mu,kets Available for line OF
battle, the 3rd with $685. The 4,h with 500, the
9Th with 40l, the 9Th with 4s4. Since then we
have bad SO ne additions to our numbers, along
with our many heavy subtractious, and now the
number Of enlisted men present for duty in each
regiment Of this brigade is as follows: In the
2nd regiment 239, in the 3rd ia, 4th l07, 5to
l02 in the 9th 275 and in the llth 6S3. The
number absent from each regiment s-frcm the
2nd 233 from the 3rd 2sO 4ib, 357 9th
PA 9Th 2S0 and from the llth sos. These
numbers, it will be observed, include only "the
men, nisgers, oflicers walters and the like, not
being mentioned. Those absent are mostly in
hospitals or rebel prisons, and will join US again
when they can. There are but 81 reported sick
n the whole brigade. Deaths from disease rarely
'ecur here now. aieIlsw faceiiousy remarked
he other day, dying of from sickness in this
brigade is about played out.
ASTI-REBgL.