Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-02-16
Book Notice.

iSTo TUE LIONS Mouru. is the tide OF a
chapter IN llosmer's CoLos GUARD" perhaps
the most readable and valuable book called
forth by the war 1.-The following is specimen
of the book, culed from this chapter:
The fitty.seoond had stopped for il. dinner
last Saturday noon. lay, ne have wriuenit. .
on my side, pencil IN hand then suo0led ;
then looked across the burrows through the
sweet, sunny, bio-s0m. secuted aiFs, ta The long
lioe OF the Ninety first their o0lor exactly on
Pos'te ours. Hall do1cn pigs ran dosn be
tween the rtgimens; gauntlet, believe, not
one survived; aud beilre night thsy wero eat
en with much gusto; Tor during our stay AZ
Baton Rouge, NC have very rarely tasted fresh
meat.
Boon boom Big guns from the river We
can near, tou the cough OF hIgh-pressure trans
por' steamers, aud know now that tue heOt are
at least, as noar Port Hudson az We are aud
We are only iour or five miles away. AT length,
" Fall IN, men, at once An AIDE has come
Salloplng up to the colonel, who is 90 horseback
IN moment " We shall probably have sharp
WAX before We come back Keep COOL and
do not waste your fire. So Capt. Morgan And
tho rest gave such Caution " their men Us i.
neediu on the eya OF battle. "Lears knap-
sacks mere the iootsorc men will guard .hem, .
poor Hnes, ana the like of him, whose test
the real seoesh roads have beaten and bruised
with true rebel violence.
How do We ieel2 We ara going 10 meet lh.
enemy, We vii fully believe, and 50 do our 9TH
cers aud even staff officers OF the Gsneral, who
arc friendly to u,, look pi,ylnglY after, as We
march on Tor they know, though ,ue do not.
that We are 80 be pushed up in front OF tho
whole army, into close range of the cannon up
on the iortree, walls The hity4eoond ls cool f,
and YET eager .Dd not IA man, that can limp
al all wants to ,tay For the las, thing
Load y Open carjridge-boI tear the tough
paper from tho powder snd--there il goes down
the barrel aud nov tue ball half cock then
cap the cone, and all is done II have fire. IL
will se Tor the cause Scruples, now, are mere
,quosmi,huss, Now, BY the right flank
lOrward iardiser carries the white SAto 0ls
the tall sergeant, tie Stars and Stripet Old
nag, you are woven ol no ordinary stut Rank
aud Bile aud shoulder'siraps, 10 sacred thing
lt has Tor warp, liberty sndior wool, CON-
sltuuonal order and Is dyed dcap IN tlnts OF
love aud justice. Between Hardlker aud the
sdigeshl marches Nlis0n-a tine looking corp
oral, with military face, eye, aud figure /;
nustached bearded eager-suoh lace a, |
have seen ia llorac. Verne,s battlo.picc,s A
good maIksman, too, Is Wilson for many years
the terror Of squirrels in the woods Of 4 -.
--Prineo and ClaypolO cover Hardker aud
Wilson whilc march behind, right IN the
folds OF the great fla. Alongside, in the lius
u hle eosets, go West, and lispiog lighthairsd
Wiebel lhe Gcimsu and, last, the ever sage,
serene, aud satisfactory Bias Dickinson.
Sc wegO out Of the Geld into ,h. road in
the cealre Of She long column, with banner,
waving, and, hope, the true light Of battl-
upon our iaces-soldlers in a noble cause--hr.
mer and mechanic, merchant aud preacher.
shoulder to shoulder, Boom - 70 the lar.
away guns We are moving rapidly to the