Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-02-22
FRoM sHERmAN,s ARMY.

We are permitted TO publish the follow
ing extract from private letter received
by a friend in Brooke. county from SOL
dier in sherman's army, written just on
the line of South Caroliua, and just as
the army set out on the grand campaign
from which we are now hearing such Rlori-
ous uews:
"Iwrite Just before we start out into
the unknown future concealed among the
Cypress, Palmetto and Pine of this spunky
little State. We feel peculiar pleasure in
anticipating the campaign now before U.S.
for we know that We are to meet men wor-
thy our admiration, for with all their sins
We can't help liking the plucky fellows
from this State. We are here to accept
their challenge and battle with them in
their own "Fatherland." This will be q
! fair test of blood, which they cannot fail
to acknowledge if We are victorious. 1t y
a regal prize and we are determined to
prove our training, here. Not one in the
army but feels q double interest in the
coming tournament in the Palmetto Ststei
every one has braced himself for the storm,
and it will go we'll with us. We have q
magnificent army, and after much peril,
both by land and water,s we are at last
settled on firm ground, and they have not
the power to displace Us let them do their
| worst, and they will do their worst you
may depend on that. We have found that
loutt to our sorrow already, through but few
miles in the State. Torpedoes seem to be
indigenous here; -Wouldu't be surprised II
they had the whole State mined and blow
us all up together.
~ never swear, but when think of our
poor fellows in the rebel pens. Never
should we forgive the South Ibis crime. But
don't believe in retaliation, at least in
J the matter of PriIoHerS. Show to them it is
only another name for cowardice. These
prisoners have been unfortunate enough to
} fall into our hands, fighting manfully for
what many thought right. None of them
. ever saw southren prison and don't know
! the treatment our men get at the hands oil
the Devils in charge. If the gentlemen who
lpreach this doctrine so persistentlY and con-
, denim the Administration SO roundly would
} but come out and aid the Government in the
. plan it has adopted, {the only true one, al
least from such nation as ours). Bring
them to their senses by hard blows deali
} on the field; press them to the wall; give
them no rest nor breathing spell; drive
them from point to point; Wrest these IN.
tortunates from them by main force, Of
make them such burden that they will
} gladly let them go; make our armies al
inevitable Calling plague, that they will
; fee from us as from grim Death himself
} nor take breath till we have taken the life
of the Coufederacy itself. 1t would be don,
ere Spring visits our northern climes
were our good people az generous of blood
as they are of money. RI \ My old
brigade of six regiments numbers to-day
but little over sixteen hundred men.-
Last May they went to battle with three
Thousand bayonets. We should have Elk
thousand by the book and to do the work
they are required to do.
We have crossed the Savannah With
"harness on our backs" and. go forward
to day, to the objective point, the life OF the
rebellion. We go to the mission eagerly, las
bride adorned" &c. But l must lesve
this and start. go with enthusiasm
, The men are confident of victory.