Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-05-30

Out tney we're benulng all Tue SICK away 10 gen
eral hospitals 40 that there can't be but few left
to come By this time. suppose it is thought
when the corps itself gets along here, there will
be some played ou. soldiers among them, who
will need to come here for treatment If there
is none it can be Of no object whatever to keep
Us here. The Fifth Corps came here several
days ago, and they say when the hospital was e.
tabI'hed, more ran away TO Heterogeneous than
came from the regiments to the hospta. The
boys had the story that they had only three pa
.enls left in the hospital then, one Of whom has
since deserted to hi: regiment, another has died,
and the third having the whole corp, Of surgeons
TO attend him, is expected to die soon. Besides
lhese patients, they have their light duty men,
and all the men that have been detailed f1r hos
pits duy. those that are detailed cannot return
20 their re .in.nts i they wish TO- We hsye no
sick men at a.. here only detailed men, and men
on light duty. We have seventy six light duty
men or conv4Iescents, but il you should see them
when their " igh, duty was done, irocSing and
soutilng, and matching their strength against each
her in thousand difsrent ways you would
doubtless consider it pretty healthy army that
could turn out such robust conuescents as these
Our qalrtsrm,.'er at City Point Ief. Il, and wen,
home on a iurlough, and being promoted to Ma
jlr did no. return again, and my position as h,
clerk became vacant. I am cow 10 the Comnis-
gsy Department, and have portion Of the re-
sponsibty Of drawing the rtons, aud feeding
these hundred men. | came very near forgetting
70 mention ia' important fact.
We are situ,ted ne,r the three mile post on The
Louion railroad from Alexandria, and near the
old Conva!e'cen! Camp that ha, nov been turned
into genera hospital. We have pleasant
place here, unlike tha, at City Po.n, 10 many re.
'pec!s Wesr, 10 quiet little valley that opens
Oh, ou to the Potomac little distance above Al
e1andra, and d. !. recedes from the river i. hdss
.ls- from Washington behind the ridge Of Jr..
fed bills winch overlook tlst ety. Opposite
these hills is another ridge, abrupt aud steep, and
1ejoni Ills The valley Of the Orange and Alex.
andra railroad which unite' with This railroad ~
A.eI,nifa .ks the Two parts Of the letter v
Olce these hills we're covered with forest trees,
b.t there is scarcely one left now to remind us Of
,he.r former glory Soldier, sEss have swept
Ih.m Away, and soldiers camp fires hage consumed
thems.. Niture, however, not At al discouraged
% vigorously reproducing what she has osl. Al
ready second crop is springing up, and tbs un-
commonly shthy forest Of little irees has clothed
these hills again with yerdure ami beauty. We
are not troubled here with duet S. at City Point.
Instead q being on plain which army wagons
iunumcra5e have made like one vast highway
Vhere eysry passing breeze can catch up a cloud
Of dust and hut 1t into our faces We have pleas
ant hillside, cirpsied win green turf for our
csmp, which makes il seem not only pIes'anter
but cooler snd better every way.
We h1d p.e,'ant trip from the Point Just
as We lei on the transport Pronethu', the bo,pi-
ia. boat Csaa-cdca,-ih4. giant among traus-
pors--c,me up TO tne wharf TO convey away
the sck tom our hospital We ef, sbou,
O'Clock Saturday evening, aud anchored tLai night
on the james some forty OF ffIy mile, 5e.ov she
Point. Sunday about noou We passed Fortress
Monroe. | couldn't zee but thl, the old gray
wal, Of tha stronghold looked exactly as they
did three years aud more sgo, when We first land
ell lhert--ihe "Grand Army Of the Potomac"
which We had no doubt was capable Of subduing
the world The old lighthouse stood in the
same place and had the same lock that Il did then.
The sand at It's base has rot changed its appear
arce at al since that nigh, Of our tf,, .,nd.ag,
when We spread our blankets on 1t and slept
there Aud 3te'med 81 conquest aud glory But
the monster gun that stood then pointing towards
Sewaii', Point va, noi here The boys told me
it had been removed to @ new position, and pointed
cut dark speck back from the shore and farther
~ The Bay as its present site And there we're
no officers about there, IS there we're, hen. with
their glasses locking anNou,y scros the water
to SeNlil's Point where the ms,ts Of the rebel
shipping could then be pan seen, and among
which some Of those officers affirmed they could
zee the grim outline OF the Merimac. Three
year, have made great difference in the sssocia-
Iion Of objects. Then the shipping was oil hud-
died close TO the shore, especially the ,m,ller
craft, and outside Of them all stood the monitor
itse.i as sen,iae to protect them from the erebrl
leeti now ,he vessels ride aIly at anchor any.
heterogeneous and monitors mixed promi.cuouslv
with others, and 20 danger was FELT or thought Of
We dida't resch Alexandra G.l Monday AFTER
noon, aud il was no. ill tuesday night that ".
got our cargo moved up here. Since then the
Iish, duty men have been busy in putting up tents
and fixing things as nice a, they can, for they are
old soldiers the mos, Of them, and they know ,ha,
the nicer they fix up tbins' here The ,u,r they
will be to lsaye and 20 leave now msam to 20
home, ANr.REBEt,
DEcmarioN or MALrs Al rnr Sovrn.-Some
ol the facts disclosed By L,e's surrender show
how irightiully the male population Of the South
has been wasted by the wa ln many localities
II will be found to be nearly anuihhtsd. A
lev months ago general consolidation OF com
panies and tsgucut took place iu several Of the
rebel corps, whole reg gmen;s that once number
ed one thousand men cad more absorbed in sin.
! gle companies oi lSsa than fifty men, The iol-
owing figures were taken from therllsof Ilar-
d,os corps, including presentand ahson,
len regiments consolidated, 937 men; throc
| regiments. 2lO twenty regiments o. oley.u