Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-09-20


~ q miles ~ W. Of Augusta, Ga
September Sd, 1865.
DEAa FArHEE-By looking at the map,
you will see that we are in the far South, on
the banks Of the Savannah River, among
watermellops, 6gs, peaches, muskadines, ali
gatofs. yellow.fever, smallpox, itch, gray
backs, Re, spd the climate as hot as o "min--
iature purgatoryi" however, this climate
suits me. | have not been sick since left
Dayton. '' A' ,''. 'ia'-
You should see these works. It is really as.
tonisbing to see what expensive buildings the
Copfeds, have erected since the war com
meDced We often heard that they we're out
OF ammunition but they could not have
been entirely out for at this present time
there are twenty-five tons Of powder in these
buildings.
This Augusta is very pretty city, before
the war it had population Of 10000. The
army never came to this place
We have not yet learned who is the Demo
cratic nominee for Governor. AS we are sat-
isfed that be is opposed to negro suffrage,
we desire to vote for him, We are oil of q
color OR that subject that is, we think we
are white.-at least, we feel like white men, If
weare soldiers in the field. We fought this
war like white men, and we intend to vote
like white men, at the approaching election.
To advocate negro suffrage in the town Of
Oberlin, or at Russ. Fulkerth's corner, may
perhaps do but it wont do 10 the army, among
white soldiers, If you can find six privates
in about five regiments stationed at this place,
who will vote for negro suffrage, you can 10
more than the most OF us.
The negroes themselves are dissatisfied
with the treatment they receive from the
whites They say they are abused more by
the Yankees than they ever were by the
Johnnys, You folks up in God s country don't
know any thing about the statue of the black
man. II some of the negro loving stay-ai.
homes could be down here among the slaves
that are homeless, houseiess, and without the
wherewithGl to satisfy their empty stomachs,
they would regret, am sure, that they ever
assisted in forcing them into freedom You
can find them laying round most any where,
living on nothing but watermeops / asked
great many what they expected to do The
answer invariably is, II don't know; il was
only back to old Massa again, would never
leave him-he WAS such a good massa" But
the planters refuse to take them back What
in Gods name the poor, ignorant mortas
will do when the fruit is all gone, l can tell.
If only those who brought this dire calamity
lupon them, could be made to bear their suf-
fering, the punishment they so richly deserve
would be meeted out to them justly and prop
erly. .'
II Captain was killed night before last, just
opposite Gen. Steadman's headquarters
Three citizens committed the murder. He
was Captain in negro regiment. The fel~
Ions are all in Jail The poor man had his
papers IN his pocket to start home in the
morning .,l- a 20.
Our officers have been wire-working to
keep us in the service ever since we came
here, SO far, they have succeeded to their
own satisfaction, benefit and qualification, II
10 nobody else. Orders have come once and
again to muster US out but living and good
i pay to the officers keeps us in the service un.
necessarily. We just had an order read
however, to muster psout by the first of Jan,
uary, You may look for the Dayton boys Of
the 18th 0. V. I. about that time, ,s
II la.& Yours, Sc, a5eI
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