American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-05-17
CORsEsPONDENCE.
FAIRFAX CoURr HOUSE, Va,
May 9th. 1865.

-AdD ot''. ho'D'
EDITOR CITIZEN AS the soldiers have
now bu. little military duty to perform,
and have abundance of time to write. !
presume, therefore, you are in receipt of
any number Of communications from the
army designed for publication. Not wish
ing to ihtrude in your columns to the ex-
clusion of more valuable reading, and
knowing you feel disposed to give room
in your valuas lie paper to anything eman-
ating from the army, | have in conse-
quence, heretofore. refrained from tres
passing on your time, space and patience.
Should you deem this epistle of sufficient
importance to occupy place in the col
umns of the CITIZEN, it is at your SER
vice Butler county is well represented
in this regiment, not to have any compa-
nes that can properly be said to be But
ler county organizations. There is scarce
ly company in it that is not composed in
part of Butler county boys land in one or
two of the companies they predoninate.
Co. H. is commanded by Butler county
officer, 1st Lieut. S. D. Hazlett, Of Win
field township. Captain r. NJ. Kiskad-
den of Armstrong co. having resigned
short time since on account of i'll health.
There will probably be no more promo
tions made, or commissions granted, as
the.war is now virtually ended but one
thing is certain, no one is more worthy Of
promotion than the present commander of
Co. l.. But | trust the time is near at
hand when men shall be Judged, honored
and respected for their mclits, and not
for their bars. eagles and stars. When
zone man" as the Irishman says, sis as
good as another (andfar better too) if he
behaves himself" The regiment is now,
as it is summer, in first-rate winter quar-
ters after having raided, secuted, march
ed aud campaigned all last fall and win
ter. We have now, for the first time
since the organization of the regiment,
what may be called an easy time of it
We are now, as We might say, doing Sun
day soldering Our duty is very light,
little picketlng and camp duty, aud oc.
casionally an escort with wagon train to
the depot, or with officers visiting the
scene of the Bull Run battlefield, from
which place we are about II or II miles.
Almost every day parties from this regi-
ment and from the 9th Heavy Artillery,
part of which lies near here, 60 out to
visit the ground, consecrated by the blood
of hundreds of our fellow soldiers who
literally sfought, bled and died. for a
purpose which they never saw realized
but which now, thanks to them and thou
sands more, who have sacrificed their lives
for the same noble glorious cause, has hap
PLY reached its consummation in the
downfall of the most wicked and uncalled
for rebellion that the world has ever yet
known; and in the final overthrow and
complete destruction of that peculiar in
stitution," which has been the first and
prevailing cause of all our political and
civil strife. With the Coniederaey down
goes slavery, aud with slavery, the source
of all our national evils, and down they
both are never 10 rise again. Let us be
truly and devoutly thankful to an all-wise
Providence, who has carried us safely
through this struggle, and brought us out
a stronger, and it is to be hoped, better
people. speak of the war as over l
believe it is. / do not think that there
will be another battle fought, and proba-