Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-03-12

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the extent of saying that the only Confed-
crate detachment known to have crossed
except as prsoners-waS one man, who
got over during the first day of the siege
captured II solitary picket on railroad
track, and safely recrossed with his prs
oner. Even the privilege of fighting with
the cannon instead OF small arms was be-
grudged lV both sides by nature, for the
soil was so light and porous that some of
the earlier batteries constructed on both
sides were carried INTO the river by their
own weight, and others were shaken out
of shape by the shock of their own guns.
TO remedy this, both sides resorted to rev
citing, and many thou sands of valuable
pine trees were diverted from the custom
AIRY uses of such timber and laid as wood
ell walls against which to pack the treach-
erous soil. As all the chopping, on both
sides, had to be done under artillery fire at
point DldHh range, ine NOrh was nOu so
monotonous as army fatigue work gener
ally is In this respect the Union forces
suffered most, for all their logs had to be
obtained within Il few rods of the river,
where sharpshooter' 5 bullets were as eff
fective as shells while the enemy, with
no town or swamp in their rear, could 20
farther and suffer less, sending their de-
tails for chopping beyond rifle range alto
gether, and where artillery could only
reach them by chance.
About this time there was as much
grumbling in Suffolk as any equal num-
Der of men anywhere could have perpe-
trated. Fully half of the troops were not
accustomed to entrenching, and some not
all of whom We're recruits, intimated that
they had enlisted to fight, not dig. They
We're prevailed upon, by short and sharp
methods, to change their minds. At any
time of the day or night thousands OF
men could be found at work, the parties
being divided into eight-hour reliefs. A
mong the knights of the spade were about
1000 fugitive slaves, who, with their fami-
lies, had been for months coming into
Suffolk from all the adjacent country