The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-08

rife. from some secret hiding place might send with every bullet some polluted Yankee soul before its God. Poor Mis- shrieks of violated virtue almost ring in our ears! l cannot think of 1t without shedding tears. Who that has mother sister or wife or daughter!
 As to the end of the war, 1 think now 1t will come only when the North has been thoroughly exhausted and thorough ly convinced that We never intend to re- unite; period which no man can for see.
 The enemy Is working away on his canal opposite the mouth of which we are enc ampSd. 1 have discovered what l take to be batteries which nave been planted to protect it's mouth or entrance mt the Mississippi. When he gets ready doubtless he will commence smelling us, and We shall be compelled to leave our present location. 1 nave great respect for bomb shell, though very little for she accuracy with which they are thrown here, on either side.
 T am trying to organize my battalion so that Bunny may pe transferred, it I can. Duncan Green is to join my bat- tery as Ordnance Sergeant. He is Il fine youth and 1 shall do all 1 can for him. The health or my command is pretty sood now. Isil mother l will write to want him to write me a full statement of the matter. l told him would talk to Bishop Green about. l think 1 shall gn down to Jackson shortly. Love to all ;Ahectionately your son,
 U. F. Waddeli"
 Camp at vicksburg, April 21, iSa3. My Dear Bob-I have a good mind Co write to you today! 1 say d good mind, because in my act of discharge of this obligation feel such Il irresistible, lang ou, creeping over me that ] don't know that I shall not be compelled to suspend the process. l have not been unmindful that l have beeu your epistolaTy debtor for some time past. and can only crave your indulgence upon the score that poor health and varied occupatiou, to say nothing of an increasing indi3pbsitlon to w.ite. have made me. latterly, a pG6r cores pondent. l have nothing to write about either. but this everlasting war, of which have grown SO weary that I fnd myself often fnyenting some plan for de stToying the whole Yankee race, I told No. wood last night in the midst of a thu lder storm. that all | wishe for at thut moment was just electricity enoueh to settle the war. If 1 only pnssc-seg the needed supply. what howl there Wonid come out from Yankeedoml But 1t IS Sunday and 1 ought to indulge in better feelings. l have not been to church since l came here, not that I nave nave not felt like going, but because the weather has been bad or 1 too unwell Ihe Bishop Is to be here on next Sunday.
 believe told you all that Dune is with me, He Is fine youth. l have mac made him Ordnance Sergeant. He is now at Jackson, where l sent him for morse shoes and iron. Judging from what mother says in her letter. you got none of my letters from Jackson. l wrote her all about the little boys, tell ing her they staid with me all the time l was there; that the doctor came down to see me, etc, I also wrote about the Bishops family.
 'I perceive one thing, none of you writes to me by the mail and l have determined to quit too.
 "The internal Yankees are still In sight, going up and coming down the river. IL Is now said that they have thaee or 1 four hundred boats around the point ,snd | intend storming the city from the front