The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-01

erything nice to eat. The regiment, has orders to be in readiness to march at | any minute, and l am afraid they Will
 leave before ] can join them; Tel ll Jim i'm | "Ferginny" Is rough place for march, | ing, nothing but mountains.
 Fairfax June 27.-I was able to join | my company but am still too weak to drill.
 Fairfax. July 1O.-I have drilled twice
 this week. One of the Montgomery | Greys accidentally shot himself yester- day evening by letting his pistol fall.
 The surgeon says he will not live. It looks like we will never have fight up here, but I suppose our time will come after awhile.
 Fairfax, July H. .-The General has just left and says there are 1000 Federal troops advancing on us only few miles
 away, and we are preparing to meet
 them. Do not bekuneasy about me. If
 am killed. it may save a better man
 July 12.-It was false alarm. I heard this morning that General Beauregard
 said that tomorrow would be the opening
 ness in camp. Drs. weatherly and Mo Queen are both lsick. Our company Is greatly praised. We have the best or
 fcers of all the regiment There Is not
 man in the company who would not follow Lieutenant Fitzpatrick to the last
 moment. He says we have good repu-
 tation and have to sustain it. CharlOtIeHNllle,RN ,R V d.. August l.-Ne
 a hard time aftSf we left Fairfax; noth- ! ing to eat excepk salt bacon and crack CTS AS hard as a forick. If we wanted to eat one for breakfast, We commenced oh l it as soon as we Bot up My teeth were nearly worn out. There are several sick | and wounded in thts house. MT. Werten- ! bakers. One has died since I began this | letter. There are( two ladies that go l from one room to ahother all day to see l what we want and give us medicine. 1 Some of the ladies( have many as l eighty in their charge Our regiment was
 not in the fight tBullA Run). We were the | reserve, and they dtd not send for u'
 until evening We gbt there in time to | see them as they we1e running like deer ] We marched eightedn or twenty mile: | after ? o'clock. We lhad all their deac 1 to bury. Last week dur men had buried | 1900 of them. They were strewn over the | earth for two miles. 1.-The 4th Ala. sui | fered dreadfully in thu fight. more than any regiment in the field One of then 1 is in a room adjoiningA mine; he has one | thigh broken and Is fhot through the | other, and bears it all without murmur All the hospitals are filled with the sick and wounded and almost every family has many soldiers las they can wal
 on Before the fight weA were going Iron one place to another deXpecting an en' gagement. and were without our tents for week.
 Charlottesville Aug. S.t-I am improving slowly and hope to be liable to go back b the company in a few adays. There are
 three Yankees in this fhouse. two pri'
 yates and one colonel, Ball wounded al
 Bull Run. The colonel hEas a surgeon ol
 his own stripe to dress Hls wound.
 Charlottesville, Aug. lLA-l am sun mol
 we'll, but intend to go tSo the regiment
 as soon as I can find out iwhere they are
 It is reported that they 3!re above Falr' fax Station, winch will N'e long walE
 for me. If they get in tt fight l want
 to share their fats, let it b Q what 1t may The Yankee colonel is dointg hnely Eighty sick men came in on one tl ram yesterday The ladies have plenty to do now. Wher
 you write, tell me aboI my dogs.
 have dreamed several tinDles of hunting
 with them.
 Charlottesville, Aug. 19l T expect t. start to the regiment in tn e morning. has been over three week s since 1 wa!
 taken sick and sent herf ,. l will writ again when I get to camifp.
 Editors Note.-After marching tn
 eighteen or twenty miletS to Bull Run getting there only in tIIme to see thu final charge and the plight of the enemy the 9th regiment was ord%.red back to re pei a rumored attack, am d without rest ing. marched back to within ten mile of their starting point C where they ar rived in the middle of thSe night. It wal a false report. and thel regiment wen into camp, where they II emained durinl the writer's illness at Cha irlottesville. H joined them at Sangster}1s Cross Roads from which point the lettS sars will be con 6pued in our next issue