Year: 1862

WARWICK COURT House, Va, April Is, 1862.
The Good Understanding Bereea The Rebel and Union
Pieket;-The Appearance Of the COantry-P@uliGTites
Of Warvick Court House dc.


My experience has been, snce havo been here that
the best and cheapest Of obtaining information Of
the movements Of army is to out on picket and
make bargain with the generous foe that will not
fro each other, and then sit down and hold tlo
friendly conversation together.


The pickets OF Of regiments and those Of the
Twenty ninth South Carolina Volunteers to have
established quite friendly intercourse with each other


don't know whether there twenty nine regiments
from South Carolina not; but they tell they the
Twenty ninth, and are from Columbia. Most Of
them are stonecutters, and have quite number OF
quantances in our regiment who working in
CHARLESTON and Columbia about the time OF the lombard
ment OF Fort Sumter. They say that they are
| much IN want OF coffee end SALT and one
| Of them offers to come over IN canoe We
will agree not TO mako prisoner Of him. and trade of
some tobacco and whiskey for coffee and salt Our boys
would not agree to the proposal but agreed that they
wouId not fire them; they down and sat on
the banks Of the river which that point but about
one hundred and fifty yards wide while con-
tinusd the conversation with others went into the
river bathing, boys doing tho same Their esti-
mates Of their forces vary from 900 to 600 When
reproached for the burning Of Hampton and for their





would be greater leaving and burning hore in few
days. The impression left minds that they
intended 10 burn and svacuate Yorktown shortly. They
acknowledge that they sick of the war; and that
brothers ought not to fight sgaiast brothers One Of
| them said he would like 10 settle the ISSUE by u
| game OF euchre; for, tad he, ppm hell on
euchre." They offer 10 give Richmond papers
for the NEW YORK HERALD; but can hardly afford to
make the exchange when get the HERALD only about
week and then have to pay twenty fvo cents for
copy. We feel, however anxious 10 send them
thing to enghen their minds because thoy claim the
victory at Pittsburg Landing When they about TO
be relieved by another company they told that the
company that would relieve them was from Georgia
regiment, and had elesoopic rifles and would shoot
| If we did not hide in the woods.


The Georgia company commenced firing
| they got on post, and from that time out il
continued game Of bush lighting. with ''nobody hurt
on our side" This Georgia regiment was The same
| one that engaged the Second Rhode Island regiment
at Bull The Georgians said they had haversack
which they took at Bull run, marked Lieutenant o.
Iiou Clarke now captain, thought they had had the
loan OF II long enough and had better hand IL
They denurred aud invited him 10 take 1t. He has
the subject under consideration and thinks he Will in
few days, If the General should give the orders 10
the other side, and not only take his havorsack but
since have boon mere have but that
could either read write The country looks Old and
the Inhabitants have air or aboriginal simplicity that
is strNingy contrast with the intelligent, knowing
Norhmen.


The VII age Of Warwick Court House consists OF
dwelling house, one store, one lawyers oiCe, court
house built 1910, very ancient style, Jail, clerks
cnice, and barn. There Is no church, school
house blacksmith shop, three OF the essentials 10
country village III New England