Year: 1864

Letter from Three Good Little Boys.


The Richmond Whig of January goth
publishes the following Letter from Three
Good Little Boys" in which, under cover of
a facetious style. the desperation of the rebel
army is disclosed, and the Government is
condemned for its ineficiency and retention
Of incompetent agents:


Our IN THE FIELD


January &c, 1864.


Dear Pa: We take our Pen in Hand to
write You letter. We have Got something
to say to You. 1t is Bad News, and we are
sorry to say it. But it is che Fact. And
we Hope You won't get Very Madd with US
for telling It,.for it is the Real Truth, and We
don't mean to Hert your Feelings by telling
it. Because, If we could help telling 1t, we
wouldn't Tell It. Dear Pa, the Truth is
this. Us Boys that You sent into the Field
tn Fight the Yankees are eating Mighty
Hungry. and the Reason of it it All j. that
we don't get Enough to eat.


Now You know that Boys that don't get a
Pl-ntyto Eat can't Fight. They can Fight
some. But they can't Fight Good. Because
it takes Strength to Fight, and No Man is
Strong that Don't get Enough to Eat. We
All are willing not to Eat as Much as You
All at Home, and We All Don't Never get as
Good Vittles rs You All do, but we Enjoy
what we do Get more than You All do, just
Because we are so Pleg-taked Hungry All
the Time. but we have to Fight. and Fitting
is Hard Work, and them that have to Fite
are obliged to Eat. If they don't they Can't
Fite Hard.


We know that You Love us as Much as
any Pa ever loved any Boys. And VIZ know
it H.rts You to Hear about it. but We have
kept it Back until We Can't keep it Back
any longer. II We did, We would soon get so
Poor and L-an that the Yankees would Run
Over us like Big Fat Horse running over
Timmid little Gearls, and Dog OH 'em they
Shan't Do it If We can Help lit, which we can
If you will give rs Enough to Eat. Because
If the Yankees run Over Us, what will Become
Of You and the Balance of the Folks at Hoam
This is n Important Question, cont Yon think
40. Pal


Dear Pa, pleas don't get Fret:ed with us
for telling You the Reason we don't get En-
ough to Eat. You have got Great Deal
more Wisdom than we all Have, but then
You have not got bad pane in your stummack
because it is Empty, and Consequently Your
Mind aint turned to the Subject All the
time, like Ours is. You have got so Many
things to attend to that You can. be Expect
ed to Think on the Subject 90 often as we do.
THO 20 tho Reason we make Bold to tell you
something which prshaps you Don't Know
and We Beg you to pardon and Forgive us
t,r writiu yo.Ass lgttrz abapa lhd. TO-. 70
deed we don't mean any HarfhbyM of TO
Go out of our Place by Doing it. i,1


Dear Pa, the Cause why we don't get
Enough to Eat is that old man. Mr.. Northup.
They say he Aint Got Good sense. We don't
say it, but Everybody says it. You told him
to Feed us Well, and we Aint Well Fed, that
is certain. He is to blame for it. Now If
YOU was to get Another Man and tell him to
Feed us Well. may be He would Do it. If
he did not Do it, then nobody can Blame
you for keeping Man in Office that has not
Got Good sense. We feel sorry for that old
man and wish he had his Right Mind and
Enough sense to do the Bisness you told
him to do. But we can't wait any longer,
the Pain in our Stummacks is SO Bad and
we are getting 40 Weak in our Joynts.


W. know that the Fellows in old Mr.. Nor
thrup's office says the Peopls is to blame.
But that is the way that all fellows do that
Neglect their Bisness. They try to throw
the Blame on somebody Else. Because If
they did no. throw the Blame on somebody
Else, they would have to be Punished for
their Faults and at the same time to confess
that their Punishment was Just. But this
Goes Against the Grain. especially Of the
Fellow that Does Wrong. Either old Mr..
Northup and his fellows amt got the sense to
Manage their bisuess or else they have neg,
lected it. Any way. they ought to Quit and
Bows will Starve, the Yankees will whip MS.
and then You all Hoam Foxes will Kstch the
Very Devil. :,


Hoping dearest Pa, that you will Attend
to this Right Away, We sign our names, with
all love aud Duty. Your afftctionats sons,


Bon LEE,


Gus BowREGARD,