Year: 1862

| field, lying on table. IL was let as il
reads, for the Yankees to get hold Of II;
we did 80, aud thinking 1t would interest
our many friends in S, ncca, we send !,
for publication.


yonrs,


A. A. L. Co., G. 25,h, Rcgt. o. V.


MONTEREY, Va,


March soth, isG9.S
Mr.. YANKEE;


You old devil, youl have Just taken
the privilege of leaving you few lines
to let you know that once inhabited this
little town, and an enemy as you are,
would liko to know who you are, and
from whence you came, and hope to the
devil you will go to.


Well, old fellow, you will have a good
room to rest in, but l hope you may be
tormented by day and by night with fiend-
ish thoughts, and hope the worst Of your
dreams may come true; for you had no
need for your present position, opposing
our Government, and il is one thing sure,
that you might as well turn back, for VIC
will retreat and fight you--yoa cursed
barburians, worse than the savagcs Of
North America ever was, you internal
hireli1gs; you worthless tocl ofa filthy
borkcn down demagoguc; u usurpcE OF u
once happy but now ravishcd aud unhop-
ny people; you are serving one who is
daily riveting your own chains together.
Will you thus sacrifice your own life
perhaps, for the sake of one who has been
an arch traitor to your government, and
betrayed one of the most noble truths
that ever man kind was intyustcd with.


Will you still help the tyrant to destroy
tic liberties OF as happy people as we
once were! Can you grind your feelings
down 10 that dcgreel Arc you devil in
carnntel Will you destroy the liberties of
our people aud then hold ycur own neck
quietly and still fer your usurper TO tut
The yoke on and then resign yourself to a
man who has been a curse to mnnknd-
one who has now sins higher than the
mountains that surround your encomp-
mcnts! How can you think Of prosecuting
a war against men who are fighting for
no other purpose than TO be let alone9
Do you imagine that you can whip us!
l!you do you can come TO the conclusion
that you are badly mistaken, or else we
are, one or the other.


] for one hope if you do force us to re-
treat that our armies may rctrea, to the
Gulf of Mexico and fight on till there is
not one man LEFT. hope while there is
ten men left in the South they will stick
together and call tn mselves the Southern
Confcderocy. | hope the flag of the
South may wave as long as time lasts.-
Let the consequence be what il may, we
will fight on. We will sacrifice every.
thing in the world, nothing excepting, not
even life; for life to southern man with
out liberty is like being walled within the
walls of common prison, and you may
come to the conclusion that the South is
still the South, and that if they are con-
quered it will never benefit Que man in
the North.


You will have to keep a standing army
over us all the time, and every man in
the South will refuse to do only what
will be forced upon them aud want to
know ifyou deem such as their liberty;
and | think that any sane man will an.
swer tn. same question, and in the same
manner, that would myself.


How much progress have you madcl
How much has it cost you! And when will
your cost endl Doyou suppose that you
will end the worst of the war when the
war ends! for one am a Northwestern
Virginian. am from the country now
in the possession of your armies, and
every thing | have in the world, you
or y ur army have burned and destroyed,
aud | am left with but little of this
worlds goods, but do you suppose that
have given it up without resolution TO
repay you in your own coin; | expect
some day to repay you well, and you may
depend upon it that will get four fold
Tor what ] have suffered at your honds-
you who can go rmong civilized people
and turn 10 destroying their property
without any provocation. The God that
oversees ali will pay you and the rest of
Iour comrades with vengeance for your
nfernal deeds.


You willyet cringc beneath the ire of
he avenging wrath Of the just God.


will wind up my letter by saying
good-bye to ycu aad the rest of your infer
nal host, and may you then remember the
leeds you once committed in Virginia,
md think how you tormented innocent
women and children in North Western
Virginia, that the lite of FIVE Of your mon
must rePoy the debts. would ask you
o remember the above sentence; no pains
will be spared in executing it. II


Your enemy forever,