Year: 1862

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man formerly in the employ of Geo.
Carleton, of Cambridge:


ALoInRs, La, Aug. 10, '62.


FRIEND CARLEToN:-I received your
kind letter last night, and will hasten to
answer it. 1t is a very pleasant morning,
but the sun is now coming out which will
soon dispel the fog, and then we have to
take the schorching, For a week past we
have had very cool nights and mornings,
but the middle of the day is enough to
melt mans hat on the top of his head.
The health of the regiment is improving.
We have lost none out of our Co. for about
three weeks. Before that we lost our ID
Lieut.. Rand +; our I'd Sergeant and three
FTiyatcs There was while that we had
to bury from one to three every day. On
the other side Of the river in other regi-
monts, they died full as fast They don't
make any more of a dead man here, than
thcy do of dead horse in Vermont.
The wagner of Go. Ii, was killed on the
cars few days ago. He was standing on
the cow-catcher, and they run into some
cars that were standing on the track, and
injured him so he died in about two hours.


Our Co. has been called back from up
'tlic railroad, and another Co. detailed in
place of it. They kept us up there five
weeks, till they liked to have killed us all
off A good many Of the boys had the
fovcr and ague, till they like to have
Shook the hair all off their heads. Sever
;dlof them are in the hospital with it now,
but most of them have got it broke up.
Our Orderly has just come along since ]
commenced this and told me he had re-
caived his commission this morning. He
promoted to I'd Lieut.. in our company.


The companies up the road are station
cea in the same place they were when !
wrote before. All that they are doing is
to guard themselves. They have had a
hard fight up the river at Baton Rouge,
butyou will probably get the particulars
in the papers before you get this.


The 7th Vt regiment was in the fight
a short time, what were able to be. They
have seen pretty hard usage. | expect
at that time they could not muster over
three or four hundred men for duty
Their sick have been brought down here
to the city. Some of them arc over here
in our camp most every day. From what
i can hear, Martin Roby is in good health.
/ have not seen him since we left Ship
Island. He had a pretty hard time of it
there, but guess he has got climated now
50 he will stand it we'll. John Chayer
who had his finger and thumb shot of, is
doing we'll. His hand is getting along
nicely. He will probably get his dis
charge when they get round to it, but it
takes mighty while for the wheel to turn
down here, and when it gets to going it
goes'like the devil.


/ declare George, | can't think of any
thing to write this morning Oh yes |
.can, they have recruited one whole regi-
ment over in the city, and appointed the
officers. They are mostly northern men.
Some of them are taken out Of our reg
imcnt and some out of most all the regi-
mcnts around here. 1t is called the lsI
Louisiana regiment. They have started
the I'd regiment over there, and it is fill
ing up pretty FAST One regiment of them
is worth two Of our northern, down here
They will stand double of the fatigue
duty in the hot sun, that our men can
My health has not been very good fol
some time past. ! am not very sick, ye
lam good ways from being we'll
have done no duty for some time, nor
don't think they will get much out of me
till feel better than | do now. If wa'