The Weekly Panola Star

The sufferings of the Sixty days men.

Mon.

The fatiguing marches from one end to another, in Indiana and Kentucky, for the purpose of annoying the enemy and giving it a plain showing of faithful and successful intentions at the interesting engagements of the Army of the Tennessee. From a late letter of a late date, I learn that the pledge of remaining and aiding a day or any baggage this one alleged. Many regret entering the service, lest on all then be a whipped, me, edain. That is fated and oral to all in donating. I have dreamed in every man an eager haste days. In mn, the fighting days men came a new as any other men, when their tet game in this at. Approaching the culmination of the struggle to independence ends of the patriots of the South, in an hour of hardship, enduring and subdue. After ga. They left their warm homes in midwinter provided with every thing necessary in stand a winter camp. Pride, and going with inferior arms and equipments to meet the foe in a cold and inclement climate. Then were Polk's sleek, fat soldiers, well provided with corn and everything to make them comfortable, in their warm huts, inside the entrenchments, looking as well cared for as any hogs in a fattening pen. A line with the sixty days men, have? There they sleep for nights after night on the cold, frozen ground, without plank or straw to shield them from the frozen earth. And many a brave fellow enough for death. The army had been drained of blankets, and many a poor sick soldier had only a piece of them even to keep him warm at night. They have traveled on open cars through cold and sleet nights and days, long, heavy details dripping from the core, the rain like skin stinging particles at the wind whistled through the thin apparel that shall enoting wind. I remember it well - it seemed as if old Boreas himself was conspiring with the elements to heighten the hardships of the sixty days men. While many other poor fellows were shivering under their rags, many these little girls from home hanging in the sunlight play of Northern homes, to be placed with soft. And shock in camp language the associate days teensmolts lit the of old Boreas before one of them got back to their fires, tired & about 8 o'clock in our brigade, about one were mustered out of service at evening, the others sick furloughed, discharged, and some of them very dead. I have been to your Pensacola, wallowed in its sand, fought its sand-fleas, gnats and mosquitoes, and had the freckles burned on my cheeks while doing almost to death under its almost fervid sun, but not ever there have I seen, smelt, heard of or dreamed of the suffering and privation the sixty days men underwent. Old soldiers might have stood it, but as it was raw as whip leather. Besides, some lying accused us of dawdling, when we were three days going from Bogue Chitto to Union City, 23 miles, and never started until two hours after we received the order from Gen. Polk, if not reported present did not keep the from making an attack in Kentucky before this, it had one good effect - our experience will teach men hereafter they must go the whole hog when they go soldiering.

Do you know, Sam, they are telling about drafting up here? God forbid! that Mississippi, whose reputation is one retrieved by the brave fighting men she has sent out, should ever be forced to add the damning stain of a draft to that of rendition. Dodging be the way sixty days men were treated, drafted men might as well go to hell at once or soon as they draw the small numbers.

In truth, your friend, J. T. H.