The Twelfth Regiment is to leave for the war next week, it is said. One indication is that the Quartermaster advertises to sell all the lumber used in the construction of temporary buildings in camp, at auction.
Secretary Stanton is reported as having said that “the army must now earn its living.” The men are ready and impatient to do it.
The First Connecticut Battery of Artillery has embarked for Port Royal. They have Parrott rifled cannon. The total number of men is 154, and they take 134 horses and about ten tons of ammunition.
A volunteer writing from Ship Island gives the following bits of information: “Ship Island is about seven miles long, one mile wide, and abounds in bulls, hogs, coons, rattlesnakes, alligators, lizards and other affectionate animals.”
A letter from Camp Lyon, published in the New Raven Register, says that the 12th regiment will leave for Boston on Friday of this week. It may be so.
The 5th Connecticut regiment must have learned to march pretty well of late, as a soldier writes that the whole Division have been kept on a “regular trot.” He says the 5th have averaged about sixteen miles a day for the last 40 days.
The correspondent of the New York Times with Burnside’s expedition, mentions that on the New Brunswick transport, the Connecticut 10th had concerts, charades, theatricals and negro delineations on the passage down, under the lead of Capt. Benjamin Jepson of New Haven.
The Willimantic Journal, Willimantic, CT