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14th Vermont Surgeon’s Letter

Autograph Letter Signed, "L.D. Ross Acting Surgeon 14th Regt. Vt. Vol" 4p. octavo, Camp Vermont, December 6, 1862, and reads in part: "...I have been very busy...and expect to be more so since our chief Surgeon has been dismissed from the service. So that I am surgeon in chief & alone there being no other Assistant Surgeon. The old surgeon is an old foggy, a perfect old fuss & feathers. I am glad he is gone...We have just returned from picket duty at the front on the Occoquan Creek at Wolf Run Ford & so along up to Bull Run...We caught one or two Rebels and lots of fat cattle, pigs, poultry & sheep to eat....The people are sort of white negroes all talk, act & caclinate like niggers. They are destitute of everything. The richest have to live now on hoe cake, some potatoes, the whitest kind of butter and sugar but lots of cabbages. The soldiers live high on pork, hard crackers, coffee & what fresh meat we could manage to confiscate...I am in good condition for fighting & we expect to do some in the spring..." Fine.

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