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The Daily Dispatch: January 1, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Louisiana St. Gar Crop. (search)
smooth barked black hickories, glossy twigged gums, scrubby dogwoods, and nearly every kind of wild growth, all densely crowded upon the slopes of the rolling hills, and in the narrow gorges on each side of the gentle Occoquan, present a landscape that, to an admirer of nature's beauties, cannot be otherwise than lovely. This forest, for the last four, weeks, has been musical with the sounds of axes, saws, and rumbling wagons, the result of the energetic exertions of the men under. General Rhodes's command to get their winter quarters completed before severe weather sets in. Quite a change, has been produced. Where there was nothing but woods, the hills are now thickly studded with pine-pole cabins, the cracks stopped with mud, and the chimneys built of the same material, with the assistance of sticks to hold it together. The encampment of each regiment presents the appearance of a smart little village of the backwoods. 'Twould make you feel as if our young men of the Sout