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The Daily Dispatch: October 13, 1863., [Electronic resource], Letter from Western Virginia. (search)
d this is specially true in the mountains. Certainly nowhere else is the autumnal foliage so varied and so glorious in its hues. Whether it is due to the peculiarity of the trees or of the climate, I do not know; but though I have often in Eastern Virginia enjoyed the scenery of autumn, I have never witnessed such glories as now surround me. Yonder is a tree which is not unlike a large bouquet. Its symmetrical form is varied with emerald, and golden, and purple. Methinks a giant need not deste this country they will not only meet a stern, organized resistance, but be bush whacked as they never have been before during the war. Fruit through this region is abundant. The soldiers here can have for the gathering what those in Eastern Virginia could not buy for their wages. Everywhere one sees the loaded apple trees, and witnesses the operations of cider-making and boiling apple butter. Nor will these sweet- toothed farmers suffer from the fall of Vicksburg. They have their app