Greensborough Patriot

Aug. 28, 1862

Page 3

 

GEORGIANS AND NORTH CAROLINIANS—

            “P. W. A.,” the Richmond correspondent of the Savannah Republican, closes a long account of the recent battles around Richmond with the following paragraph:

            It is but the simplest justice to add, that the regiments from North Carolina and Georgia bore the brunt of the battle.  All the troops did well, and those from one State fought as bravely as those from another; but such were the numbers and position of the regiments from the states named that they were called upon to bear “the heat and burthen of the day.”  No Georgian or North Carolinian has intimated anything of this kind to me; but I hear it on the cars, in the streets, at the corners, and in the hotels—indeed wherever I go—and not from acquaintainces [sic] merely, but from strangers, and those who witnessed the conflict.  If this fact has not been made to appear before, it has been because the troops from those States had no one here to sound the trumpet of their praises, even if they had not modestly preferred to let their deeds speak for themselves.

 

[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]