Hillsborough (NC) Recorder
August 14, 1861
Page 3
Virginian and North Carolina Irrepressibles
Junction
P. O., Hanover County, Va.
July 29th, 1861
Under this name it
is proposed to get up a regiment of ten companies, of 100 men each, including
officers, making 1,000 men. We are to
use citizens’ clothes, and to use such arms as we can furnish ourselves—a pair
of Colt’s pistols, a bowie knife and a double barrel gun, with a Minnie ball or
a good rifle; to pledge ourselves to serve during the war wherever the
President may choose to place us; to serve without pay.
The main object of
this organization is to avenge the death of Gen. Robert S. Garnett of Virginia, and Col. Charles F. Fisher of North Carolina.
Those who wish to
form such a regiment, will signify their ascent by writing to me at the above
post office, and when we have 500 men we will report ourselves for duty, and go
on increasing our number until it amounts to 1,000.
The design is that
the number shall always be kept up by new enlistments whenever vacancies occur
by death or inability, and no other cause shall release a man from his
obligation. I will act as private, or in
any capacity the regiment may direct.
When our number reaches five hundred, we will request the President to
appoint a Colonel of his own selection, and muster us into service at Richmond. I will advertise the time of the meeting
there as soon as I receive the names of five hundred men. Each company will choose its own captain and
subordinate officers.
THEODORE
S. GARNETT
The newspapers in Virginia
and North Carolina
will doubtless publish the above without charge, for three weeks.
--August 14—
[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]
