From The Greensborough Patriot
Jan. 9, 1862 – Pg. 1
For the Patriot.
In Camp 3rd Regt. N. C.
V.
Camp Ruffin Vs., Dec. 20th,
1861
Messars.
Editors:--Allow me through the columns of your excellent paper to return to the
Ladies of Alamance County, in behalf of the Alamance Regulators, our grateful
acknowledgements for numerous articles of clothing, blankets, &c, which
they have kindly sent to us.
How
pleasant for the Soldiers, to reflect that though the cheering smiles and the
sympathizing tears of the Ladies cannot be with us, yet their charity and
kindness follow us even to the tented field.
We
can truly say to our fair donors that we are proud to have the honor of
standing between them and the dastard foe and should it be our fate to fall on
the bloody field of carnage our last thoughts shall be of them and their noble
efforts to render us comfortable while we are in the service of our country.
J. A. Murray, Captain
Alamance Regulators
