Hillsborough (NC) Recorder
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Virginian and
Junction
P. O.,
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
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
THEODORE S. GARNETT
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--August 14—
[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]