Hillsborough (NC) Recorder
June 16, 1861
Page 3
THE
4TH N. C. REGIMENT—A letter from Portsmouth, Va.,
12th inst, in the Richmond Examiner, says that “The Fourth North
Carolina Regiment came down to Suffolk, from Gettysburg, yesterday, and are in
camp there. They are solicitous to have
orders Richmond-ward, and thence to the Peninsula
to join the gallant First, which is said to have led in the late battle here.”
TROOPS—The
Person Grays, Capt. Dillahay, and the McDowell Boys,
Capt. Burgin, arrived at Raleigh on Thursday evening. The Person Grays went on the Gettysburg.
A
British brig of 400 tons came into Beaufort
Harbor on Monday to
obtain a cargo of naval stores. She will
get the cargo. Our boys at Fort Macon,
when they first saw her thought they might get a chance for a brush, but the
sight of British colors dispelled the hope.
Hon.
John Bell spoke on the 5th inst., at Knoxville, Tenn.,
to the Louisiana
troops, urging war to the death against the North, declaring that five million
of soldiers cannot conquer the South.
It
is said that Lincoln
will demand of his Congress an appropriation of $150,000,000 for the war.
The
City council of Richmond
has purchased a residence for President Davis, at $50,000.
OLD
SURRY—This County has about 1500 voters and has ready for service about 500
volunteers.
