Greensborough (NC) Patriot

January 22, 1863

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Is it so?

We have heard that the Confederate Government has determined to send Mallett’s Battalion to the field as soon as Col. Mallett recovers from the wound he received at Kinston, and that Col. August, from Virginia will be placed in command of Camp Holmes, near the city. We know nothing of Col. August, but we shall protest against any Virginian being sent here to command a camp in this state, for two reasons: First, we have North Carolinians who are competent to discharge the duties and secondly, we think Virginians will have enough to do to attend to their own conscripts, who, if report be true, have not been gathered up and put into camp with that promptness that every lover of our cause should desire.

--Raleigh Progress--