Hillsborough Recorder

August 21, 1861

Page 2

Virginia and North Carolina Irrepressibles

Junction P. O., Hanover County, Va.

July 20, 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 500, 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 meeting 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]