Hillsborough (NC) Recorder

July 31, 1861

Page 3

 

            Troops Moving—The Person Invincibles, a fine company raised in Person county, passed through here on Wednesday last, on their way to Gettysburg.  Another company from the west passed down on the same day.

            On Sunday night a regiment from Georgia, of 800 men, passed down on a train of cars for the rest of the war.

            A correspondent of the Fayetteville Observer says that 1800 troops from the South passed through Wilmington on Saturday last.

 

[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]