Hillsborough (NC) Recorder

August 7, 1861

Page 4

 

            The Sixth North Carolina Regiment went into the battle of Manassas without having eaten anything from Saturday morning, and the gallant fellows were without food until the battle was over, at nightfall, when President Davis ordered provisions to them, and they supped and bivouacked on the field, being unable from exhaustion, to go into camp.  They were part of the brigade which the lamented Kirby Smith brought from Winchester on the cars, and which, through the decision and rapidity of movement, appeared in the battle at a critical moment and did so much to turn the scale.

                                                                                    --N. O. Delta—

 

[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]