Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-06-12
North Carolina Troops I'm Virginia.

North Carolina Troops in Virginia.
We make the following extracts from the cores
pendent of the Petersburg Express The letter
giving account Of the condition of the End Reg-
ment near Norfolk, is distressing. Why is it they
have no better accommodations? If they are to be
stuck down into mud-hole in that sort of style,
Gov Ellis had better recall them. The Colonies
and other officers should look closely to the health
and comfort of our regiments. Their lives are
greatly at their disposal and if they do not provide
for them as well the exigencies of the times and
circumstances allow, their blood will be upon them
The fate of the North Carolina troops in the war of
1872, at Norfolk, is not forgotten. Many have a
mortal aversion to going there There are surely
better positions in that neighborhood for regiment
than the one they were at on the 9Th inst. If the
facts of the letter too highly colored not
strictly correct the impression it will create ought
to be corrected at once. Hear what the correspon-
dent, St Claude, says and let proper inquiries be
instituted into their condition. Our patriotic vol
unteers must not be neglected or their health and
comfort slightly cared for. They have taken their
lives in their hands to fight for their native State
and she must take care of them and their families
at home:
GRANVILLE GREYs I'd N. c., Rect,
NEAR NORFOLK, VA, June 6, 1861.
Dear Express: Amid rain and mud have seat
ed myself to pen you few items, and will do so if
| am not prevented by the animated conversation
now going on around me. One at my right says
81 wish some one would give Gov Ellis fits" An
other asks "why" and the reply is, she promised
before left Raleigh that we should not be sent
to the seaboard especially Norfolk"-on account of
the unheathiness of the location for men raised in
the mountains. There are many other troops equal
ly acceptable who would be delighted to be quarter
ed here with the prospect of spending the summer
Yet we from the hills are sent here We are camp
ed in a pocoson-and a minister now in our camp
saws the water is three inches deep level around
our camps. The men are passing with turns of
pine tops well saturated in rain, upon which they
will sleep tonight sciM the hope Of being found in
the norning. They will rest upon such ararats in
case of another deluge tonight.
The best water we have had since We have been
here is the rain water now dipped up out of the mud
holes around US. In this respect we are fortunate
Half Of our tents without floors, notwithStand-
ing Quartermaster has used every effort to pro-
vide them-his acquisitions have, with few excep-
tons, been disregarded.
Our provisions mot many) are now lying in the
woods exp sed to the rain. Our lndomitable Com
missary having repeatedly made acquisitions for a
picket house in which to store them. His reouisi-
tons have met the same fate of nearly every other
from cook to Colonel Indeed we have suffered
many hardships since we have been here; yet our
men have submitted with becoming resignation
and now they only ask that their friends at home
may know their real situation-to them we appeal
for relief
The Surgeon has informed me that there were
this morning 40 men under medical treatment
Yet when the alarm was beat at 10 o'clock, and we
hoped to have an opportunity to return home, after
having wiped out the enemy whom we expected
were marching upon u.s. only four men were left in
the hospital. We now ask our friends at home if
such men are not entitled to better treatment?
The correspondent Brock" of the Petersburg
Express gives the following particulars about the
Sd Regiment:
SUFFOLK, Va, June z, 1861.
Dear Express: have scarcely anything new to
communicate to-day. All is quiet about this place
The weather has been rainy and damp, and there
are several cases of sickness in the camp of the
North Carolina Volunteers; no case however, of a
serious character
The Sun is out this morning upon the sharpers
who have been specializing the soldiers here and
l have just learned that Col Fender has issued an
order forbidding any of them to enter the camp of
the North Carolina Volunteers The order is no
doubt good one.