Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-08-07
Correspondence of the Raleigh Standard.
CAMP BEE, NEAR MAxAssA JUNCTION. Val

July %, 1851.
Mr. EDITOR: AFTER incredible tolls and hardships,
and sleeping on the ground for week, We have at
last received our tents and baggage, and are now
snugly quartered. There is news of much i'm.
portance; we are simply waiting for another festival
on Sunday when the Yankees come to see us again,
and when they do come back again, hope they
will come by forced marches as to tire them, and
stifen their legs for certainly they outrun any
race of people that have seen stretch legs
terra frma. 1t has been said that the yankees will
not fight; well. this is bad mistake and If any
troops come from North Carolina under the appre-
hension that they will have no fight they will be
mistaken; for they fought US with bravery worthy
of better cause for ten hours and whipped them
by hard fighting. Our men took deliberate aim,
and brought them to the ground and, moreover, we
walked right up to them, and did not stand off at
half mile distance. Our regiment was led up by the
gallant Fisher within 40 yards and we silenced the
battery the first fire. The battery was Ricketts, and
not Sherman's We all thought it was Sherman's,
and some of the Yankees said it was Sherman's but
Capt Rickett was wounded and taken prisoner and
every horse, and killed or wounded the canoneers
SO that he could not fire the pieces Had itnot been
cried out that were firing on friends" We would
have swept the field.
1t was near this battery, and in advance of his
men, that the lsmented Fisher fell Our loss of him
WASH serious and irreparable one. No man ever
loved his men more than he, and none labored for
them as he. There was nothing that he would not
do for his men, the lowest private in the ranks
While others might pride themselves upon their
rank he felt as man, though he acted as soldier
He never was with the Regiment until at Raleigh,
and on our way to Virginia his labors were nces-
SAINT for the soldiers. On the march from Strasburg
to Winchester he walked all the way, giving both
his horses to sick soldiers, and when were thrown
into line Of battle, hungry and thirsty on foot he
went with the men, his hands full of canteens, to
show them where the water was-then went back
to Winchester, helped to cook our supper himself,
and then did the same again at breakfast. These
things rveted the affection of the men, and death
itself eradicate from their hearts the mem.
ory Of our gallant Colonel the lameuted Fisher
When we left Winchester on forced march to ioin
Beauregard, when he read the orders of Gen. John
son, the welkin rang with cheers, and when he re-
turned from the left wing after reading the orders
there, from the whole line, as one man, there went
up three cheers for Col Fisher that spoke for them
selves. His regiment would have followed him any.
where, and did follow him to the lannon's mouth.
Others may have excelled him in the minutiae of
tactics but none excelled him in bravery Gallant
and brave, he almost courted death but fell in the
hour OF victory, lamented by his men. He went to
the field determined that be would,
." As victor exult, or in death be laid low"
His last words were 'Jire on The battery"
May the sod lie light on his breast; and his mem.
DRY shall be cherished by his men as one who knew
how to die like soldier.
We are At present engaged only in the usual rou.
tine Of camp duty, and with but little prospect Of
hght Though eertainy should relish one some Sun.
day soon but think they have pills enough TO last