Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-17
CAMP LAUREL HILL, July 4, 1861.
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CAMP LAUREL HILL, July 4, 1861.
To lie Editor Of The Uhig:-
SIR-You will allow me, know, to oc-
cupy a small space in your journal, giving,
i'll as condensed form as possible, AN OUT
line of the condition of the goth regiment
of Virginia volunteers now at this camp,
fifteen miles south of Phillippi, under
command of Lieut.-COl. Pegram, and some
OF the grievances that have severely attii ict-
ed this gallant corps since taking up the
line of march in Richmond. No one,
trust, could be more sensible than myself
OF the distracted condition of our beloved
country, nor of the long train of inconVe.
niences that must attend a civil war-nor
more willing than myself TO make heavy
sacrifices, in times like the present, when
the very pillars of liberty totter to their
base, and the sacred soil of WashingtOn's
birth place and home bears the footprint
of the mercenary Vandals of the North
But when brave spirits have left their
homes and families, whom tuey love next
to their country, to march on foot over
wild, mountainous, and, you may say, un-
inhabited country, to vindicate the honor
of their old Mother State, it is nothing
more than right that they should be pro-
vided with such necessuries, not to say
comforts, as they are entitled to, and to
which the State has put into the hands of
certain so-called officers, for their use and
benefit This corps left Richmond three
weeks ago, and out of eight companies
constituting the regiment, only three were
provided with tents. No doubt the cap
tuins of such as were not provided for
made acquisitions for tents in due time be-
fore leaving Richmond, outstanding
which, if we are correctly informed, requi-
sitions for tents from other quarters have
been filled, though made subsequently to
the demand of the Goth Regiment. Now,I
would first like to know whether this is
correct; if so, great wrong must rest on
the shoulders of some person or persOns.-
If the above statement be not. correct, then
the question is presented whether every ef-
fort has been made by those in power to
furnish these tents. Having been an eye wit
ness to the hardships endured by this Reg
Inent, from the moment we commenced
the march from Staunton to tue present
time, we having now been in camp at this
post two weeks, l am prepared to state
with accuracy, that | have seen enough to
awaken the liveliest sympathy in the ho-
som of the most obdurate and Indifferent
person on earth. We have had a great
deal of rain, and situated as the camp is,
in marshy valley, in the far Northwest of
the State, where the temperature is, par
ticularly at night, very low, you will read
lily conceive the great danger to which the
men must necessarily be exposed, and The
amount, and type of disease, that must
prevail. At this moment there are nu-
merous cases of disease resulting from
exposure to all kinds of weather, with
nothing but Il bark, or brush hut,to shelter
the heads of the gallant spirit who are
anxiously awaiting an opportunity to
prove themselves men worthy of better
care at the hands of those for whose fire.
sides they are willing to lose their lives
There are several poor men OF great re-