Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-12-09
90 unp..e.io for body Of y.uus ..u 70 r.s.rd .s.h

too unpstretc for body Of young nsu 70 regard selfish
ends when their country greatly in need Of their SER
vices Besides that the kind ladies' Of the University
and vicinity had mads their uniforms nearly oeuPls<,
aud 1t would have shown poor appreciation Of their
kindness even to have refused to 60 under any crcum
stances.
On the 4th of July, the day on which the session
closed, the company numbering about fly, left the
West and reached Lsvisburs shortly Aer Tren thence
4. Vas ordered to Gsulsy Bridge where Ii mustered
into service. Since that time 10 hes been In service under
Gen. wisss command Il hes undergone and endured oil
the hardshps and prvatons to which the troops In the
West have been subject. Il has asked vors 1T has
shrunk from no responsibility. Until vs reached Sew.
ell mountain on the last retreat about the 18th Of ser
tember the company enjoyed comparatively very good
health as 1t had no. been subject with few exceptions
to the measles which had reduced many other COM
panies in the command. From that time until the
present the health Of the company has declined, not
from the ordinary diseases of camp but the more ma
gaant, such a. pneumonia, typhoid fever or typhoid
pneumonia, and though only one member (Hr. Harmon
Diuviddie, Of Albemsrle) has died-uhich Wa indeed
loss enough for any one company 70 susain-yet there
has at no time since been than twenty or twenty
ve men, rank and ale, present for duty-n fact our
morning reports show only twelve men present for
duty while the Others With few exceptions are absent
sick Considering the present state Of the company, the
mprobabiity-nay, almost the impossbility-of Ito
growing better, II has been deemed best for the men
as well the Confederate service to get II possible, the
company disbanded-for the men, because those who
are ct present sick will have sufficient time to recruit
their health entirely while those Who well may avoid
the scknsss 10 which they are subject daily for the
Confederate service, because though the men, CON
psny will BE- Of service, yet individual efforts vii
not subside, As those Of tried efficiency will agair
enter the SERVICE not now certainly for the couiDs
campaign, and sro5sbly raise for the service severa
companies besides, the Government will not be under
tho necessity Of supporting company which can il
is present condition, render but little service.
But say they, why not recruit the company or jolr
is with some other company reduced to the same con
dition' Such thing would no. only be disagreesbls
to those who might desire to join as recruits, for there
few very few, Of college mates Who would dc
So but repugnant to the esprit dU corps of the com
piny Besies, il 1t 10 conceded il must be- that the
company, when dispersed throughout the army, would
render the service to their country would II no,
be better, inasmuch as they would endure merely the
ordinary hazards Of war;
This is fair statement Of the may state thu.
some of the members Of the company will return to
College this winter others will again enter the Coufed
crate service Immediately while oil will do 30 next spring
IL the past campaign has not impaired their health a.
to render such thing suicidal.
An 0yyIorR or rHI "USIvrRsIrr VOLUNTEER"
RIcaNosD, Va, Dec. z, '6l.