Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-08-07
Correspondence of the Raleigh standard.
CAMr Bee, NEAR MANAssA JrNCrroN, VA

July %. 1861.
MR EprToR: After Incredible toll and hardships,
and sleeping on the ground for week, we have at
last received cur tents and baggage, and are now
snugly quartcred. There is news of much i'm
portancc; 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
stftn their legs for certainly they can outrun any
race of people that have stretch legs
terra tirma. 1t has been said that the yankees will
not fight; we'll this is bad mistake and If any
troops come from North Carolina under the apprc-
hcnsiOn that they will have fight they will be
mistaken for they fought us with bravery worthy
of better cause for ten hours and we whipped them
BY hard fighting. Our 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 ~ 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 1t Sherman'S, but
Capt Rickett was wounded and taken prisoner and
said it his battery, and that first fire killed
every horse, and killed or wounded the canoneers
so that he could not fire the pieces Had it not been
cried out that we were firing ON friends" we would
have swept the field.
1t was near this battery, and in advance of his
men, that the lamcnted Fisher fell Our loss of him
was n serious and irreparable one. No man ever
loved his men more than he and none abOred 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 inces-
SAINT for the soldiers. On the march from Strasburc
to Winchester he walked all the way, giving both
his horses to sick soldiers and when we were thrown
into line OF battle, hungry and thirsty on foot he
wi tlp c,ll -
show them where the water waS-thcn went back
to Winchester helped to cook our supper himself,
and then did the same again at breakfast. These
things rIve;ed the affection of the men, and death
itself can eradicate from their hearts the mem
DRY of our gallant Colonel, the lamented Fisher
When we left Winchester on a forced march to Join
Beauregard, when he read the orders of Gen. John
son, the wekn 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 an V.
where and did follow him to the lannon's mouth.
Others may have excclled him in the minute Of
tactics but none eXceed him in bravery Gallan,
and brave, he almost courted death but fell in the
hour of victory, lanented by his men, He went n
the field determined that he would,
las victor exult, in death be laid low"
His last words were IRE 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 a
fight, though certainly should relish one some SIM
day soon; but think they have pills enough to last
them awhile.