Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-11-08
The First Regiment Virginia Noun
ted Volunteers.
CAMP NEAR FuRr Scorr. D. C. \
Nov. 4th, 1862. 7

Editors EateltgSneer:
As do not see our regiment mentioned
10 your paper, or noticed in any other, At
most not often, have come to the couclu-
sion to let you, and, if you think proper TO
publish this, your readers know that there
is now in the service. and have done good
service, the First Regiment Virginia Noun
ted Volunteers. Perhaps those at home
who have friends in this regiment will be
glad to learn that it is still in existence,
which they would not know from home
papers; for. while other regiments have
been Landed, this has scarcely been men,
toned, aud If so, without word of praise.
] think " honor to whom honor is due" is
right, aud think onr regiment should be
noticed, or at least some little notice taken
Of what we have done and are still doing
toward putting down this accursed rebel
lion. We have been in the service of our
country more than year, Travelled or
marched many miles, been in several en-
ghgements with the enemy, been on picket
duty, or scouting aud accommodating par
ties most of tue time, over mountains aud
through rivers and smaller streams, &c.
Our regiment. or n part of it, have met
the enemy Mt Romuey, Blues Gap, Bloom
cry. Winchester, Gaines Cross Roads, Port
Republic, Cedar Mountain. Kel!ey's Ford,
Waterloo Bridge, Thoroughfare Gap. and
the last celebrated charge and skedaddle at
Bull Run; also ut Moorefield, and the charge
into and through Salem and White Plains,
between Gen. Jackson's Division of the
rebel army, and Lougstreet's, taking over
seventy prisoners, and u nice mule team,
then falling back to Warrentou, just in time
to save our bacon; and our thiuGet sanks
show that We have left many OF our h7ave
fellows on the battlefield, or in The hands
of the enemy. We all know by experience
the whiz of the she'll. the buzz OF the can
non ball; the hum OF pieces Of railroad
iron; the sound of canister, grape, aud the
whistle of the mimic ball
We Supported battery at the German
town fight, one Of the most severe battles
of the war; over FIVE hundred men were
killed 10 one charge, not over twenty min
utes time, aud the LIST Va. Cavalry stood up
to it without Aiuching, like veteran SOL
diers. We have marched dars with moth
ing but crackers to eat, and not very Plen-
~ of them, aud that without complaining.
We are now encamped opposite Wash
iugton City, near Fort Scott, aud nearly all
of our boys are out at Chantilly near Cen
treviile, on duty, with our gallant Major
Chamberlain, while some are on patrol
near Mt. Vernon, and Lieut.. Boone of Com
pRny B, has q squad with him on picket
duty. The appearance of our boys aud
their brouEed cOuntenance shows that they
are no kid glove soldiers. Three or four
companies of our regiment are near Centre
Vile under the command of Mai Crops.
Company a has gone to Weston Va, and
seven companies are here under the Com
mand of the brave Col. Richmond. Our
Adjutaut, all the boys like hi II, is going
home aud will be in Wheeling We have
some brave and genIlemanly company Off
GERS, but our ranks have been SO lhinned
that think that they should be filed up,
or the companies consolidated, for three
commissioned officers, IF they attend to
their business, can manage, govern, aud
command one hundred men as well as they
do twenty. thirty, or City, and some of our
companies have less than ffIy men there
fore, think that our regiment should be
consolidated in TO less companies, or the
companies filed up to something near a
hundred men.
The most of our boys are in good heart
looking forward for the dimes, as they have
not been paid 10 four months, aud as the
pay-rolIs are made out, they would greet