The New York herald., 1862-07-20
The Ola Trouble Retween Virginia and
North Carolina.


The Old Trouble Retween Virginia and
North Carolina.
Tha. an c,,es cordiate between North Carolina and
virginia does not exist is evident One Of the many in
dces OF its absence will be found below. We call par
tcular attention TO the losses enumerated in the follow
inglettsr;--
[From the Wilmington IN. C) Journal, Jrly 81
We take the following extract, which we believe TO be
nearly II not wholly correct, and know TO have been in
tended 10 be absolutely from private lotter OF q
wounded friend who had been engaged in nearly all OF the
battles near Richmond The Richmond newspapers are
Virginia all over he complains, but We will say that
we have seen very generous Acknowledgements or
tho gaantvy aud services o troops from other states
To say that they did the same justice to them that
they would have done had they been vrg1ians, would
only be to expose ourselves to rdcue by representing
them doing wha, ybody knows is not possible for
Ricamond or Virginia papers to debut then 1 ,cas
1erois in the eee for thR 10 acknowledge he eriSt
cp Of not dsscled from Pocdtotds r sone o
the Fndan Princes. Our correspondent Is wounded and
ouerulous and little captous, else he would have ap-
preciaed the honor done his strip of land" by being
allowed and the F F. VS., especially those
of the city of Richmond which is great flour and to-
bacco We omit the introduction of the letter. and i'm
niediately come to general matters =
RICHMOND, Va, July 3, 1862.
DEAR FuLToS:--
The advance upon the enemy made in four columns
according TO orders Jackson started from Ashland
Stuart about four i've miles to his left, andvanced
another column, and Gen. Branch about six or eghht
or the army Of Richmond Branch's Brigade was the
first TO cross the chckahominy Marching down the
al III. o
"a. p Hnls) enabled to cross at Meadow Bridge.
The whole division then pressed on to Mechanicsve,
attacked and drove the enemy from the batteries com
manding that crossing. This enabled D. II. Hill and
I0ngsteet to with their divisions The next morn
ing Friday) the bat.criss about milo in the rear Of
to carry them the night before. Then a. Hill marched
over support jackson and Longstrest supported
The pursuit was continued till the enemy made his stand
at Coal Harbor. A. p Hill put his division right in, and
from four O'Clock till seven 1t engaged the enemy.
Renforcements were coming up constantly; but our
forces were generally outnumbered till Jackson camc
upon the ground between seven and eight O'Clock Then
united charge tho whole line with orders to FIRE but
single shot, and then give them the steel put tho enemy
to rout If acson had n arrived do mt Jeliepe that
,ocd hare driven the enemy from he field; but surely
some credit il due TO those who had been fighting for
three hours before his arrival and who joined him in the
Saturday was day Of rest, Sunday our division was
INV all day-continusd the pursuit Monday and joined
battle: still the advance DIVISION and Branchs brigade
the advance brigade on Monday afternoon. Tuesday
(;enera Lee had done share, and held
the reserve.
Now having marched further than any other brigade;
being tho beginning to the end the march
having fought ave pitched many days having
sustained terrible oss Is It not singular that the Rich
mOnd papers not dudre eren Of our eciscnee Too
thirds Of the brigade have been placed hors du combat Two
out or i've colones have been killed The other three
were wounded. Out Of twelve field officers, only two
and Thirty seventh suffered heavily.
The Seventh literally cut 20 pieces, losing largely more
than onehaf Of officers and men, The Eighteenth has
less than hundred fit for dutyconsderably less.
The three field officers were wounded eight out Of ten
company commanders were wounded. Only thirteen ont
of forty company officers are left for duty. The whole
brigade charged battery after battery yet they have
no newspaper correspondents attached to their regiments
their existence ID unknown.
North Carolina and Georgia furnished fully onohaf the
forces engaged the sores OF batesthity TO forty
regiments each-yet North Carolina and Georgia have
found place in the Richmond Go around among
the Wounded at the hospitals and private residences
YOU will nd i've II not ten, North Caronians vir.
gnian This has been told me by physicians in attend
sncs Yet Richmond papers pretend not TO knew it.
II is a crying shame-d piece Of urbiushing rascaiy
Governor Clarke ought get list Of killed and wounded
from the intelligence occ, and let the record speak for
the state.
Tho Yankees told tho truth when they said that North
Carolinans put in the front Of every battle They
are willing take the front, but they do like TO be
lied out Of their mered glory do not mean 70 speak
they did do all the ighng On the contrary, North
Carolina and Georgia each furnished more troops for the
defence of Richmond than Virginia did.
| have but single word to say. Bennett, OF the
HERALD with all his capacity Of brag and buster, and
lying is not Mt all ahead OF the Richmond cd
tors Richmond herself cheats out Of all our soldiers
pay and out Of all glory. II not for the loss "a
the Southern cause, Itoosfi just as the fdees had the
city as not 1t Yankee city In all that especially
stitutss Yankse-bra., bustcr, knavsry, cheating.
Truly your friend, -
COMMENT ON THE ABOVE.
from the Richmond Enquirer.l
10 the eminent merits claimed Dy1sths writer io'
We make objection wo doubt not they did their duty
good and brave soldiers for such they undoubt
edy arc The imputations upon Virginia she wei
afford bear Tho gross and low charges against the
Richmond editors are beneath contempt The accusation
against Richmond Is slander upon city which the
all this land that asked TO bc destroyed in batt
rather than yield 70 the enemy by captulaon. As cap
al Of tho confederacy and Commonwealth, Leg sla
nh pAad hat fHus A OH ka