Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-06-18
Recent Changes in North-carolina Troops.

Colonel vice att. W. Ransom, promoted Colonel
35th regiment ....
Tristrim L. Skinner, senior Captain First regiment,
to be Major vice John A. Mcdowell, promoted.
Major Bryan Grimes, Fourth regiment to be
Lieut. Colonel vice John A. Young, resigned.
Absoom X. Slmonton, senior Captain, to be Ma
Jor, vice Bryan Grimes, promoted (kllled at Rich
mond)
Captain Isaac E. Avery, 9th regiment to be Lieut..
Colonel vice Lightfoot promoted Colonel 22d regi-
nent, and killed at Richmond.
Colonel Fender having been promoted to Brig
adler Generalship, Lieut. Col Avery takes COM
mand of the 9th
Major William Martin, (late Professor in the
University North Carona) to be Lieut. Colonel
18th {" Bethel") regiment, vice William A. Owens,
promoted Colonel 53rd regiment.
Egbert A. Ross, senior Captain, to be Major 18th,
vice Martin, promoted.
Lieut.. Col. Benjamin o. Wade to be Colonel 18th
regiment, vice Solomon Williams transferred to
18th regiment End Cavalry.
Lieut.. Col Henry NJ Rutledge, 25th regiment to
be Colonel, vice Clingman promoted Brig General,
P. A. G. S. A.
Major Samuel c. Bryson, to be Lieut.. Colonel,
vice Rutledge, promoted.
John w. Francis, senior Captain, TO be Major,
vice Bryson, promoted.
Lieut.. Colonel David Coleman, 39th regiment to
he Colonel, Capt. Hugh Fl. Davidson Lieut.. Col
onel,-Reynolds, Major
Major Elisha Cromwell, 44th regiment to be
Lieut.. Colonel, vice R. @. Gotten, resigned.
Capt Tazewell L Hargrove, to be Major, vice
Cromwell, promoted.
Col Solomon Williams, 18th regiment to Col
onelcy 18th regiment (2nd Cavalry vice NJ. L.
Davis, deceased Charlotte Bulletin.
We copy the above for the information of our
readers, ard for the purpose of showing that in
every case of promotion, one the officer pro-
NOTED has gone up according to grade. The excep
ton is in the case Of Maj. Robert F. Webb, of the
9th regiment. He was Major of the 9th, and was
entitled to the place of Lieutenant Colonel as
as Col. Lightfoot was promoted to the command Of
the 22d; bot instead of this, Captain placed
over his head. And this, by the way, is not the
first time Maj. Webb has been treated unjustly. A
vacancy occurring while the regiment was COM
manded by Col. Fisher, he (Webb) being senior
Captain, made Major; and afterwards Col. Pen
der was appointed to command the regiment, thus
cutting off both Maj. Webb and Lieutenant Colonel
Lightfoot from the promotion to which they were
entitled But Maj Webb submitted to this without
! complaint, for the good Of the service.
Maj. Webb is we believe native of Baltimore
a mechanic and has resided IN this State about
eighteen years He served in the Mexican war, and
was promoted for good conduct. At the commence
ment Of the present he raised n company and
attached himself to the 9th regiment. He fought
bravely at Manassas and in the battle of the 3lst,
below Richmond; and for his gallant conduct in the
! late battle he specially compl:mented by Gen.
| Ponder, in his report just published. He is gen.
tIeman of more than ordinary intelligence, pleasant
! in his manners devoted to the cause, and compe.
: tent and experienced commanding officer. Where.
I Al,
treated? The only reason that can perceive for
it is that he opposed to disunon up to the pro-
clamaton of Lincoln He was not an original Sc
ceSsionist. Can that be the reason? We have
/ heard of no other, ard we know of no othes And
will the people approve of such conduct towards a
! brave and meritOrouS officer? We cannot believe
they will. Fellow citizens, the spirit which has
thus prescribed and degraded Robert F. Webb is at
war with all decency and justice. 1t is partzan,
selfish, exacting dOmineering spirit in the midst oil
war, and that too by those who ought to'treat the
late Union as equals and brethren but who. on
the contrary not only deprive them of their rights
as equals under 4 common government but encour
age their base venal, and INSCRIPTIONS minions tc
cast lInputatiOns on their integrity and loyalty II
is spirit which hangs like milestone the South
cause, and which, as it retards that cause aid
and supports the enemy. 1t is spirit which, in or
binary times, is to be deprecated and deplored but
in war it is infamous. Such a spirit would moi
only insult and injure the living, but it would bury
its friends first and leave those of its own armies
whom it considered its enemies to rot upon the fell
of battle. We denolnce it to the people, and We
call upon them to come forward and crush IL out, by
crushing out those who cherish and EXHIBIT it. Let
there be party spirit in the army, or in appoint
ments or promotions in the army. Go to the polls
fellow citizens when the time comes and vote fol
justice, and right and foryo country, by voting
against those who are prosti:uting the power which
has been cohided to them, and the'cause of South
ern independence itself, to the promotion of theil
own party schemes and selfish ends.