Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-01-23
The eighth virginia regiment.

Editors Lnteliiyemcer: ias
We learn that the 8th Virginia regiment
has turned up at BuchanuOn, in Upshur
county; doubtless those in authority, whose
privilege and duty it is to know why it was
removed from the Kanawha Valley at this
time, find sufficient explanation in those
very potent and comprehensive words
" military necessity" and of course all
parties should be satisfied. But that such
necessity should have existed at this time,
is much 20 be regretted; this regiment al
though nercr fully organized was taken
from the kanawha Valley in the early part
OF last year, and placed in the most dan
gerOus positions in Gen. Fremont's expedi-
tion and retreat in the Valley of Virginia,
and then underwent much hard service
under Pope and others in the eastern part
of the State, being in active engagements
with the enemy nearly every day for several
weeks together, until it was reduced TO a
mere skeleton, when, at the urgent impor-
tunities of Gov. Peirpoint, Mr.. Whalcy
and others, it was permitted to return to
the kanawhn Valley, for the double purpose
of protecting their friends-the Union citi-
zens of that section, and of recruiting and
organizing their regiment. In which latter
purpose they were succeeding beyond their
uOSl ShuRuIuG c4peClALIOuS, as UNDER
stand, and although reduce to some three
or four hundred men, or perhaps less when
they arrived at the Kanawha Valley,
they would have been filled up aud fully
organized in less than week. From the
time the order was given to move, regret
to say that some desertions have been the
result.
The Sth are almost exclusively composed
of the hardy mountuineers of the Kanawha
country, well skilled in the use of the rifle
and fully acquainted not only with all the
roads and hypaths of that mountainous
country, but also with the proclivities and
sntecedents of all the inhabitants, knowing
tHeir friends from their foes, whatever
might have been their professions of loyal
ty. Hence the inveterate hatred and terror
entertained towards them by the secession
lists and secession sympathizers in our val
ley, which some think may have had much
to do with their removal; for it is fact not
to be denied, thaHmany of our higher, Off
GERS have been made (either the willing or
unwilling) victims of the iusidious insiuu.
atiOns and intrigues of these wiley sympa
thizers to secure their selfish purposes at
the expense of the Union cause. -
Military necessity, as above stated, NAV
justify this removal, but certain it is, had
the interests and wishes of the loyal peo-
pie of the KanNwha Valley, been consulted
it would not have been done. The Union
loving people of this region feel much more
secure while guarded by men whose inter-
ests and associations are so intimateIyc con.
nected with and identified with their own
than they would under twice their number
who are not identified, and it is hoped that
so soon as "the military necessityh which
required their removal shall have passed
away, that the boys of the 9th will be per-
protecting their own loved ones in' the Kan.
awha region, and prevent, if possible, the
many murders, robberies and insults per-
petrated upon them by the uuprincipled
minions of JEFF Davis, Letcher & Co., in
that region, at least until their ranks can
be filed and their regiment .orgauized.-
Moreo Yer it might be Suggested that how
ever much military necessity might dictate