Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-01-21

No. Mole. lsff Extract 1'"a...s..-s 90. !
57.-Ordersd, That Major Gen. Hancock
be, and heiS hereby assigned to recruit and
fill up the I'd corps, of which he is com
mander, to the number of $4,000 men for
such duty as may be specially assiguedto
said corps by the Wsr Department. -..uls
By order of the Secretary of War. f14t
ESigned. 14.at u E. D. TOWNSEND,
,l.a.. Assistant Adjutant General. ia,
In connection with the above order of
the War Department it may be proper for
rs to say word or. two. w.. d"
The 7th West Virginia Regiment belongs
to the I'd corps, and it is the only West
Yirgiuia Organization that does: Gonse-
quently.it is the regiment to be filed, so
far. as the I'd corps. is concerned, from this
State, We are informed that the special
service for which the I'd corps is being
filed up to $4,000 men under command of
Major Gen. Hancock, is to comprise very
important movement. 2..'.
Our 7th Regiment has been reduced to q
small plumber in consequence of the service
it has seen in the way of battles and
marches. It has been In all the great en-
gagements of the Army of the Potomac,
such as Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chan
cellorsville, Gettysburg, &c. 1t numbers
now probably less than three hundred men,
ft for duty, consequently there is needed
four or five hundred recruits to fill the reg.
iment up to its minimum. All the recruits
from this State for the 7th Regiment must
necessarily come from new men, as under
the orders of the War Department to Gen.
Hancock, no veterans from other regiments,
who may be now reenlisting in the service
for three years. can be recruiyed for
the I'd corps. Only those soldiers now in
the corps can be re enlisted for it. '.s.- ",
1t is likely, from what we hear, that the
7th regiment will be sent home on a
furlough prior to re.entering the service
again, and we take this occasion to call
the attention of all persons entering the
service to this glorious regiment. A place
in its ranks is emphatiOally the post of
honor over and above 9. place in any other
regiment we have in the service, for the
reason that the 7th has seen more war
than any other regiment. Tho corps to
which it belongs, and in which it holds SO
honorable place, ia one of the most noted
in the army, and the duty for which it is
now filing up to $4,000 men is a special
duty, to be designated when the corps is
full, by the War Department, All recruits
furnished to the 7th get the high Govern
ment bounties, and are credited to the
town, county or township as the case may
be, just as in all other eulistments..a
The Raleigh IN. o. Standard is again
publishing and approving communica-
tons in favor of negotiations for peace
The Standard calls on the North Carolina
assembly to take action to that end, and
says: "Eow is the time for Craftsmanship
add moral courage. There are members
OF both houses of the general assembly
VINO possess not only moral courage in a
high degree, but information and exper-
fence as statesmen, which could be
brought to bear in this crisis in such n
way as to meet the expectations of thu
people in paving the way to an honorable
peace. We were in better condition to
negotiate three months ago than we are
now and it is not certain that we shall
achieve great victories, aud thus improve
our condition in this respect during the
next three mouths. Golden moments are
lying. II we attempt to negotiate and
TAIL, we shall be no worse off than we are
now. We may succeed but if we fail
after an honest aud earnest effort, our peo-
pie will then know what is in reserve for
them, and will band together as one man
to meet the enemy and tight to the last "
The Raleigh ProgreSS of recent date
says" "The beauties of secession, but
dimly seen at first, are becoming more
aud more vivid as the revolution advances.
and from present indications it will not be
long before he who runs may read. The
Communication of officers Of the army of
Tennessee read in the House of Repre-.
sentatives on Tuesday, shows that there
10 an alarming state of decentralization and
disatectlon in that quarter. If there is
to be dictator, Mr.. Foote wants General
Lee. We have as much condolences in and
respect for Gen. Lee as any man living {;
but we tell Mr.. Foote that the people Of
North Carolina, who set out to fight for
freedom and liberty, will not submit to a
dictator in, the person of any living man
while the power is left to resist"
From the I2th WeHt Va. Regiment,
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