The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-14

ity of movement 1t is believed that no
other regiment, then or afterwards, was
set out in the field in such style as the
First North Carolina Volunteers when
they were mustered ON the plain of York
town i'm the last week of May.
Such was the Judgment, also. of inn
martial critics. The Petersburg (VlrglnGa)
Express of Monday, May % 1861, con-
tanned the following:
Three Companies of the First Regl-
ment of North Carolina Volunteers
the Fayetteville independent Infantry
Capt. Huske; the Fayetteville Light In
fantry, Capt. Starr, both from Fayette-
vile, and the Southern Stars, Capt. Hoke,
from Lincoln county, arrived IN this city
by special train from Raleigh at 1880
O'Clock on Saturday evening. Each conf
pany had its full complement of 100 men,
thoroughly armed and in the best spirits.
If we may form an opinicn of the whole
regiment by the material and appearance
CT the above three companies, we should
unhesitatingly pronounce it to be one OF
the finest i'll the world. North Carolina
marshals her bravest and her best for the
coming contest, and sends to Virginia
men who will uphold and transmit with
cut blemish to pOsterity the honorable
and enviable glory and fame of their
patriotic sires. Drilled to perfection and
armed to the full-with brave hearts to
lead and brave hearts to follow-they will
do their duty, and that nobly."
The same paper of Wednesday. May
ODD, said
1.-The remainder of the First Regiment
of North Carolina Volunteers, number
ing seven companies and over seven
hundred men, reached this city last night
in extra trains, about s o'clock. .
Without drawing invidious distinctions,
we must say that this is the best equip
ped regiment which has yet made its
route through our city. Everything seems
to have been provided for them that a
soldier could desire ~rrms, accoutrements,
knapsacks, haversacks. canteens-in fact,
nothing is wanting"
Said the Richmond Examiner of Thurs
day, May 23d, 1861
without waiting for the form of a
legal secession, the State of North Caro-
lima commenced sending her gallant sons
to join those who were already in the
tented field. On Wednesday morning the
rest of the regiment (of which the first
installment arrived on Saturday night,
amounting to seven hundred, reached
this city 10y the Southern road, at /
O'Clock. They We're soon formed into line
and marched through the city, i'll SPLEEN
did style, to the airs of II fine band. Those
who saw their close columns and steady
march as they moved down Main street,
in perfect order, their polished muskets
glistening in the moonlight, with none of
the usual attendants of loafers and ne
groes crowding upon the ranks. describe
the scene as almost spectral i'll its APP
pearance, 50 regular and orderly were its
movements"
The value of these voluntary testimo-
mails from the newspapers of the capital
State will be apparent when it IS remem-
bered that nearly all the troops which
had come to Virginia from the original
Confederate State, had passed over the
same Petersburg and Richmond highway.
The fact that the troops of those States
had been organized and drilled for at
least six months and desired war, accen-
tuates the achievement of North Carolina.
which deal with men who We're private
citizens month before, and who for the
most part were opposed to war.
Nor was expert testimony lacking TO
the same effect.
(T0 be Continued Next Sunday.1