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The Daily Dispatch: May 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], Correspondence. (search)
Correspondence.
The Fifth North Carolina Regiment,
Halifax, N. C., May 13th, 1862."> Editors of the Dispatch:
We have evidence here that the 5th Regiment North Carolina State troops behaved most gallantly and suffered severely in the battle of Williamsburg, on the 6th inst. We now indeed, that Lieut Snow, of Captain company, a now lamented citizen of county, was killed in the action, and we are heard that several other friends shared the same fate; and yet the Richmond papers have not taken the slightest notice of the regiment in connection with the fight.
We cannot but feel hurt at this neglect; it is, at last, due to the relations of the soldiers who here that the list of casualties should be published.
We have full confidence in our troops.
They are as gallant a body of men as ever trod the . In keeping with the character of our people, they do not seek notoriety, nor they retain camp followers to blazon their but this is no reason why they should be