From the Richmond Dispatch, 5/27/1861, p. 2
The Second Regiment N. C. Volunteers. - This
splendid Regiment of citizen soldiery - worthy representatives of the chivalry
of the Old North State - who have been for a week or two past encamped at
Howard's Grove, received marching orders yesterday morning, and in an hour
thereafter were on their way to the Petersburg depot, en route for the seat of
active operations near Norfolk. We cannot too highly praise the appearance of
the departing soldiers. The Regiment is splendidly armed - the men stout, and
used to fatigue, and full of a glorious spirit of determined resistance to the
tyranny that would fain bring into subjection this fair land of ours. They will
worthily represent on the battle-field the Southerner's idea of resistance. The
Regiment, all told, numbers about 1,300 men. - They are officered in a way to
leave no room to doubt that they will not put in their best licks against the
common enemy.
We append a list of staff and company officers:
Colonel, Solomon Williams, late of the U. S. Dragoons in
New Mexico; Lieut. Colonel Edward Cantwell, of Raleigh, served in Mexico; Major,
Hon. Aug. W. Burton, Senator from Cleveland county; Adjutant, C. A. Durham, of
the North Carolina Military Academy; Quartermaster, W. T. Alston; [remainder of
officers not transcribed]
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