1                      Bucks County Intelligencer  LOCAL AFFAIRS  January 7, 1862  Page 3 Col. 2                      1

Colonel Davis request persons sending boxes of cloth-

ing or delicacies to the men of the Ringgold Regiment

not to place therein whiskey or intoxicating liquors of any

kind, as all such will be regarded as contraband of war

and seized by order of the commanding officer.  A box

which came to hand a few days ago contained two gallons

of whiskey.  Colonel Davis says that the only trouble he

has had in the regiment since it reached Washington was

caused by whiskey.  He has been compelled to punish a

few men for drunkenness and he has “ declared war

against whiskey while in the military service.”