1             Bucks County Intelligencer  A Bucks County Regiment.  August 27, 1861  Page 3 Col. 1             1

 

LOCAL AFFAIRS.

REPORTED FOR THE INTELLIGENCER.

A Bucks County Regiment.--Captain W. W. H.

Daivs, commander of the Doylestown Guards during their

late campaign of three months, visited Washington last

week and received authority from the Secretary of War to

raise a regiment of volunteers to serve for three years or

during the war.  He obtained from the War Department

full authority to form his regiment of ten companies of

one hundred men each, and to muster them into the

United States service himself, by single companies.  He

will then obtain from the Quartermaster at Philadelphia

all needful equipments and supplies.  A camp of instruc-

tion will be formed at or near Doylestown, probably at

the old exhibition ground, where the officers and men will

be throughly drilled and instructed previous to their de-

parture for the seat of the war.  Capt. Davis is authorized to

provide a battery of light artillery, to be attached to his

regiment, together with a full band of music.  It is desira-

ble that as many of the companies as possible shall be

formed in Bucks county, so that only those necessary to

full up the regiment may be drawn from abroad.  Those

who design to form companies for this regiment should go

to work without delay.  Colonel Davis is a competent and

experienced officer, and those who go under his command

may be sure of being well provided and cared for during

their term of service.  Throughout his recent campaign,

he was deservedly popular among all with whom he came

in contact, and he will experience no difficulty whatever

in filling up his ranks from other counties, should the en-

listments in Bucks be insufficient.  A meeting to advance

the project will, be held in Court House on Friday

evening.


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