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Intelligencer, Ringgold Regiment Leaves Camp Davis Page B-TWENTY-THREE Col.
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Ringgold Regiment
Leaves
Camp Davis
Jan. 7, 1862 — The Ringgold
Regiment has left Camp Davis
and moved into “Carver’s Bar-
racks” on Meridan Hall, about a
mile north of Washington.
In a letter of December 29,
1861, a soldier writes, “You have
no idea how comfortable our
room feels to us. You would not
perhaps think its rough board
walls and rafters very inviting,
but when compared with a tent
it is magnificent. It is plenty
large enough. We have a first
rate stove, which to hear it roar,
you would think was going out of
the window or up the pipe, and
as we stick our feet on it and
rear back, we cannot help but
pity the unfortunate wretches
whose lots are cast in tents
these cold night.”
Captain Shelmire’s Keystone
Cavalry is at Camp Custis, Vir-
ginia. Bucks County Intelligencer
Issues of December 31, 1861, and
January 7, 1862.
Isaac C. Hobensack of Warmin-
ster bought the Horatio G. Yerk-
es farm in Southampton of 88 ¾
acres for $125.50 per acre.
Rev. Jacob Belville of Harts-
ville gave the address at the ded-
ication of the Hatborough Revo-
lutionary Monument on Decem-
ber 5, 1861.
There is a Hartsville Soldiers’
Aid Society.