1 Bucks County Intelligencer, Ringgold Regiment Leaves Camp Davis  Page B-TWENTY-THREE  Col. 2 1

 

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.

 

 

 

 

Courtesy of the Spruance Library of the Bucks County Historical Society, 84 South Pine Street, Doylestown, Pa. 18901, (215)345-0210


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