1                                           From Camp Lacey.   October 29, 1861  Page 2 Column 2                                           1

 

From Camp Lacey.

[Correspondence of the Bucks County Intelligencer.]

CAMP LACEY, DOYLESTOWN, Oct. 28th, 1861.

Nearly every family in Bucks county is represented in

the Ringgold Regiment.  So I think that a short letter

from Camp Lacey will be of interest to the readers of the

Intelligencer.  The Ringgold Regiment, as every visitor

to the camp will testify, is composed of as fine a class of

men as the Government will have in service.  Of course,

the best men of the county are here.  What young man

possessed with a reasonable share of intelligence and pa-

triotism can be satisfied to remain quietly at home, when

his country needs his help to save it from ruin?

I am glad that our country has responded so nobly.  A

glance at the Adjutant’s books shows 1050 men in camp. 

I venture to say that no regiment has left home, better

equipped and in every way prepared for service, than is

the Bucks County Regiment.  The arms are good; the

clothing very good.  All are now supplied with blankets;

overcoats of the best quality will be here to-day.  Colonel

Davis has done well his part.  He has procured for his re-

giment the best of everything the Government can furnish. 

The citizens of the county have done, and are still doing,

very much to prepare the soldiers for the hardships that

await them; and if the men that are receiving these ben-

efits are not already grateful for the favors, the time will

soon come when they will be.  Company C—the McClel-

lan Rangers (of which I can tell you more about than any

other)—will soon be fully prepared for any thing that the

future may bring.  The soldiers that compose this company

are New Hope, Solebury, Buckingham, Northamp-

ton, Southampton, and Warminster, with a few good men

from Montgomery county.  They each posses the quali-

ties of a true soldier—intelligence, temperance and cour-

age.  Their friends have been very kind in furnishing

them everything they need for their comfort.  Every man

has a good gun blanket, oil cloth havelock with a cape to

it to keep the neck and shoulders dry, warm gloves, tow-

els, combs, &c  Next week you will hear from us again,

when I will be able to give you more of the particulars of

Camp Lacey.                                     W. W. M.