1         Bucks County Intelligencer, From the Ringgold Regiment. December 10, 1861  Page 3  Col. 1         1

 

From the Ringgold Regiment.—Considerable anx-

iexty has been caused among those who have relatives of

friends in the Ringgold Regiment, by the intelligence

that the varioloid or small pox has appeared among the

men.  One of the first men attacked was Lieutenant Kep-

hart, of Company B.  He was immediately conveyed to

the hospital, and being well cared for, is now recovering,

in all there have been some fifteen or twenty cases, but

none of them have been very serious, and no fatal results

have been anticipated.  All the officers and men of the

regiment have been vaccinated, to guard against further

infection.  It is probable that the crowded tents and un-

cleanly habits of some of the men prepared the way for

the disease.  We are assured that there is now no occasion

for alarm.

Captain George T. Harvey, who has charge of the re-

cruiting business for the Ringgold Regiment, made a visit

to Washington last week on the occasion of the paying off

of the men.  He returned on Thursday evening, bring-

ing with him nearly two thousand dollars that had been

entrusted to him by the soldiers to deliver to their friends

at home.  He was accompanied home by James M. Rog-

ers, Commissary Sergeant of the regiment, who has been

on the sick list with cold and fever for a week past.

The whole regiment was paid off, each man who enlisted

about the time of the organization of the companies re-

ceiving pay for one month and a fraction of a month.—

Most of the men received pay for nineteen days in the

month of September and the whole of October, amounting

to $21 for each private.  A few were paid for a longer

period and others for a shorter time, according to the date

when they were mustered into service.  On the first of

January two more months’ pay be due, when they

will make a big haul.  The men were paid in gold or

treasury notes, they being much easier to enclose in let-

ters and forward to the friends at home.

The erection of barracks for quartering the brigade dur-

ing the winter months, was commenced on Tuesday.—

Lieut. James M. Carver was assigned the officer of super-

intendent of their erection, having under his control

something less than half a regiment of carpenters.  He is

an excellent mechanic, and we have not doubt he put mat-

ters through on the double quick.


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