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.