War History of the Old First Virginia Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia
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State and Confederate. Resolved, That though disaster and gloom now hovers over us, we believe all things will be so ordered in the coming campaign, that our wrongs will be avenged, our rights secured, and those who now claim us as slaves will own us as victors. Resolved, That we would hail with acclamation the enrolment into our armies of Negro troops ; we therefore recomme/id to our repre- sentatives in Congress assembled, to use their endeavors for the imme- diate accomplishment of that end.... February 24th, moved back to the right of the line near Swift Creek. About eighty recruits were added to the regiment, who, 56 WAR HISTORY OF THE OLD FIRST VIRGINIA. together with the detailed men returned to their respective com- panies by the orders of General Lee, filled some of the gaps in our ranks. The detailed men, as a general thing, did not relish this change much. J. R. Steger, a member of Company D, who met with this fate, expressed his feelings in the following lines, which he called "the bomb-proof's lament."' With all my heart, I hate to part, For I'm not happy to be free ; And it will surely break my heart To send me back to Company D.
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