Hillsborough (NC) Recorder

July 17, 1861

Page 3

 

                                                Chapel Hill, N. C., July 15, 1861

Messr. D.[unreadable phrase] I herewith send you an acknowledgement of thanks from our boys at Yorktown, to the ladies of this community, for their many acts of patriotic kindness since their entrance into the field.

            As they are Orange boys, please insert the accompanying article in your paper, and send bill to me.

                                                Respectfully,

 

                                    To the Ladies of Chapel Hill

            We have been appointed a committee on the part of the Orange Light Infantry, to return their grateful thanks for your many acts of kindness to them.  Your gifts are most acceptable, and we received them with additional gratification, when we recollect that they come from those so dear to us by natural ties and the kind associations of the past.  The thought that it is for you we are serving, that our efforts may, under God, keep a cruel foe from our happy homes, reconciles us to all the hardships we may be called upon to endure.  While here we will not murmur, but will strive to do our duty to the uttermost.  But our hearts ever turn with eager longings to our quiet little town, where we are blessed with your presence, and we will most gladly welcome the day when we can, with honor, go back to the arms we have left.

            Again, Ladies, we tender you, in behalf of our company, our heartfelt thanks, and are most sincerely:

                                                D. McCAULEY,          Com.

                                                R. B. SAUNDERS,      Com.

                                                J. H. McDADE,           Com.

           

[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]