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The Daily Dispatch: September 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
ip or privation during this arduous and unfortunate campaign. Never have they failed to fill the minds even of superior officers, before prejudiced against them, with perfect reliance on their courage and fidelity. Never have they done otherwise than exhibit, even under trying circumstances, a discipline the example whereof would have benefited regiments making greater pretensions. And yet, outside of the army, they have received little credit. A short time since the bold and restless Rust, of the 12th Arkansas Regiment, undertook a daring and difficult enterprise, the nature of which, for military reasons, cannot here be explained. His force was composed wholly of volunteers--520 Arkansians and Georgians, and 250 Northwestern Virginians, under Lt. Col. Hansbrough. Let the result be what it may, it may be safely said that the latter bore themselves most gallantly, and not only overcome their leader's preconceived opinions, but caused him to declare that with an army of such m