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The First Kentucky Regiment.
Camp "Masked Battery," Near Fairfax, September, 26, 1861. To the Editors of the Richmond Dispatch.
--Gentlemen:--Permit me, through your columns, to say a few words in reference to the First Regiment of Kentucky. Volunteers, of which we have the honor to be members.
Nearly six months since we left our homes in the "dark and bloody ground" to battle in defence of our mother State, and the cause of our own loved South.
Of the many hard ships we have endured since our arrival in the Old Dominion, (caused chiefly by the cupidity and incompetency of former communities,) this useless to re to here; suffice that we were the first troops to come to the aid of your State in her dark hear of perils.
And since that time we have borne our portion of the hardship incident to a life in the tented-field without murmuring; and although we did not participate in the glorious victory on the plains of Manassas, yet it was no fault of ours; for the long