The Daily Dispatch: may 7, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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The New York Seventh Regiment.

--Much prominence has been given to the report that disaffection existed in the New York Seventh Regiment, but those who were disposed in consequence to revive an old feeling of attachment may now be undeceived. A member of the regiment publishes the following conclusive statement in a Washington paper:

It is false that they were called upon to take the oath for three months, for it was stipulated that they were to be mustered in for thirty days only — though ready to serve for a year, or more, in the event of war.

False that any disaffection exists in the regiment.

False that when they did take the oath, five hundred refused to take it. Not a man withheld his willing pledge.

False that any ten, twenty, or fifty men of the regiment, or any one man, said they or he would not bear arms against Virginia or Maryland. They all took the oath to sustain the Government against all its foes.

And of course false that the Government yielded to a request or condition that never was made or asked.