The Daily Dispatch: May 14, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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A Crack Regiment.

--Col. Pettigrew, of Charleston, is raising a regiment of Mounted Riflemen for service in Virginia. It is composed wholly of picked men, each member being required to furnish his own horse and accoutrements. The regiment will be specially pitted, it is said, against the ‘"Seventh"’ of New York. The organization of Col. Pettigrew's command, we learn from a private source, was expected to have been completed on Saturday last, when it would immediately start for Richmond.--Baltimore American.

The above is partly true, and Adjutant Barker is now in Montgomery making the final arrangements for the organization. Instead, however, of being a Regiment of Mounted Riflemen, it is to be a Rifle Regiment, in which the men are to combine the accuracy of American sharp-shooters with the gymnastic vigor and skill of the Zouaves. A portion have already been drilled as artillerists, so that they may make use of the rifled field pieces of which our enemies are laying in such a stock.--Charleston Courier.