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The Daily Dispatch: February 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], Guard duty — camp Lee. (search)
Guard duty — camp Lee. Messrs. Editors: Is it not a little singular that the detailed men and volunteer boys, in the Local Defence, should be required to perform guard duty at Camp Lee whilst the clerks at that place are relieved of all military duty? If offices and stoves at that place need guarding, would it not be just as well to require the healthy bomb-proof officers and clerks of that camp to perform that duty? leaving the clerks in the city departments to guard their own premises, and the workmen to guard their shops. If each of the seven companies in the regiment were given a fixed place to guard, the duties might be made so light on the men that they could perform their daily labors without inconvenience, and with entire efficiency to the Government. In the present straits of the country, neither clerks in departments, nor workmen in the shops, wish to shirk duty, but they do object to being made guards for "bomb-proofs," which contain officers and men equally ab