The Seventh Regiment.
The pleasing illusions which have been indulged concerning the existence of some lingering traits of gratitude and delicacy in the hearts of this regiment were all dispelled by the paragraph published yesterday.
A general feeling of satisfaction, however, is expressed that, now we know them in their true colors, they will form part of the force which is to invade
Virginia.
They will receive, beyond a doubt, such attentions as such men deserve.
Probably the Seventh Regiment is the best drilled regiment in the
Northern army; but its qualities are more adapted to show than use, and when it comes to the tug of actual battle, will prove inferior to many other regiments on its own side.
During the famous
Forrest riots in New York, this crack regiment was called upon to face the mob, and though on parade days they always turn out eight hundred strong, not more than seventy or one hundred made their appearance in the hour of trial.
An effeminate, dandy set, whom, in a rough and tumble fight, one hundred of the
Grayson Dare Devils could send in double-quick time to the New York of the lower regions.