The Daily Dispatch: September 15, 1863., [Electronic resource]

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A Crack New York regiment.

--There was a good deal of stir in New York among the upper ten when a regiment called the "Ironsides" was being raised. It was the subject of prayer for all the Beechers and Tyngs of Gotham, and, taken altogether, was the most genteel fanatical body of men that have gone into the war from that great city. The New Orleans correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, in an account of the capture of Brashear City, La., by the Confederates, gives the following first-rate notice of the impenetrable "Ironsides:"

‘ A New York regiment, the number of which I do not recollect, but known as the "Ironsides" regiment, is said to have behaved in the most cowardly manner, not making even the shadow of a fight. This regiment was sent out under the auspices of the Young Men's Christian Association, and was considered the very pink of perfection in morality. They prayed and sang, and held persistently aloof from association with the common soldier and his vices, among which the shedding of blood may be enumerated. The World and Herald correspondents forgot to allude to the performance of this regiment in their reports of the affair.

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