Robeson-Cumberland County NcArchives News.....Sick and Wounded North Carolinians At Charleston  August 19, 1863
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Weekly Standard August 19, 1863
Sick and Wounded North Carolinians At Charleston -- A letter from a North 
Carolina medical officer at Charleston, says:

"Gen. Clingman's brigade, composed of four N.C. regiments, has been in this
place since the commencement of the bombardment of Morris Island.  They have 
undergone more hardships, and more terrific shelling for the same length of 
time than any troops in the Confederate States since the war commenced, and, 
nothwithstanding all this, our sick soldiers--made sick by exposure on the 
Island--are refused admittance in the hospitals in Charleston."

Comment on such treatment of our soldiers is unnecessary.  As a set of this we 
are glad to learn from the Wilmington Journal that-- "Mr. George Robertson, 
Chairman of the Executive Committee, Charleston, requests us to state that the 
American Hotel, corner King and George streets, has been secured as a home for 
all soldiers arriving in the city of Charleston, where they will receive every 
attention in food and shelter free of all charge. All the papers in North 
Carolina and Virginia will confer a favor on the soldiers by giving the above 
as extensive circulation as possible."

Additional Comments:
General Clingman's Brigade consisted of the 8th, 31st, 51st, and 61st North 
Carolina Troops.  The 51st was made up mostly of men from Robeson County and 
there were also many men from Robeson in the 31st. 

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