The Rockingham Register says that desertion from the Yankee army since its attempted occupation of the Valley of Virginia have been quite numerous. Those seen by the editor concurred in stating that if others of their companions in arms knew that they would be received kindly in the Confederate lines that whole companies and regiments would desert. They represent the Federal service as too intolerable to be borne, especially as it obliges many who really love the South and have friends and kinsmen in the Southern Confederacy to lift their hands against their best friends.
– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p. 3
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