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Terms of Subscription:
For 1 Year 5,00
For 6 Months 2,50
No subsciptious received for less than six.
months, and paymeut always required iu ad
vance.
SCALE OF PRICES
To be Charged by tlie “Early County hews,”
1 Square, (occupying the space of ten bour
geois lines, or less.) one-insertion,2,oo
Forevery subsequent insertion, 1,00
Obituary notices charged as adverti-wvuits.
lic-organization of the Militia.
The fallowing act to ro-organize the Mili
tia of the State of Georgia, and for other
purposes, was passed; Lv the late Legisla
ture of Georgia, aud has been assented to by
the Governor:
Section 1. lie it enacted, Ac., That each
Senatorial District in this State shall consti
tute a separate Military District, aud it shall
lie the duty of the Governor, as soon as prac
ticable after the passage of this act, to ap
point an Aid-de-Camp, with the rank of Qol
onel, in each district, who shall be charged
with the dirties hereinafter set forth.
Sec. 11. He it further enacted, That with
in four days after being notified of his ap
pointment, it shall be the duty of each Aid
de-Camp to commence the enrollment of all
free white males resident in his District, who
are or shall be of the age of sixteen years,
aud not over sixty years, and also those who
shall from time to time arrive at the ago of
sixteen years, or who may come to reside
within the District, except those who shall
ai-tually be in the Army or Navy of the Con
federate Stales, or in the State service. The
enrollment shall be by Company Districts,
and shall show the age. occupation and na
tivity of each person enrolled, the number
of the Company District in which he may re
side, and if auy exemption is claimed, the
ground of it.
For the purpose of facilitating the enroll
ment, the Aid-de-Camp shall he authorized
to employ, with the approvalpf the Governor,
three or more assistants for each county,
wise shall .receive tier their services compen
sation at the rate of fifty cents ft r each per
son enrolled by them ; but they shall not be
exempt from service under fills act. in cori
sequenee of their being such assistants. For
a failure faithfully to discharge their duty
(he Assistant Unrolling officers shall be lia
ble to removal by the Governor, and if with
out sufficient excuse to be judged of by the
Governor, shall be liable further to forfeit
ure of all compensation.
Sec. HI. And be it further enacted, That
it shall be the duty oftfie Aid-de-Camp, with
in ten days after she-enrollment has been com
pleted iii* his district, to forward complete
lists, iu duplicate, of the. enrollment in each
. county of his district to the Adjutant and In
spector General, and to file with the Clerk
of the Superior Court, in each county, a co
py of the enrollment in his county; and the
Aid shall be empowered and required when
there are but few persons enrolled in a par
ticular eompauy district, to incorporate and
consolidate., subject to the approval of the
iiovernor, two or more adjoining company
districts into one, reporting the consolidation
made aud the numbers of the company dis
tricts so combined, aud in cities to divide dis
tricts.
Sec. IV. Beit further enacted, Thai the
Governor be authorized, on receiving the re
ports of the new company districts provided
lor in section third, to arrrange said compa
nies into Keghneuts or Battalions, defining
their limits without regard to county lines,
aud if need be, for the purpose of effective
organization without regard to Senatorial
Districts ; Provided that no Regimental dis
trict shall contain more than one thousand,
. or less than five hundred, men, arranged
iu ten companies; that no Battalion district
of the first class shall contain more than six
hundred, or less than four hundred, men. ar
ranged in not more than nine, nor less than
six. companies; that no Battalion district of
the second class shall contain more than
four hundred, nor less than two hundred,
men. arranged in not more than five, nor less
than two, companies ; and that no company
district shall contain more than one hundred,
nor less than sixty-four, men.
Sec. V. Be if further enacted, That to
each Regiment' there shall be allowed one
Colonel, one Lieutenant-Colonel, and ouo
Major; to each Battalion of the first class,
one Lieutenant-Colonel and one Major ; to
each Battalion of the second class, one Ma
jor; and to each Company one Captain, four
Lieuts., five Sergeants, foifr Corporals; and
that each Company shall be divided into two
platoons, each platoon into two squads, and
that there shall bo,-for the purpose of drill
and discipline, one Lieutenant, one Sergeant,
aud one Corporal to each squad.
S**c. VT. Be it further enacted, That so
soon as the arrangement of Regiments and
Battalions and Companies shall he comple
ted in each or any of the Senatorial Districts
the Governor shall be required within ten
davs thereafter to order elections for officers
to command said Regiments, Battalions aud
Companies in the same manner now; prescrib
ed in the Military Code of Georgia, and shall
issue commissions on the election returns as
♦herein also directed uuder the Seal of the
BLAKELY, GEO., JANUARY G, 1864.
Executive Department, aud in the event of
a failure or neglect on the part of the peo
ple to elect, the Governor shall commission
to the vacancy u fit and proper person on
the recommendation of a majority of the Com
pany officers concerned. The officers thus
elected, or appointed and commissioned, to be
vested with all the authority usually apper
taining to such grades. And all members of
the State Guard, who are absent- iu the ser
vice of this State or the Confederate States,
shall be permitted to vote at said election for
officers at the places where they are station
ed, and two commissioned officers shall pre
side at said elections, and transmit returns
thereof, within fifteen days after said election,
to the Governor of this State, whose duty it
shall be to consolidate said votes as iu other
cases.
Sec. VII. Re it further enacted, That
whenever the Governor shall have been ad
vised by the Aid-de-Camp iu any Senatorial
District that the organizations hereinbefore
provided for, have been completed in the
District, and the officers therein elected, or
appointed and commissioned, it shall he his
duty, within teu davs thereafter, to declare
the militia organization heretofore existing in
said District, under the Military Code of
Georgia, suspended, and the officers under
said previous organization relieved from their
command, and said officers shsll be subject
to all the Military duties imposed by this act
upon persons of the same age with themselves,
Sec. VIII. Beit further enacted, That it
' shall be the duty of the Aid-de-Camp in each
Senatorial District to supervise aud direct,
under the orders of the Governor, all military
matters within his District. He shall be the
channel of communication between the Ad
jutant & Inspector General and the troops in
his Dist rict, for the transmission of all orders,
instructions, reports and military communi
cations generally, and he shall be entitled to
compensation at the rate of seven dollars per
day for the time lie may be employed in per
fecting the organization herein provided for,
and for such time iu each quarter, not to ex
ceed teu days, as he may be required to de
vote to military matters in Ids District. Ho
shall be removable at the pleasure of the
Governor.
3ec. IX. Ill' it further enacted, That it
shall be the duty of each Lieutenant. of a
squad to keep a list of all persons enrolled
within the limits of hiasquad beat, and shall
notify the Aid-de-Camp of his District, thro’gh
his Captain.-quarterly, of all persons arriving
at the age of sixteen, or who shall move into
or out of his heat; which notifications shall
be consolidated by the Aid-de-Camp, and for
warded within ten days after the end of each
quarter of the year, to the Adjutant A In
spector General, noting also such other chan
ges in rank, command, Ac., that may have
occurred during the quarter. The object be
ing to continue a complete enrollment of tho
District, and to preserve its military organi
zation.
Sec. X. And be it further enacted. That
the persons enrolled under the second sec
tion of this Act shall be divided into two
classes. The first shall be composed of thoso
between seventeen and fifty years of age, to
he styled the Militia proper, who shall bo
first liable and subject to perform all the
military duties contemplated by this Act.
The second class shall be composed of those
between sixteen and seventeen years of age,
and between fifty aud sixty years of age,
aud be styled the Militia reserve; who shall
organize with the Militia proper, but shall
not l>e required to drill or perform any of
the military duties contemplated by this Act,
until the Militia proper shall have been call
ed into active service, nor be subject or liable
to any draft or other compulsory process to
fill any requisition for troops, uoon the Gov
ernor of this State, bv the President of the
Confederate States. U’hen the Militia prop
er shall be called into active service, *he Lieu
tenant of each Company most advanced in
age shall he left with and in comtnaad of
the Militia reserve ot their respective Com
panies. Ami if any person belonging to the
Militia reserve shall at any time he elected
to, and shall accept any office under this
Act, he shall be required to perform all the
duties of the office without reference to the
class which he may have belonged.
Sec, XL And he it further enacted, That
whenever, in tin* opinion-of the Governor, it
shall he necessary either to repel invasion,
suppress insurrection, or to execute the laws,
to call the State Militia, or any par' theroot,
into aotiv** military service, he ih hereby au
thorized and empowered to da so; hut the
Militia reserve created by this Act shall be
called into active military service only after
the Militia proper has been called out in
great emergencies, to meet which the Militia
proper are deemed insufficient, and shall be
discharged from such active service as soon
as the emergency to meet which they aro
called out shall have passed; and whenev
er the Militia, or any part thereof, shall be
called into active military service, they shall
receive the same pay and allowances as if
they were in the service of the Confederate
States, aud shall be Subject to tho rules and
articles of war and the regulations for tho
government of tho armies of the Confederate
States.
Sec. XII. Be it further enacted, That
whenever the militia shall be called into ac
tive service by the Governor, Brigades and
Divisions may be organized for the period
of active service, in such manner as the Gov
ernor may direct; the officers and tarn com
posing the Brigades and Divisions inali cases
electing their Brigade and Division comman
ders ; provided that tlm officer of Brigadier
j and Division General shall expire when dis
banded, and the individuals holding them
shall return to service according to their ages,
as provided for in this act.
Sec. XIII. And he it further enacted,
That whenever a requisitition lor troops for
local defence in this .State shall be mndo by
the President of the Confederate States upon
the Governor of this State, the Governor snail
bo etnpowered aud authorized to fill the re
quisition by apportioning the number requir
ed among the different regiments, battalions
or companies of the militia proper, provid
ed for by this act; and when the apportion
ment is made, the Governor may order the
number apportioned detached, drafted or se
> '.jjCted in suchother manner as h* may eh-om
advisable, aud may squire the Aide-de-Oamp
for tha Senatorial Districts to superintend
the draft, or to to execute such orders as may
be necessary to accomplish the object; pro
vided, that unmarried men, bachelors, or
widowers without children shall be subject
to draft before married men or widowers who
have children, and provided further, that tho
men drafted or selected shall be formed into
companies, battalions or regiments, as the
Governor may direct, and shall be permitted
to elect the officers to command them while
iu service ; and in case of neglect or refusal
to elect when ordered, that tho Governor may
appoint the officers and compel them to or
ganize, or he may appoint officers to fill va
cancies, if the men to be commanded fail or
refuse to elect: and provided further that
in case of requisition for troops for local ser
vice in a particular part of tho State, tho
'Governor may fill it by ordering the number
of troops called for to be made up from such
regiments, battalions or companies as he may
select, iu the section of the State where the
service is required.
Sec. XIV. Aud be it further enacted, That
auy militia ordered into active service, wheth
er by order of the Governor or on a requisi
tion from the President of the Confederate
States, who shall fail or refuse after due no
tice to cuter said service, or being therein,
shall leave the service without permission,
shall be liable to be tried and punished as a
deserter, aud subject to all the pains ami
ficnalties imposed upon deserters iu the
vules and Articles of War for the govern
ment of the army of the Confederkte States.
Sec. X V. Be it further enacted, That there
shall be appointed by the Governor one Sur
geon for each Senatorial District, whose duty
it skull be to examine, all persons who claim
to be unable to bear arms, and shall give cer- •
tificates to such as, iu his judgment, are un
able to bear arms, clearly slating therein the
cause of such disablity. Said surgeon shall
be sworn to discharge his duty faithfully and
impartially, aud shall receive compensation
at tho rate of $5 per day for every day he
shall be employed under the orders of the
Governor, and who shall be removable by
theGovr-ruor for neglect or failure iu the dis
charge of his duties.
Sec, XVI. And be it further enacted, That
exemptions from, and discharges after en
rollment before organization under this act
may bo granted by the Aids-de-Oanip ot the
Senatorial Districts, on the certificates of the
District Surgeon; and discharges from ore
fanization under this act, may be granted
v said Aids-dc-Camp on the certificate of
the battalion or regimental surgeons, ap
proved by the company and buttalion or reg
imontal commanders.
Sec. XVII. And be it fqrther enacted,
That any person made subject to service
under this act may volunteer in the military
or naval service.of the Confederate States,
or in any company authorized by the Con
gress of the Confederate States, providing
for local defence and special service, butshall
again he subject to State service when his
term of service as a volunteer shall have
expired.
Sec. XVIII- And be it further enacted,
That any person subject to service under this
act, who is in the employ of the government,
of the Confederate States, or has a contract
with said government or is employed on any
railroad, may be detailed for special duty
upon the request of the Secretary of War,
addressed to the Governor, naming the emt
plovee or contractor, and the length of time
tor which such detail is requested ; provided,
that nothing herein contained shall be so
construed as authorizing the detail for spe
cial duty of any common laborer or other
person in tho employment of railroads,
manufactories, Ac., unless the President or
Superintendant of the road, manufactory or
other labor, shall make application to the
Governor, through the Aid-de-Camp of his
Senatorial District, on affidavit, that such
persons are indisponsiblo to suid road or
work, and their places cannot be filled by
other persons not liable to military duty.
Sec. XIX. Be it further enacted, That in
making tho enrollment provided for by this
act, the enrolling officer shall report by name
all persons having efficient guns, describing
the gun, whether rifle, musket or shot-gun,
and those who have not; also such persons
who can furnish their own horses, baddies
and bridles, acd serve as mounted men, and
that the Governor be authorized, whenever
in his power to do so, to furnish arms and
ammunition to the forco herein created, an
in his judgment lie may deem advisable*,
upon the requisition and receipt in duplicate
of the commanders of regiments, battalions
or companies, who shall beheld accountable
for the same, and vdio shall make returns of
the same quarterly to the Adjutant aud In
epnetor General, through the Aid-de-Camp
of their Senatorial diat.ricL and who shall,
• for hit own security, be entitled to make do-
maud tor auy guu fufui.shed by him to uny
person; and auy persou failing to roturu
naid guu to the officer accountable tor it, on
his demand, or who shall injure or damage
any guu or ammunition entrusted to ins
care, shall be guilty of a misdemeanoP, and
on conviction thereof iu any county in this
State shall be lined or imprisoned at the
discretion of the Court trying the case.
Soe. XX. lie it further enacted, That the
Commanders of regiments, battalions, brig
ades and divisions shall be entitled to ap
point such staff officers as are allowed to
Bimilar grades in the Confederate service,
and to secure the efficient operation of this
Act, that the Governor be .entitled to ap
point. from time fb time ttadfs trtkff officers
and additional Aids-de-Camp as lie may
think necessary. **
Sec. XXI. And be it further enacted,
1 hat the officers of the Executive Department,
members of the General Assembly, Secretary
ot the Senate, and four principal assistants.
Clerk of the House ot Representatives, and
six principal Clerks, and the Clerk of the
joint Committee ol both houses on Finance,
and the Clerk of Military Committee of tha
senate, Judges of the Supreme and Superior
Courts, and Justices of the Inferior Courts,
Attorney and Solicitors General, Reporter
and the Supremo Court, Clerks of
. the Superior and Inferior Courts. Tax Col
lectors, Shot ids, Ordinarios, Ministers of
Religion in the actual care and charge of any
organized Church or Synagogue, aud such
other persons' as the Governor iu his diners-*
tion nj'ay deem it absolutely necessary for
the public interest to exempt, shall be exempt
from the provisions of this Act.
Sec. XXII. And be it further enacted,
That, the Governor be authorized to prescribe
the number and kind of drills and military
exercises to be performed by the militia
proper, created by this Act, when not ac
tively engaged iu the field, and that for a
failure to attend as required on the part of
either officers or men, it shall be the duty of
the Aid'de-Camp of each district to whom
reports ol‘delinquencies shall be made, with
in three days alter any called drill or exer
cise by the senior officer or non-commission
ed officer present at the drill or exercise, to
issue a writ of ficri facias directed to any
Sheriff or Constable within his district to
collect out of the property of auy delinquent
who shall not furnish a satisfactory excuse,
wit Urn ope after being reported, a sun
net less thay three dollars nor more than
fifty dollars, at the discretion of said Aid
de-Camp, which sum shall be turned over
by said Aid-de-Camp on receipt therefor
to the Justices of the Inferior Court of the
county in which the delinquent may reside,
to bq applied to the benefit of soldiers’ fam
ilies within said county.
Sec. XXIII. And be it further enacted,
That so much of Hie military code of the
Shite of Georgia as is inconsistent with tho
provisions of this Act, shall be, aud the same
is hereby suspended so long as this Act
shall be in force, and this Act shsli beofeme
inoperative and void upon the ratification of
a treaty of peace between the United States
and Confederate States,
Sec. XXIV, And be it further enacted.
That no person shall be enrolled under this
Act who is subject to conscription under the
Conscript Act or Acts of the Confederate
Congress ; if the State Enrolling officer has
doubt whether any person within his limits
is subject to enrollment as a conscript he
shall report the fact to the Confederate enroll
ing officer of the Congressional district, and
if such Confederate officer does not cause
such person to be enrolled within twenty
days after such notice is given, the State En
rolling officer shall enrol him under’ this
Act, or if he is found to be exempt after he
is enrolled by the Confederate officer, ho shall
then be subject to enrollment by the State
officer under this Act.
Sec. XXV. And be it further enacted.
That this act shall take effect and be oper
ative and in force from and immediately af
ter its passage.
Sec. XXVI. That, all laws and parts of
Jaws militating against this Act, be and the
same are hereby repealed.
Feeling on the Battle Field.
Before tho battle begins it is usual to feel
no little tremor, aud many cheeks, which
known to bo in communication with stout
hearts, blanch visibly. As the conflict be
comes imminent, courage returns, aud with
the first flow of blood an enthusiasm is ram
ed which constantly increases until the last
shot is fired. The effect of seoing a comrade
shot down is generally to excite an unapp* as
able thirst for vengenco against the sos,
though one in the end “gets used to it."
When wounded legs than mortally, it is
not usual for the soldier to be immediate
ly aware of the fact unless some bonea are
broken. A sabre may be run through any
fleshy part of the body, and even a bullet
lodge iu dangerous proximity to the vitals,
ana he for some time be totally unconscious
of even a scratch. When life is taken by a
singlo blow, tho effect is varied with the na
ture of the wound, as well as with the tr-m
--fverament of the man. Sometimes the poor
allow will lean high into the air, give a
piercing scream, and again he will lie down
quietly. Oftener, however, he simply falls
dead without a stuggle. In most cases the
features of the killed remain unchanged for
a long time after death—eyes open and bril
liant, and, perchance,, a smile illuminating
the lac* To see such a one, it is difficult iu
deed to real're the presence of the grim mon
ster -Death.
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