The Confederate union. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1862-1865, November 25, 1862, Image 1

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    BOIGHTON, MSCET & BARKER
Publishers and Proprieio.??.
H. It. BOI’CIITOS, )
JOS. H. NISBKT. f
elje CanfeberiUe Biiiou
o
Is published Weekly, in JHil/edgcrille, CJa.,
Corner of Hancock and Wilkinson Sts.,
(opposite Court IIousc.J
At $3 a year in Advance.
KITES of A»VIKTISI.\«.
Per square of tirctre tines.
One insertion.*! 00, and fifty cents for each subsequent
continuance.
7’hoseseut without thespecification of the numberol
insertions will be published till forbid and charged
accordingly.
Busineasor Professional Cards, per year, where they
do not exceed Six Links - - - $!0 Of
A /i/era/ contract trill be made icith /hose tcho wish to
Advert ice by /lie year, occupying a specified space
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
Sales of Land and Negroes, by Administrators. Ex
ecutor; or Guardians, are required by law 1.. be held
on the first Tuesday in the mouth; between the hours oi
It) in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at tin
Courthouse in thecountyiu which the property is sit
uated.
Notice of those*ales must be given in a public ga
JC :t? 40 days previous to the day ofsale.
Notices for the sale of personal property must be giv
en in like manner 10 days previous to sale day.
Notices to tlie debtors and creditors of uti estate. IU. :
a!-n be published 40 days.
Notice that application will be made to the Court of
>r linary for leave to sell Land or Negroes, inttm be
• ublislied for two mouths.
Citation* forietters of Administration Guardianship,
A must be published 30 days—for dismission from
Ad ninistration, monthly r-i.c months—lav dismission
troin Guardianship, 40 days.
Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must be pub:: bed
monthly for four month.s—for establishing lost papers.
for the full space of three months—for compelling titles
from Executors or administrators, where b< ndho: i :ei:
given by the deceased, the full space of three
mouths.
Publications will always be continued according
these, thclegnlrequireincnte, unless otherwise ordered
r.ttbc following
RATES:
Citations, on letters of administration, See. $‘2 75
“ “ dismissory from Admr’n. 4 50
“ “ “ Guardianship. 3 00
Leave to sel! Land or Negroes ! 00
Notice to debtors and creditors. 5 0o
Sales of personal property, ten days, 1 jqr. 1 50
Sale of land or negroes by Executors, Ac pr sqr. 5 00
Estrays, two weeks
For a nan advertising his wife (in advance,) 5 00
uuMffifflG
Tilt: Subscriber is now pre
pared to do SooL'Eitid-
ing', in all its brandies
Old Rooks rebel.nil, &c.
>est style. Blank Books t
Prompt attention will tie
VOLUME XXXIII,]
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, N0YEMBER 25, 1862.
[NUMBER 27.
COUNTING HOUSE CALENDAH, 1862.1 Mst of Regiments, Battalions, &c.,
from Georgia in the Confederate scrricc, Com-
©AYS
w • if
c : >|
* JnJTifJ
S' V, j ; y s r -
piled from the records of the Adjutant and In-
Inspector General's Office, and other sources.
COMMANDERS. REMARKS.
I Col. W. J. Magiil, Regulars.
1 Col. Chat. II. O'mstead, 1st Volunteer Regi
men t.
1 2 3 4 July
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 If. !7 18
.'.‘.20 21 22 2321 25
26 24 2824) 30 31
1 A
] 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 » It* 11.12
13 14,15 16 !7 18 19
20 21 22 ^-3 24 2:i 26
27 28 29 30 31
Cl ST
I J. B. Vjllepigue,
I C<
Mar.
Apr h
May
June
9 )(. 1! 12 13 14 15
1C 17 18 19 20 2! 22
23 2425 26 27 28
1 Sept’k
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 I! 15
16 17 i S 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 2G 27 28 2J
30 31
1.2345 Octob'r
6 1 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 2223 212526
27 29 23 30 , . .
1 2 3 Nov El!
4 5 6 7 8 9 io
li 12 13 14 15 16 17
18.192021 222324
25 26>27 28 29 30 31
Decem.
12 3 4 5 6 7
6 9 10 11 12 13 14
15.16 17 18 19 2021
22 23 21 25 26 27 28
29 30,
3
1 2
> 7 8 a
10 11 12 13. 14 15 16
17 18 ]9«20 21 22-23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31 1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 jo
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 21 25 26 27
28 2:1 30
y 2 3 4
5 6 7 89 9 j]
12 13 14 15 16 17 !8
19 20 21 $2 23 24.05
26 27 28.29 30 3! ”
2 3 4 5 6 7 l
9 10 11 12 13 14 I5
16 17 18 19 2021 .,2
23 24 25 26 27 2? .'3
30 1 2 3 4 5 *6
7 8 9 10 1! 12 ,3
14 15 16 17 18 19 oi,
21 2223 24 25 2? * 7
28 23 30 31
J. N. Ramsay,
E. M. Butt
3 Col. E. Walker,
2 Ci
4 Cob Geo. P. Doles,
ft Col. W. T. Black,
G
COURT CALLENDER FOR 1862.
SUPERIOR COUikSS.
MUSIC bound in th
manuiacturcd to order
given to all work eutmsted to me.
S. J
Kinder,' in Monthern Federal t iii
Miiledgevillfc, March 19th, 1861.
KIDD.
>n Ottiee.
43
SPECIAL NOTICE.
f J^HE undersigned havit
m x>. i
e rp his
tin
■ remove
ledgeville desires and intends t
business matters of that place spec- i y as j
b!e. All persons indebted are not,tied that
no esand accounts are in the hands of .J. A.
Breedlove. andP. II Lawler,who me authori
zed to collect aud make settlements It not ar
ranged at an early day, settlements will be enforced
by law.
13 tf. A. C. TAIL, Agent.
Western & Atlantic (Stale Kailroat
Atlanta to Chattanooga, 138 Miles, Fare H
JOHN S. ROWLAND, Su
7 30 r. M.
4 57 A. M
4 oo A. M.
5 ir> P. M.
Xrxiin.
. 2 to P. M.
. G 57 P.M.
. 4 30 A. M
New
Passenger Train
Leave Atlanta at
Arrive at Chattanooga at
Leave Atlanta at
Arrive at Chattanooga at
Accommodation Pasmrugc:
Leave Atlanta
Arrive at Kingston
Leave Kingston ......
Arrive at Atlanta 8 45 A M.
Tins Rond connects each way with the Rome
Branch Railroad at Kingston, the East Tennessee
A Georgia Railroad at Dalton, and the Nashville
A Chattanooga Railroad at Chattanooga.
July 29, 1862. * 10 tf.
Arrangement. -
Change of Schedule, on and after Monday l\lh inst
THE .Subsertbcrsare convey- **;»■.> /—V3_
ing the U. S. Mail from .'III- ^
ledgeville via Sparta, Culver--
ton and Powelton to Donbh
Wells,and would respectfully invito the at
their friends and the travelling public, to tlieir new
and complete arrangement for travelling facilities
over this line.
SCHEDULE—Leave MillOdgeville after the arriva
of trains from Columbus. Macon and Savannah: Ar
rive in Sparta at 6 o’clock P. 31. and at Double Well
-nine evening.
Leave Double Wells alter the arriva] of morning
trains from Augusta. Atlanta and Athens; Arrive at
Sparta 11 o’clock, A. 31.; Arrive at MilledgeviUesame
evening.
With good TIacks, fine Stock and careful drivers
we solicit alibcral patronage.
MOORE & FORBS.
Hinge OfBcem—Milled grriiir IfnfrIMiiicdtri cillt;G<
Edwards' House. Sparta.
Moore's Hotel, llonutc II ells.
July 11,1859. 8tf-
JOJAbcJ a*. BOW2JOIK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Y.1TOSTOS, Si A..
Eatonton, Ga., Feb. 14, J - ■ 38 tf.
50 Saw Cotton Gin lor So le.
ONE of WATSON’S best 51) Saw Cotton Gins
is offered for sale. This Gin is new, and is equal
•o any in use. Sold for no fault, tho present ow
ners having no use for it- Any planter wanting;:
good Gin,can have a chance to get one at are-
ductiou on the regular price. Apply at this office,
' < t X. Tift, or J. H. Watson, at Albany
GEORGIA
BLACK, ItUSSETTS,
All MY BROGANS,
WOMAN SHOES,
SPUN YARNS,
SHIR TINGS OSNABURGS,
S TR WED lit IMESP I NS,
By the large or small quantities.
Jacob Cans & Co.
January 28, le62 36 tf
9AM L D. IRV1S
IHEEM.EK BUTLER
IRVIN & -BUTLER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
ALBANY, Georgia.
IPRACTICE iti the Superior Courts of the Si.uti
} Western Circuit,—in Terrell, Randolph, and Ear-
- counties, in the P.ituula Circuit,—in Worth and Ma
(,, ii Comities, in the Macon Circuit, in the Unitec
Vales Circuit Court at Savannah.—«nd by speeia
contract,in auv County in Southern Georgia.
January 1st’1860. 34 tf.
£TH E RI DG £ &» SON,
Factors, Commission and I’orwarding
NAVAMAB, «A.
w D. ETHERIDGE. W. D. ETHF.RlDGE, Jr
July I5tb, 1856. 8 tf
SssrsTX II. "& L. H. KEKAB)
Ake Associated in the Practice ok Law
Office 1 si Door upon 2d f.oor of
MASONIC HALL.
Jan 23d.1857. 35 tf
J.IT& W. W. TURNER,
attorneys at law,
Eatonton,.Ga.
L8, 184«. Slly.
JANUARY.
2d Monday, Chatham.
' 'Floyd
FEBRUARY.
1st Monday, Clark
t Lumpkin
5d Monday, Campbell
Daw»on
3d Monday, Forsyth
Polk
Glascock
Merriwethe
Walton
4th Monday, Baldwin
Jackson
Monroe
' Paulding
Taliaferro
Walker
MARCH.
1st Thursday. Pierce
1st Monday, Appling
Chattooga
Cherokee
Coweta
Columbia
Ci av,ford
Gwinnet t
Madison
Marion
Morgan
2d Monday, Butts
Bat tow
Coffee
Elbert
Fayett
Greene
Pickens
Washington
Webster
3d Monday, Cobbt
Calhoun
Hall
Hart
Heard
.Macon
N e wton
Talbot
Tattnal
\Va‘ c
Thursday after While
Friday alter,Bulloch
ith Monday, (’linch
Putnam |
Rabun
Chuttahoochee
fegs
1\ ilkes
Johnson
Milton
Thursday after Habersham!
4t hTharsday, Montgomery
Monday af-i E| . holB 'j
tcr4thMou-I Effi -am
day. )
APRIL.
1st A 2d Moil. Carroll
1st Monday, Dooly
Franklin
Eumnuel
Early
Fulton
Gordon
Pike
Taylor
Warren
• JULY.
[l«t Monday, Floyd'
AUGUST.
jst Monday Lumpkint
2d M tnday, Campbell
Clark
Dawson
]3d Monday, Forsyth
Pol a
Glascock
Murriwether
r Walton
j4th Monday, Baldwin
Jackson
Monroe
Paulding
'Talial'erro*
Walker
Tlmsday after, Pierce
SEPTEMBER.
list Monduy, Appl
8 Col. L. M. Lamar,
3 Gob Benj. Beck,
10 Col. Allred Gumming.
11 Col. Geo. T. Anderson
12 Col, Z. T. Conner,
13
14 Cob Felts Price,
■ 16 Cob Goode Bryan,
| !7 Cob H. L. Ii< lining,
; 18 Col. W. T-. Wofford',
I ill Col. W. W. Boyd,
' 20 Col. J. B. Cnmming,
j 21 Col. JohnT. Mercer,
i 22 Cob Robt. H. Jones,
! 23 Col. Tims Hutchison,
| 24 Col. Robt. McMillian,
j 25 Col C. C Wilson,
26 Col. W II Atkinson,
28 Col. J G Cain.
29 Col. W J Voting,
30 Cob I> J Baily,
31 Col. C A Evans,
32 Cob C A L Lamar,
Coni'tderate Regi
ment. The composi
tion of this Reg. not
understood, it being
mixed command of
Georgia and Missis
sippi companies.
Volunteers. Disband
ed.
Volunteers. Former
ly Sremes’ Reg.
Volunteers command
ed at Sharpsburg bv
Capt. R B. Xisbet
Volunteers re-organ-
ized.
Volunteers formerly
John K. Jackson’s.
Volunteers formerly
A. 11. Colquitt’s late
ly Col. Newton's.
Volunteers lately
Cob W. T. Wilson’s.
Piovisiona! Army.
Volunteeis.
Provisional Army.
Volunteers.
Provisional Army.
Provisional Arm y ,
Volunteers, formerly
A. V. Brumby's.
Volunteers, formerly
Col Miliican's.
Provisional Army.
Volunteers.
Volunteers.
Volunteers.
Provisional
Provisional
Volunteers.
Volunteeis.
Volunteers.
Volunteers.
Volnnteers
ized formerly
Styles’
Volunteers, laiei
Levi B Smith’s.
Volunteers, former
T .1 Warthen’s.
tiie mule presents almost a broadside
view. ’ „
At tlie upper right corner of the
genuine notes, the white ground ap
pears through the shading of the me
dallion work; in the counterfeit the
entire work is dark.
FIFTIES.
To levy and collect taxes to pay the
debts and provide for the common defence
and general welfare.
To provide and maintain a navy.
To mtike rules for the government and
regulation of the land and naval forces.
To provide for calling forth the militia
to execute the laws of the Confederate
Government, suppress insurrections and
repel invasions.
Several white spots appear just over ! To provide for organizing, arming and
tlie figures fifty, in the medallion work ! disciplining the militia and for governing
at the upper right corner of the gen- \ Ruch P att of ' tlieni as llia Y be employed in
nine notes; there are none in the conn- 1 ,,!e “ rv,ce of tlie , Confederate goyern-
' to t lie 7 tates respectively
terfeit. The outside of this medallion
ork ill tlie connteifeit is CO\ eied by ; authority of training tlie militia accordin e
a running net work; in the genuine | to the discipline prescribed by Congress,
there is none. In front of, and at- i 'To make et/l laics which shall be ueces-
tached to the chest, in the centre pie- sary and proper for carrying intoexecu-
ture of the genuine note, there is a j tion the foregoing powers,
padlock; there is none in the counter- I „ T , L(i prohibitions upon the States—still
feit. In the genuine note tlie head of j further illustrates the question discussed.
, . c ., , , ... i .No fttate shall enter into any treaty or
the man m the lower lelt corner , alliance or COIlfederation _ nor / rant l/ tter
is neaily bald, *t little nan of marque or reprisal.
combed down on the right temple; in > Nor keep troops or ships of war in times
the counterfeit a lull head of hair is ! 0 f peace.
represented, tlie hair on the right j Or engage in war, unless actually inva-
temple being slightly dishevelled, as if! ded or in such imminent danger as will
blown by a puff of wind.
In tlie genuine the bead of tlu . . , . . - ,
. i , i, i /> .• < , ' hibitious that the biates in the creation ot
mao between the words Lon federate . ... ,. . , . , , . .
j , • i the Confederate government, delegated all
In tlie eoun- j t j 1{5 p 0wers they severally jiossessed over
! not admit of delay?
fh_ f Now is it not apparent from these pro-
Statcs, is near the centre.
Aimy.
Ai my.
reorgan
c w
j erfeit the head is placed so as to
j touch the letter E in Confederate.
TWENTIES.
j* In the counterfeit bills the figure 2,
! on the right side, in cut bv r a line line,
these subjects to be exclusively exeicised
by Congress, leaving only a naked power
in themselves to engage in war when in
vaded or in imminent danger admitting of
no delay.
. , - . The defence then of each State and the
entirely separating tlie tail of the fig- common defence of all the States was
ure from the mam body lit it; m tlie therefore necessarily devolved on the
genuine the figure 2 is perfect. In j fVmfpderate e-uvernmei--* anti not on the
the genuine bills the hat oil the head
ol‘ tlie man in tlie low ci left corner ol
the note, sits more upon the top of
the head than in the counterfeit; in
CfllltbHip
Cherokei
Culuuibii
Coweta
Claw iur<
Madisou
Marion
,M organ
2d Monday, Bulls
Bartow
Coffee
Elbert
Fayette
Greene
Gwinnett
Pickens
Washington
Webster
3d Monday, Cobbt.
Calhoun
Hall
Hart
Heard
Macon
Newton
Talbot
Ware
Bulloch
Thursday after White
‘‘h .Monday, Clinch
Putnam
Chattahoochee
Lee
Twiggs
Wilkes
Johnson
Milton
Rabun
Thursday after Habersham
I Monday afO
ter the Itli > Echols
Monday j •
OCTOBER.
1st & 2d Mou. Cairoll
1st Monday, Dooly
Emanuel
Franklin
Early
Fulton
. Gilmer
Gordon
Taylor
Warren
Wilkinson
Pike
Thursday after Banks
j 83 Col. A Littlefield,
I 34 Col. J A W Johnson,
j 35 Col. E L Thomas,
*;6 Col. .1 A Glenn.
j-37 Col. not know n,
38 Col. Geo W. Lee,
89 Col. J J McConnell,
40 Col. Ahda Johnson,
41 Col. C A McDaniel,
42 Col. R Ilendirson,
43 Col. Skidemore Harris,
44 Not known,
formerly
45 Col. Thos. Hardeman,
46 Col. PH Colquitt,
47 Col. G W M Williams,
48 Coi. Wm Gibson,
39 Col. A I Lane,
50 Col. W R Manning.
51 Col. W M Slaughter,
52 Col. Wier Boyd,
53 Col. L T Duval.
54 Col. C H Way,
55 Col. C B Ilarkie,
56 Col. G P Harrison, Jr.
Volunteers reduced
to a Battalion.
Volunteers.
Provisional Army.
Pi ( visional Army.
Provisional At my.
•Prov isional Army.
Volunteers.
Volunteers.
Volunteers.
Volunteers.
Volunteers.
Volunteers,
R A Smith’:
Volunteers.
Volunteers.
Volunteers.
Volunteers.
Volunteers.
Volunteers.
Volunteers.
Volunteers.
Volunteers.
Army Voids, and Con
scripts.
Army Voids, and Con-
scripts.
Army Vol’s. andCon-
Confederate guvernmo 1 --* <md not on
PHoto & „»oinment. The people of Geor
gia through their convention conferred the
great duty of her defence on the Confed
erate government, confiding wisely in the
readiness and efficiency of that govern
ment to perform to the best of its ability
this high trust.
That that 'government can more effi-
i eicn'ly do it than the State government
would seem to he a necessary consequence
from the power ‘to raise and support ar-
Voluntecrs, formerly
Randolph Spalding’s. I the counterfeit the hat seems to be
Volunteers. j thrown more towards the back of the
Volunteers reduecJ j neck.
to a batia’ion. In the genuine the crown of the sailor’s j
hat is broader than in counterfeit—the slia-
! ding line on his jacket in the genuine, run
j square across tlie body—in the counter- j m ; es
! Lit they run diagonally across the body. J t ] 1( , fj rs t blush and to one who does
i Also, between tlie NX on the right \ no t ftriiy comprehend our system of gov-
lowcr corner tire two hearts separated I eminent, this power to raise armies would
and pointing towards each other in the I seem to be unlimited—and that it might be
genuine, but in the spurious only one, j used to force every citizen with theexcep-
or if two run together. " i tion of the President of the Confederacy
* *’ ‘ ilitary service. In my judg-
Col. VS Bark aloe,
Col. E P Watkins,
59 Col. Jack Brown,
Volurueers.
Aimy Vol’s
seri pfs.
Army Vol’s.
scripts.
iluntcirs and Conscripts.
an J Con-
Hid Con-
Wilkinson
2d Monday, Fannin
after Banks
Richmond
ay, Hancock
Hancock
Richmond
Harris
Harris
Lanrtas
Lanreus i
Miller
Sliller
Sumter
Sumter
3d Monday, Glynn
after, McIntosh
Haralson.
ay, Glynn
Jlemy
Haralson
Joues
Henry
Murray
Jones
Oglethorpe
Liberty
Pulaski
Murray
Stewart
Oglethorpe j
Union
Eulaski
W*rth
Stewnrt
Monday Wortli
after * 'Bryan
4th Monday,Wayne
Decatur
DcKalb
Houston
Jasper
Lincoln
Scliley
Wlfitfield
Wilcox
Friday after, Telfair
Camden
Thursday after, Irwin
Monday “ Berrien
Charlton
MAY
1st Monday. Clayton
.Seriven
Gilmer
Randolph
Upson
2d Monday, Catoosa
Jefferson
Chatham
Fannin
Mitchell
Muscogee
3d Monday, Bibb
Burke
Quhttnan
Spalding
Troup
Union
Baker
Thursday after Towns
4th Monday. Dade
Terrell
Last Monday, Colquitt
JUNE.
1st Monday, Lowndes
Dougherty
2d Monday. Brooks
Clay
3d Monday. Thoms
Corulry !
1 J J Morrison,
2 W J Lawton,
3 M J Crawford,
Caralry—Provisional Army.
1 Lieut. Col. Chas. Spaulding,
2 Maj. M Camming,
3 Maj. D L Clinch,
Legions.
1 Col.TRRCobb, Provisional Army.
2 Col. Wm. Phillips, Volunteers.
Battalions.
The paper of all the genuine notes
is of poor quality, but in the counter
feit it is of a fair quality of bank note
paper.
'Note.—The hair line is not an infallible test,
as I have seem one on a counterfeit—but a famil-
iority with the face of the sailor on the genuine
bill will enable you to detect the false one on
sight. J. J.
IN CHAMBERS AT MILLEDGEV1LLE, >
November 8th, 1862. j
Asa O. Jeffers—Conscript. )
vs >Habeas Corpus.
John Fair—Enrolling agent )
Asa O. Jeffers, through his counsel, de
nies that the recent act of the Confederate
Congress providing “further for the de
fence,” commonly called the Conscript
Act, is constitutional, and seeks by his
petition to be discharged from the custody
of the Enrolling agent for the reason as
signed.
Conscription ! What is it ? I under-
into the
ment it has a clear and well defined limit,
beyond which it cannot go without anni
hilating the State government, and even
the Confederate government itself. To
the extent to which some of the advocates
of this power go, I cannot go—for exercised
as they contend it should be.it would pro
duce the most perfect military despotism
tlie world ever saw—uniting in the hands
of the President all the powers of govern
ment now wisely distributed among the
three departments both of the State and
Confederate governments.
In the very structure and. nature of the
two distinct systenfs of State and Confed
eraie governments is to he found that lim
it. The creators of the Confederate gov
ernment cannot be supposed ever to have
conferred a power on its agent which could
he used for their destruction. No con-
scriptian act therefore could ever be made
to reach any one belonging to either of
the Executive, Legislative or Judicial de-
un
stand it to be the compulsory registry of j partments of the State or Confederate gov-
individuals of a certain age to be drafted | ernments. All other citizens of the States
Volunteers.
Volunteers.
Provisional Army.
Provisional Army.
Provisional Army.
Provisional Army.
Vol’s., foimerly <J A
L Lamar s.
Voi’s, formerly 33d
Regiment.
Provisional
Volunteers.
rimy.
Thursday after Towns
! Thursday ) Montgomery
after ‘
!4th Monday, Wayne
. Decatur
DeKalb
Houston
Jasper
Lincoln
Schley
Tattnall
Whitfield
Wilcox
Fx'iday after, Telfair
Camden
Thursday after, Irwin
Mondnv after Charlton
NOVEMBER.
1st Monday, Berrien
Seriven
Ciayton
Effingham
Randolph
Upson
pld Monday, Catoosa
Jefferson
Mitchell
Muscogee
3d Monday, Bibb
Burke
Gnitlman
Spalding
Troup
Baker
4th Monday. Dade
Terrell
Thursday after. McIntosh
Monday “ Colquitt. !
“ Liberty
Mon. after Liberty, Bryan
DECEMBER.
1st Monday, Dougherty
Lowndes
2d Monday,'Brooks
Clay
3d Monday Thonias
1 Maj. G W Ross,
2 Lieut. Col. J B Stovall,.
3 Lieut. Col. W H Stiles.
4 Unknown,
5 Unknown,
6 Unknown, .
7 Lieut. Col. J II Lamar,
8 Lieut Coi A Littlefield,
9 Unknown.
HI Maj. J E Rylander.
11 Not known,
12 Not known,
13 Not know n,
14 Not known,
15 Not known,
16 Not known,
. Artillery.
1 Capt. L P Girardy, Volunteers.
2 Capt. J H Tiller, Volunteers.
3 Capt. G A Dure, Provisional Army.
4 Capt. H N Eiis.
Note —Many of the above regiments and Bat
talions have been changed, and their status cau
only be. ascertained from the Secretary of War.
W e publish as tar as we know, and trust that per-
sons who are better informed, will furnish us, or
some other Press, facts which may enable us to
correct the list from time to time and thus perfect
it. Editors Confederate Union.
Counterfeit Confederate treasury
Elates.
The notes mostly counterfeited are
or detached for military service.
This mode of raising armies is as old as
| the Roman Republic, which existed more
! tfian two thousand years ago. It was re-
| sorted to in France at an early period of
i her Revolution, and by it she was cna-
I bled to bring into the field twelve hundred
thousand men to repel the attacks of com
bined Europe, and to suppress the revolt
of La Vendee, the supporters of the Bour
bon dynasty which had just terminated by
the scaffold- It is, and long has been,
the system of many of the most powerful
nations of Continental Europe.
It existed in Great Britain during
the vigorous administration of the el
der Pitt—afterwards the famous Lord
Chatham.
It has existed in that kingdom time out
of mind, in the form of impressment for its
marine service.
’ It is certainly then not a novel mode of
raising or levying troops, or military
forces for national defence.
But, because it lias been employed by
the Confederate Government, it is denoun-
aie liable to conscription within the ages
of IS and 15. The militia is unknown to
any constitution as a department of gov
ernment. and consequently all the privates
and its officers within the ages aforesaid
are liable to be couscribed.
But it has been argued that if the Con
federate government has the power of rais
ing armies, it can only constitutionally do
so by the modes known and practiced at
the time of the making of the United
States constitution in 17S7, viz:‘Volun-
successful close, and whilst the memory of
their embarrassments growing out of the
employment of militia and requisitions for
them uncomplied with, was fresh and
keen, they promptly and unanimously
blotted out. the words requisitions and
quotas, and substituted in lieu of what
they had repudiated as patriotic statesmen,
the clear, distict and ample power “to
raise and snpport armies.”
The Confederate constitution contains
the grant tints given to Congress in 17S7,
and in the identical words.
To seek as has been done to restrict a
power unlimited by its words to onlv two
modes of raising armies—“voluntarely en
listment” and “requisitions for militia,” in
the face of ail history and reason is the
boldest attempt to pervert clear, precise,
unambiguous words, that it has been my
lot to hear from any disciple of the school
of Jefferson. That they be Jeffersonian
in the profession I will not question—but
I must be permi ted to say that I think
they will find it no easy task to make
such constitutions accord with Jeffersonian
principle or practice.
Can it he supposed that such men as
George Washington, Benjamin Franklin,
James Madison, Alexander Hamilton,
James Wilson, Governeur Morris, John
Rutledge, the Pinckneys of South Caro
lina, and Georgia’s distinguished delegate
Abraham Baldwin, and these persons were
members of the convention of ’87, did not
know the full extent of the power they
conferred “to raise and support armies.”
That such a body of men of the highest
civil and military renown as those 1 have
just named should within four years after
the termination of the Revolutionary war,
painfully and profoundly familiar with the
deficiency of adequate power in the Con
federation of’78 to carry on war, arising
from the jealous restrictions of the States
on the mode of raising armies by it, should
in the new and more perfect form of gov
ernment they were framing perpetuate the
imbecility of the old government, and they j
only meant by the grant in the constitu
tion of ’87 “to raise and support armies,”
to give Congress the right to raise armies
only by voluntary enlistment or requisit
ions on the States for militia is incredi
ble.
If that had been the fact, it would
stultify a collection of the greatest men the
world ever saw in council.
Credat Judeus apclla.
1 might have closed with propriety this
opinion before this—but as tlie subject
is one of vital interest, I will prolong it in
the. hope of contributing something to ex
pose the errors which exist in reference to
the questions discussed. ^
Of what value, let me ask, would liava
been this broad power “to raise and sup
port armies” had it not been as extensive
as it is ? Who could foresee what might
arise in the future.
To meet any exigency which might
occur, wisdom demanded apoweras ample
and co-ex tensive with any emergency.—
To make assurance doubly sure, the con
vention, to silence all cavil, went further,
and invested Congress with full authority
to pass all laws which they might deem
necessary and proper to carry into effect
this general, exclusive and essential pow
er.
But, it is urged that I must construe the
other grants of power in this article of the
constitution in connexion. I have not
only considered them, but all other por
tions of the Constitution, with a view to
collect its true meaning, and / am con
strained to say that I am unable to per
ceive in the clauses iu reference to the
militia to which my attention was particu
larly directed, anything which in the
slightest degree does or ought to effect my
judgment as to the extent of the power to
raise armies.
That Congress may provide for calling
forth the militia to repel invasion, and
when thus calied forth, that the appoint
ment of its officers belongs to the States,
admits of no doubt. But how do these
clauses elucidate the question as to the
-
tavy enlistment, and requisitions on the ; extent of the power of Congress to raise
Governors for militia.’ ' and support armies, or of the aptness of the
It strikes me as very strange that a means used to carry that power into execu-
strict constructionist should seriously ask tion ? To call forth the militia organized
me to interpolate conditions and restric- : in Divisions, Brigades or Regiments with
tions into sc broad, unambiguous and un- j tlieir State officers, or not to call them
qualified a power as that to raise and sup- forth thus organized and officered is a
port armies without first demonstrating question solely within the discretion <ffi Con-
that from the very nature and structure of gress. r I o assert that it is bound to call
our systems of government such conditious
and restrictions are essential to their pre
servation in all their departments.
What right have I to saj r that Congress
may raise armies only by voluntary enlist
ment—or, failing in that, by requisitions
ced as violative of the Constitution of the
Confederacy, because Congress could have j 0 n tlie Governors for militia, and not in
resorted to other modes of raising troops, | any other mode whatever ] In substance,
| viz : ‘Voluntary enlistment’ or to ‘requisi- | I am urged to decide that to be the mean-
| tions for militia.’ j ing of the framers of the Constitution of
It is asserted that ‘Conscription’ violates ’S7, and that those two modes exhaust the
tlie genuine issues ot tlie.se notes there Are not these fears the mere phantoms
is a shield in the upper left, corner, the 0 f diseased imaginations, filled with
“Gorgons, Hydras and chimeras dire.”?
the right upper corner of which is
i placed in the centre between the let-
I ter N in months directly over it. In
! the counterfeit the corner of tlie shield
: is placed directly under the right down
j stroke of the letter A.
I am, after carefully considering many of
the objections urged against the constitu
tionality of the law, compelled to differ
with the great dramatist who said—-’Twas
the eye of childhood only, that feared a
at each
HUNDREDS.
The Sailor in the lower left cornerl
of the genuine note wears a black belt, \
] with a buckle very distinct,—in the
I com
power, was the great
controlling design of the Convention that
framed that constitution. If such had
been the meaning of the people of the Uni
ted States when by tlieir delegates they
were engaed in ’87 in revising the old ar
ticles of confederation entered into in
1778, why were not these limitations 1 in
corporated into the new frame of govern
ment in clear and express terms?
■painted devil,’ since every hour is exhibit- ,
ing grown up men alarmed, or pretending j l' 1 ibis connection Jet it he borne in
be alarmed, at the bodiless creations ol mind that in the articles of confederation
their own imaginations. I shall not dis-'‘here was no general power‘to raise ar-
- . I cuss the reasonableness or reality of their I mies.’ The Congress could raise armies
l :i DucKte very distinct, in ltl ‘ f car s—nor the consequences which may \ by agreeing upon the number of land forces
Jterleit the belt is very llgut, and j eiiSue f rom an acknowledgement of the I and by making requisitions from each. State
•May holds three weeks, if necessary
term. . e t •
t.Tuhfoe , ’ 0t it r ^'jj2 r ^ 1 toV.idTwo weeks’Court face of tin: sailor-in the genuine is fine ! enact that law.
weeks; an .. - ,. and regular—in the counterfeit the i The simple question is, had Congress
the buckle scarcely to he seen. The j j )0wer of the Confederate Government to J or >ts Jttota in proportion to its white popu-
i counties of Cohb and Lmuukio.
S IXTY days after fiat? application
the Hooora' '
ill be made to
? :,iwa / d i c - nud T1,omas p ‘
ELIAS U C'HAMBiOX. AfimV.
(L.S.)
Nor. 4th, IS62.
25 9t.
regular-
mouth seems pinched up, and the eyes j the constitutional power to enact it ?
have a bleared or scratched look. 1 1 apprehend that none will deny that
The sailor in the left hand end leans i t,1R highest duty of Congress is that of
upon an anchor, diagonally across the i P rovidh, 8 fort ! ie ^imon defence of all the
J i States composing the Confederacy.
No
’ixty
1*5 to the lio'notable the (' t' _ .
Twiggs county, Gn.. for un
all the lands, and such portion
may he necessary, belonging
order for leave to sell
of the negroes as
to the estate of
tuny be necessary, ur,. deoeas- uyj “
Hartwell L. Folomon, !at jQ H N FAULK, Ex’r. centre vignette,
(ts)
ed
Nov. 4th, 1862.
25 9t
S IXTY
the
to sell the
M McDow
Nor. 3.1, 1862.
Nt-grots belonging the estate
veM, 1 “*y o f E t d C :°McDOB ELL, Afirn’r.
vignette from left to ri«:ht, in the gen- i , . i i f
. 7 . 7 . P statesman will deny but that the means for
ume,tnere is a hair hno* very distinct, ; that purpose should he adequate to the
as it tlie >tone irom which the impres- | end proposed—aud that there would Lea
sion was taken had been broken or signal failure in any and every form of
cracked. In the counterfeit there is government, which did not provide them,
no such blurr or hair line. Ill the Let us see how far the States in forming
their Confederate Constitution did delegate
cotton press, is a mule—in the genuine 'J~ or the comm,m defence, their sovereign
it is very indistinctly executed, and the 1 nnwprK ‘
mule looks as if he were walking from
you, presenting only a tail view—in
itisveryindiBtmctlye.vecuted.andthe p °K" ConW „„, e Co[gress , haU w
>»«i« !o ’ oks ** in,e w»iw»g
H X)
the counterfeit it is much plainer, and
power
To declare war.
To raise and support armies.
lotion. Thus the power was a limited
one.
'I'iie illustrious men of the Revolution
and all the historians of those times unite
in the. condemnation of the whole system
of requisitions • for inilitia, and in saying
that a»a military force it was more expen
sive and less efficient than troops raised by
other modes. They further say that by
adhering to that system we came very
near losing our independence.
Are we never to profit by the expe
rience of our Revolutionary fathers with
out paying the high price for it they
paid ?
The framers of the constitution of 1787
were well acquainted with our whole revo-
lutionary history—many of them had
participated both in council and in the
field in conducting that revolution tn a
forth all liable to military service as militia
is to beg the question, which they are
called on to prove.
Is not the argument that Congress must
call forth as militia, officered by the State,
&c., virtually a denial of the right of Con
gress to raise an army, through recruiting
officers, by the voluntary enlistment of the
citizen ?
If so the Confederate government would
be reduced to rely on drafted men furnish
ed by the States, in obedience to a call, or
on volunteer organizations by companies,
battalions and regiments with their State
officers. Voluntary enlistment means in
its most usual signification something else
than volunteer organizations—it is that
system which has been used for the pur
pose of tilling up the ranks of what is
termed the Regular Army. It is argued
that the Confederate government may
enlist individuals to a limited extent, hut
that it cannot through its recruiting offi
cers enlist all the men composing the
militia, for that would be to annihilate tho
militia. This reasoning appears to me to
be strange, making the constitutionality of
the exercise of an admitted right to depend
on the number enlisted and source of sup
ply. From what class of men in a State
except those between 18 and 45 years of
age, can an efficient military force he
procured ? It must of necessity be from
this class, or our young government will
be driven in making up her armies for
defence, into European shambles to pur
chase soldiers as did Great Britain in her
war against us in 1776.
Can any one deny the right of the Con
federate Congress to declare by law that it
is the duty and honor of the citizen to serve
in the army of his country ? Such an
enactment might be deemed compulsory.
If compulsion isnecessary to raise an
army to defend ourcountry, who will
dare say that the government charged
with the common defencemay not
use it ? Compulsion is foree.—Conscrip
tion by the Confederate government
and draft by the State government are
alike compulsory measures of force—
they are twins of the same .parentage
and so much alike that if will require keen
optics to distinguish them apart.
I think that every fair and candid obser
ver of the state of things in Georgia now
will concede unhesitatingly —the prompt,
free, willing, voluntary spirit which put,
hitherto so many of her sons in the mili
tary service—lias expired. In vain, un
less under the threat of an immediate
draft, could any one hope to collect
enough men to form a regiment. The
Confederate government cannot depend
on that spirit to fill up her army. Resort
then, says the State rights man of the hour
to drafting the militia. But drafting is
compulsion and force. Conscription is to
drag the poor citizen who cannot buy a
substitute to Richmond, far away from
wife and home, and “in chains.” Does
not the draft, when resorted to by the
Governor of a State do just the precise
same thing, tbev sav conscription will
do?
What, then, is the value of the choice
between the two modes of putting a soldier
into the army?
The difference at most is that when
drafted with others, to make a regiment,
he has the right to elect his officers.
Does the exercise of this State right
lessen the iguominy or pressure of his
“chains ”?
By Conscription, ho may not have the
right to ballot for his officers, yet, practi
cally, as its design is to fill up Regiments
thinned by disease and battle, the Geor
gia conscript is permitted to join any regi
ment from Georgia, not full, he prefers.- --
His comrades are Georgians who have
become skilled by discipline and long
service to command, and who have won
imperishable renown for their constancy
and cool coarage in the field.
As the force is tiie same by “Draft” as
in “Conscription.” it would seem that the
whole contest as to which government
should exercise it, resolves itself into a
dispute rather for patronage to be directly
or indirectly exerted. Reduced to this
complexion, might not a looker on whose
mind was filled with deep anxiety from
the dissentions which are painfully appa
rent in this hour of gloom aud peril, ask
with tremendous significance,
“Is the game worth tho candle’’?
We are tojd by an eminent statesman
“that power controlled or abridged is al
most always the rival or enemy of that
power by which it is controlled or abridg
ed.”
Georgia, by the unanimous vote of her
I delegates in Convention ratified the Con
federate Constitution, containing the giants
of power herein enumerated, among them
the unqualified, unconditional, and exclusive
power to Congress “to raise aud support
armies—together with the power to make
all laws which it shall deem necessary
and proper to carry into execution all of
those powers.”
Has Georgia with her power to raise
armies abridged and controlled by her own
free act, at this early day, and in the midst
of a terrific war for life, liberty and inde
pendence as a State, for our homes and
hearthstones, become the rival and enemy
of the Confederate government, because
she is controlled by that government in
the manner and mode of raising armies for
her defence? That Constitution that thus
abridges her power is as much her Consti
tution as her State Constitution—its agents
are as much her agents as are the agents
of the State Constitution. Why then
should she by false and unfounded con
struction attempt to fritter down t.. noth
ing, a power so broad and absolute, and
which lias no limit to its exercise, in my
humble opinion, hut the clear and well
marked boundary which I have in this de
cision delineated? If Georgia is dissat
isfied with the grants of power she has
made as too broad and unlimited, and that
they were unwisely delegated—if she
wishes to dwarf her dimensions to a petty
State, not wanting aid from others—her
pathway is plain—let her go into State
Convention—recall her grants—dissociate
herself from her sister States, and bring
hack all her sons to the defence of her soil.
This would be to make a Revolution in the
midst of a Revolution.
1 cannot believe she will thus rashly
act. I think when shecooly examines this
question in tlie clear light of our past his
tory, she will not listen to that construction
founded upon the usages of the United
States and Great Britain, in 1787—and
which if engrafted, would emasculate the
great and essential power to raise and
support armies, of all its virility.
Afteu listening attentively to the argu
ments presented by the counsel for the
Conscript, I have been thrown back in
memory to the Conventions of Virginia
and Maryland, to which the Federal Con
stitution was submitted for ratification.
The general power “to raise and support
armies” was under discussion. The op
ponents of that Constitution made tho same
objections now made—they sought to limit
the power as it is now sought to be limit
ed. The argument to-day is but the re
production of old ideas and old objections,
with less fire, but more rhetorical embel
lishment. All those arguments and ob
jections failed, happily for the country,
and the Constitution as it came from tho
hands of its framers was adopted and be
came the supreme law of the land.
I have thus with the independence
which becomes a Judge, discussed a ques
tion brought before me almost without no
tice—without full argument supported by
authority on the part of the enrolling
agent, been forced hastily, within the short
space of twenty-four hours, to reduce this
opinion to writing, that it might be pre
sented at once to the Supreme Court for
review. I offer no apology for the rea
soning. My ideas have been well consid
ered. My regret only is that I had not
ample time to clothe them in language
worthy of the magnitude of the questions
discussed.
In concluding this decision candor
compels me to say that for months past
I have carefully read everything I
couid find to aid me in arriving at a
firm conviction. The result of my con
sideration is to be found in what pre
cedes this. I have no doubt whatever
after investigation. Had I entertained
any it would have been "dispel led by
the clear, distinct and emphatic opin
ions of Col. Geo. M. Troup, whilst
the House of Representatives were in
Committee of the Whole on several
bills, to-wit;; “A bill for the classify
ing the militia,” the bill “to authorize
the President to accept volunteers
organized, and who may offer their
services to the government,” &c M and
two Senate bills, providing for calling
forth militia. He said. “Tiie measure
of the Senate is inadequate to the ob
ject. It proposed to give you a Militia
force, when you wanted a regular force.
He respectfully suggested to the