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About The Independent South. (Waynesboro, Ga.) 1860-186? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1862)
J-.. / 6 WAYNESBORO, FKBltUARY 1, “Fia« Just it in HuntCerium.” Mr.J.l.liHS II. D.WIH!,, I.ouriniUiiir- izi-cl A"ont, 1.1 rccoivo mul niooi|il for uuraoy iluo Re-enlisting and a Burke Regiment^ The re-enlisting for the war, lias already commenced in those Regi ments whoso time will expire by May and even later, and it must be cheer ing to those whoso hearts are wed- edto our Southern homos and altars, and who have resolved to live free men or die patriots, to learn that the. spirit which markcs the re-enlist ing, is as prompt and gallant as that which moved them to moot the in vader twelve months ago; only in tensified by a restless pride of valor, which has been chafed by the “ mas terly inactivity” of the military ge- |rt nitis of our cheit's. It could not be otherwise with a people who have vowed a holy love to their country’s hontior and an avenging fate to her despoiling foe, and who have been |]] I anxious to maintain both or nobly I full in thonttempt. The suggestion t has been offered from several com |,t panics that a Regiment or Battallion j he formed of the Burke Troops, thus having its officers of our immediate friends and relatives, and not the |l appointees of the military intrigue of those in power. The service will bo thus releivod of its most odious objections—the unkind, tyranical usurpations of power which is often the misfortune of the parveinte in office, especially if not restrained by thatcommunity of interest and pride of social position at homo, which would characterise every gentleman |,] .in our Regiment. We have now in jsictivc service seven companies and (two or three from tho adjacent conn-r J tics, which would willingly come in,( would compose a Regiment, entitled to officors by tho selection of the Regiment, from tho position of Co-, lonel down. , We feel assured if the suggestion is deliberated by our mothers and fathers and our friends, that they will exercise their influence in the establishment of such an arrange ment, feeling as wo all must, that it would bo much more satisfactory to have our sons and brothers all group ed together in the same Providence . | honor and glory or shaming alike together our country’s sufferings and woes. Wo would bo then more closely bound together in our great struggle, as tho pride of each heart and tho light of every house-hold in our community would bo battling in one phalanx for tho achievement of our liberties and hearthstones.— From the bright report which many of our gallant ones have already re turned, wo can surely boast, that such a Regiment can bo officered at home, with as efficient and noble soldiers, as our valorous armies can produce from any field. The ardent devotion of “kith and kin” begets in us, a sanguiue vaticination which has already deci phered a finger on tho wall inscrib ing a proud and glorious future for more than one of old Burke’s noble and gallant sons. Gen. Zollicoller > In the fall of this brave patriot, tlie Confederacy has lost a gallant warrior, and one of its most power ful motive spirits in tho maintain- ance of Southern sentiment in Tennessee. Perhaps no rnan in our martial ranks wielded more influence upon the masses of his stato than ho did, and none more ardent in directing that influence in belmlf of our south ern cause; Wherefore our whole country must deeply mourn his death. Tho defeat of our forces at Fish ing Creek wo fear from general rumor, will not only prove a dis graceful affair, but even an expose of a disloyal treachery. It is intens- !)’ mortifying, as it is basely inhu man, that so large a portion of om command should be men ofso prof ligate habits of inebriation and that on? country’s honor and our liber ties and the lives of our noble fel lows, should bo confided to tho mili tary dictum of drunken sots and un principled intriguosts. Gcir Crit- tended has been cashiered two or threo times for his drunken beasti- nl 1 ties, and Gen. Carrol would ho slandered if ho were charged' of having been sober twelve hours in twelve months, and yet our social and politicial salvation and the blood of our bravo sons and brothers is intrusted to such malmscycd conduction. Then why have liio powers in authority made such appointments or why continue to tolerate such heinous griovcanccs? Is the disgrace of our arms and tho slaughter of our bravo patriots the design of our revolution? If so? Then such appointments will surely acheivo such results. H Aminat Ec
