New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-05
First Regiment Of Esouasiana VI olunteers.

y Capt. Girardey's company Of Louisiana Guards
has been detached from the First Regiment Louis
lana Volunteers at Norfolk, and transferred from
the infantry to the artillery service; so we learn
from the Day Book. a writer in that paper pays
the following just tribute TO the worth of Col.
Blanchard, of this city, who went out in command
of the regiment: ass la.
Col. ALBERT g. BLANCHARD. = The Third Bri-
gade, embracing the troops between Portsmouth
and the Nansemond river, and including the bat
teries at Pig Point, Old Town Point and the Flying
Artillery on the beach in the vicinity Of Graney
Island is commanded blythe distinguished officer
whose name heads this article His headquarters
are at Portsmouth, within short distance Of the
Ocean House, where, when of duty, he is DOM
iciled. a, +@ Ef as5.a sas
Col B. came here at the head of the First Louis
lana Regiment but his prestige as an educated
soldier and his gallantry in the late Mexican war,
pointed to his qualifications for larger field and
a more extensive command. He was accordingly
assigned to the division the Portsmouth side of the
Elizabeth river, now known as the Third Brigade,
and which, besides his once Louisiana troops, COM
prises sundry regiments and battalions, horse and
foot from other localities. Two OF these regl-
ments are from Georgia, and it may be propheeed
with safety that in the event cf battle, they will
add to the laurels already Won by the troops Of
| their State. .sAs 'st.&t -sf3 E5S n 4ga
| The Colonel is practical soldier-as plain as he
| is prompt, always courteous, but always decided
| He receives communications, listens to- compli-
nlents, and determines by extemporizing, or by
| issuing orders, as the case may require, With q
readiness and bearing which at once testify to his
| competency and sincerity. Acquainted with all
1 the details of the service, he renders his decisions
| with brief but generally satisfactory reason.
| His popularity with his officers and men, springs
no less from the confidence theyrepose in his we'll
1 tested qualifications than from the open, frank and
impartial manner with which he conducts the busi-
ness of his department. The humblest soldier can
approach him and feel perfectly at ease. And this
| confidence is reciprocated; his men are eager to
go with him to battle, and he is equally impatient
to lead them on to glory. = e,5essEss ~
The locale Of the Third Brigade is highly mpor-
tant to the defence of the harbor. It embraces an
area of some eighty or ninety square miles, with
an accessible water margin of some fifteen miles,
and to become fully acquainted withthe topography
of the country its various creeks, rivers, inlets
| swamps and cross and diverging roads, in mill
tary point of view, is small undertaking. This,
| however, has been fully accomplished by the
| Colonel in series of reeonnoisances made by
| him in person. Indeed he has the whole country,
with all its avenues, whether to be regarded as
! lines of attack or defence, largely mapped out
| upon his mind and memory.
! 1t speaks well for the military sagacity of the
commander in-chief Gen HHger, that the destiaies
of the Third Brigade are devolved upon one &C
competent to the service. And it is eminentiy
gratifying to the people of Portsmouth and the
surrounding country, that their defences is com
mitted to a brigade with such noble materials