Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-04-28
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The Philadelphia North American of the
24th, thus describes the condition of a por-
ton of the men who have enlisted in that
State to subjugate the South:
cat Camp Curtin, near Harrisburg. we are
told by gentleman who has just returned
from there, all is DISCRIMINATION, and the
gathering has more the appearance of mob
than an army. If the country companies and
regiments which have passed through Phila-
delphia may serve as fair specimens we
should judge this report to be true. After
midnight on Monday they fired off guns as
they marched through the streets of our city.
We saw several companies. They had ar
rived in the city during the night. and had
had nothing 10 eat since leaving Harrisburg
When we saw them they were discontented.
insubordinate, and swearing at the city. their
officers and everything else They had each
man a loaf of bread stuck on his bayonet,
that being the only way they could carry
their next meal, as they had no knapsacks
A blanket was slashed around the body, and
some had what seemed like satchel hung
at the side, which we took to be either
pouch for cartridges or place to put ra-
ton of meat. Others had no cartridge pouch
at all, and on being asked pulled their car
tridges out of their pockets. which seemed to
be stuffed full of them. One man told US
that he had been furnished with no ration
since he left his home in Huntingdon.
A number of companies from Schuylklll
looked as though taken fresh from the mines,
hands and faces being blaeked with coal
dust. Indeed, all of them might be regarded
fairly as the great unwashed, whether COM
Ing from Schuylkill or anywhere else AS
for uniform, we did not see the slightest pre-
tence at it among any of these men. One
German company had not even arms. .Sev-
eral companies had no drummers, and there
was one regiment so completely disorganiz-
ed that the men could not tell the names of
any of their officers except the Colonel. In
quiries for the quarter-master seemed to be
truitless, as there appeared to be none, ana
yet there were over six hundred men in this
regiment, commanded, too, by member OF
the Legislature.
This is the sort of material Of which the
regiments from the interior are formed. In
most cases they are totally ignorant of the
organization of battaliOns, regiments and
brigades. and we fear very much that half OF
them have not proper regimental officers to
provide for their wants. We are aware of the
difficulties surrounding so great task as
the uniforming, arming and provisioning OF
such masses; but it is surprising that no ade-
quate arrangements have been made here to
supply these poor fellows with food or quar-
tiers. On Monday night company from the
interior, in a famished state, excited the COM
miseration of Lieut.. Paullen. of the Seventh
ward police, so that he took up subscrip-
tion among the spectators and raised about
forty dollars, with which good meal was
given 10 every man. A regiment from west
ern Pennsylvania, raw, rough, famished and
clamorous, marched into the Continental
Hotel at midnight and ordered supper.
The servants were all abed, no food was
cooked and no orders had been received to
feed these men. Nevertheless, the humane
proprietors of the hotel hurriedly got togeth-
er ham, bread, etc., with view of sending
it to the railroad depot, whittier the men
were to be marched. Scarcely had these pro-
visions made their appearance when they
were seized and divided out among the
starving multitude of soldiers, each man
taking ham, a sausage, a loaf of bread, or
whatever else he could lay hands on"