The eastern clarion. [volume] (Paulding, Miss.) 1837-1863, 1861-07-12
Editorial Correspondence.


NA4t ALAkEt AQruth Miss
juno 2lth 1861.
DEAR ClAuos.-l have been thinking
for several days Of sending you few
| Lines but indisrosilIon, business and the
fact tba. there was nothing Of special in
terest 70 communicate have induced me
10 postpone writing until the present
So tar aa we know here, there Is no oer-
toinl Of what disposition will be made
Of the three regiments stationed at this
place. They are all armed, and are ready
10 move at M hours notice It's thought
they viii be sent TO Union city, or to the
assistance Of Gov. JACKSON Of Missouri
but This Is all conjecture, However we
have little hope Of being sent to Nir-
ginia, though thousands Of troops are
passing through here for that State
Scarcely a day but a number Of troops
varying from a company to battalion
are seen passing in sight Of our camps on
the Memphis and Charleston Rail Road
All the companies and Regiments that
have enlisted for the war are sent in that
direction
Almost every day we hear reports Of
bloody battles fought and won on the
soil of the old Dominion, but oontradic-
ted the next day by later intelligence,
and on the whole l am pretty we'll per-
suaded that there will be no. real fighting
until after the meeting of the Lincoln
Congress. The two armies are md have
been close enough for some time to have
fought several battles if it was the real
desire Of either to engage at once in the
bloody work.
After the opening Of the Federal Con
gress, if the Republicans persist in their
determination for war, you may expect
sharp and sanguinary engagements. But
of this nous vsrrons.
Our Regiment, 1.-THE l6th) is in as efici-
ent a condition as any of those here
Gen. CHARLES CLARK, who has charge OF
the Confederate troops at this place and
at Union city, being frequently called
from here, and during his absence Col.
PosEY being senior Colonel, is acting
Bngadier General and our Lieutenant
Colonel, ROBERT CLARK, has command Of
the 10th Regiment.
Col. Clark in consequence of Col Posey's
other duties has had most Of the drilling
Of our Regiment in his hands. lie is
thorough tactician, untiring in his exer-
tons and as competent for his position as
! any man in the service.
i Since | wrote my last letter Major
4 Bankston Of our company, who Yves cleo
: ted to the Office of Major Of the Regiment,
resigned and Thomas r. Stockdale was
. elected Major. We all regretted Bankston's
resignation. The cause of it was this
. difidence and modesty. He was I'M
doubleday competent understood the du-
: ties Of the office, and could have discharg,
O ed them if he had been more plentlfully
: suppueu with what some others coulo
! well spare-6rass Under the Circumstance;
Bankston's course was right. He was not a
candidate for the Office in the first place,
= but was elected without effort on his part;
and no one should censure him for his
resignation-caused by his possessing in
too high degree, a quality which is in
these days so rare. His intercourse with
our company, and as its first Lieutenant
endeared him to all its members We
5 know him to bea high toned chivalrous
gentleman. | hope the cause Of his resig
nation will be understood and appreciated
by our citizens at home No one can be-
lieve who knows him it was from any dis
] inclination to serve his country. His
service of eighteen months in the Next
can war would be refutation of that
9 Major Stockton had been acting as Adiu-
/ tant up to the time Of his election. No
better selection for Major could have been
made. He is Lawyer Of eminence from
Pike county, and of conrse has enough OF
t what friend Bankston was deficient in
J selfconfdenoe.
+ The collection of Major causing
' vacancy in the Adjutants Office, this inn
e portant position was rendered by Col
o Posey, to Lieutenant C. A, Jennings of
: our company. 1t will be highly crafty
I ing to the many friends Of this young
a gentleman to know that it conceded no
/ more udicious selection for that office
could have been made in the whole Regi-
. ment. The Adjutant must be a Lieuten-
a ant. The duties are very onerous. requir-
+ ing constant labor and much of the eff
!. cheney of the Regiment depends upon
E him. The present incumbent has even
e surpassed in the discharge Of his weighty
: duties tho expectation of his friends.
d ! will continue to write oyou as often
as any thing occurs that can be dished up
t into a respectable communication.
S.
e CAMP CLARK, CoRyrH. Mss,
r July jth, 1861.
t DEAR CLARov:-Yesterdy we had
e review Of the three regimGts here-the
! l4th, 18th and 10th, by Gen. CHARLES
i CLARK, the Brigadier Genenl of the Con-
r federate army, commandin.at this place.