Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-08-11
FROM PENSACOLA,
CORRESPONDENTS Atlanta InteDigencer.1
CAMP WALKER, NEAR PENsA

contemporaries Atlanta Inteligencer.l
CAMP WALKER, NEAR PENSACOLA
August 4, 1851.
Last night at u O'Clock, while our troops
were all in the sweet embrace Of Morpheus,
save the sentinels, we were aroused by The
long rol-which is 2 Sll for every one to rise
from bis plank, blankm1ss or perhaps out OF the
sand. "The blind, las'e and the halt" all
soon With their ready guns and accoutrements,
were in lines, and from what I can learn, oll
were ready and willing, only fearing that it
would terminate, as it did-"a fash in the
pam" On inquiry, | find that the poor miser-
able hirelings, being tortured so very much by
mosquitoes, feas and flies, wanted to get rid
Of the pest for a few months, consequently
they hitched on some seven or eight schOoners
to a steamboat and approached il gun shot Of
our wharf, whersupon the long roll was sound
ed, and soon it echoed throughout tie vicinity
of Warrington. This sound was rather IN
pleasant to their ear, so they concluded that it
was not healthy to remain longer in that par
hculaT locality.
My humble opinion is that they wanted to
attract more Of our attention to the navy yard,
OF try to make Gen. Bragg believe thai they
will attempt at landing troops 10 the navy
yard, and make one grand effort al East PISS
and at PeTtido; the former being about forty
miles above, and the latter ten miles below.
Wnen such a landing is effected, they would at
once march in on US on the rear. But all OF
tins, or the smallest, will never be put into ex
%ecujion the point Of a bayonet is a horror to
the Yankee generation. They are now, agree
able TO the report, Of a late deser; er in rather
a slim "predicameRt," as the yellow fever has
made its appearance in their gloomy midst.
and Billy Wilson's cut-.hroats have every
thing portable IN the fort, and have been re-
moved about one and a half miles below.
All the de5eTters concur in saying that SO
OF their regiment would come over If they
could, and they have only 2200 men on Santa
Rosa and three batteries. If we keep on get
ting the piCkpOckets, | think we can practice
the plan given By a wag in the Mexican war,
who was always in the lookup, who stated
that if Gen. Scott would release him he would
tell him how be could take Vera Cruz without
the loss Of a man.. So soon as this intelli-
gence was received the general went and re-
leased hin, whereupon the wag said, ''turn the
18th Massachusetts regiment loose, and Pm be
id If they don't steal it." ! think we will
have enough Of Wilson's men TO turn loose
with a little assistance and take Pickens. "In
out Of the wet"
Gen. W. Walker, who has for some time been
in command of a part of the forces, saw that
be could not get into a fight, and left for the
Old Dominion. Col. Wood, Of Alabama,
now acts in the absence Of Col. Clarion, Of
the same S ate, who is his senior officer, and
will take command on his return. II Gen.
Walker was in command OF the troops here,
some member Of this battalion could write you
by forty-eight hours, Of another victory, and
Fort PIckens would be Uncle Jsf's.
W. J. P.