New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-10-11
friday MORNING, OCTOBER IL, 1861.
GENERAL D. E. TWIGGs.

beth. and die for both, If need be, but, unfortu
nately, physical incapacity prevents. His head is
his brain active and his patriotism as ferveni
Is Of yore hnt, as minated above the disabilities
of disease preventing that personal and active at
sention which he deemed necessary to the require,
4 ments of the occasion, he asked to be relieved
His motives will be duly appre ciated by his fellow
citizens, and his conduct correspondingly hon
cred. The subjoined dispatch from the Acting
Secretary Of War needs no explanation
RICHMoSD, Oct. 8, ISGl.-- Gen. ID. B. Itciggs
Your dispatch received. The Department learns
with regret that the state of yonr health is such
Il as 10 cause You to request to be relieved from &C
i've duty. our request is granted, but you are
expected to remain in command until the arrival
8 of Gen. Mansfield Lowell, who has been appointed
s 70 saceead you, and who leaves for New Orleans
- 'AloA u : !. -
scott's First Regiment LonisIana Cavalry
This corps Of calvalry IS now almost raady 10
march for the seat of.war, fully armed, equipped
and mounted, and We take pride in expressing our
belief that none equal to it has yet been raised in
y The Confederate service. The privates of this
regiment are men Of good social position, who do.
\ not volunteer from any considerations Of pay,
emolunent OF petit ambition but from a sense Of
duty to their conntry and to It's Institutions. The
getting up OF this corps has been done without a
dollars expense to the Government, although be-,
tween $500 600 and $500 900 has been been ex-
pended upon it. This enormous sum was raised
I BY subscriptions from private parties-was given
hy men who, unable to 60 themselves. sent their
sous and gave money to the cause, and also by the
different country parishes, where companies were
raised, appropriang thousands of dollars for their
equipment and fitting out.
But this has all been done in the country. The
city of New Orleans has not had, as yet. any show
in this crack Cavalry Regiment. She is to have a
show, however, and one, too, peculiarly suited to
I tie genius Of her people. For it is proposed to
attach to the regiment three guns, two l2pound
4 hoWitzers, and one rifed cannon, the expenses
4 attending which it is hoped the citizens Of New
Orleans will bear. This battery is to be gotten up
gsWith special eye to celebrity Of nloyement-wnl
be made light, and the carriages in sections, SO
that they can be taken apart and packed on mules,
over mountains and through broken or uneven
country. The appendage Of this light artillery to
TIE regiment will greatly add to its strength and
Importance in a country like that in which it is
intended to ait, and enable it to serve the Confed
eracy ID d manner perfectly satisfactory to them
selves and their friends at home. ]t
In the equipping and fitting out Of the artillery,
It ii expected that the people of New Orleans will
display an equal degree Of generosity with the |
people Of the country. We know their habitual |
generosity, and have seen 50 many evidences of
their desire to maintain the high reputation Of the
city abroad and at home, that we are satisfied that
this viii be done and done, too, in a 1nostscredit
able style, quickly and well. 1t could hardly be
expected that New Orleans could vie with the
country parishes in the efficiency of her cavalry;
but ID artillery she considers herself second to no
locality in the world The idea, therefore, to in.
corporate small artillery corps with SCOTS Regi
ment must be particularly acceptable, and shows |
desire on the part Of its originators to give the
metropolis Of the State an equal chance with the /
country il this great offering Of the citizens Of
our State to the Government. An advertisement
in another column, to which we refer the reader,
gives the names Of several prominent citizens who
l receive contr ibutions for the purpose Of equip
ping the artillery attached to the First Regiment
Louisiana Cavalry. W ls l5
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