Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-08-20
Prepare for the Winter Campaign
Make the Soldier COmforta BILE.
From the Richmond Examiner.

When the Thermometer islands" at nine
| ty-five in the shade, and the streets are made
| hideous by the discordant screenings OF
| vendors of hot melons and cool impudence,
| the wisest and most thoughtful of us are not
| much more prone than butterflies and grass
| hoppers to think of the dreary winter months,
| with their SHOWS, north winds and frosts.-
Under ordinary circumstances, when negro
clothing and fire-wood are the principal cares
which those months bring with them, it mat
tiers little whether they occupy our thoughts
or not during the sweltering months of Au-
gust and September. AS, however, winter
campaign is now a fixed and inevitable TACT,
and as some four or five hundred thousand
brave Southern volunteers are to be exposed
to its hardships, it behooves every man, wo-
man and child in the slave States to be pro-
viding for their comfort. To the peltings of
every pitiless storm, to every cutting wind,
20 every snow and frost our soldiers must be
exposed during the approaching winter. In
RECONSTRUCTED huts, or encampSd in
their tents, these soldiers are to suffer every
privation which winter may bring with it.
Let the thousands who will enjoy the ap-
preaching winter months snugly ensconced
by blazing fires protected by thick walls and
well-covered roots, remember that their de-
tenders are to spend the long nights of win
ter exposed to every storm. Let them re-
member that if through neglect and exposure
those brave defenders are stricken down, not
only will there be grief in every family, but
rapine, confiscatiOn and subjugation at every
door.
We earnestly conjure all who are not in
active military service to prepare for the
winter campaign. God has blessed every
State of the Confederacy with such abundant
crops that we can easily feed an army of five
millions of men. All of our energies must
now be directed to providing sufficient warm
and comfortable clothing for our soldiers
The soldier is subjected to SO much exposure
that he will need his winter clothing by the
first or middle of October. Blankets, COM
forts, flannel shirts, thick, strong shoes md
wooden socks, oYercoats; warm, well-lined
pantaloons, padded coats, gloves, worsted
prote ctors for the chest, and numberless 9TH
er articles, will be needed in immense guam
titles by our soldiers. Let every hand be
busy and let every private purse be open for
the preparation and the purchase of these
and other indispensable articles. The South
is full of the raw material from which these
things may be fabricated. They should be
made at every farm house in the South.
There are no fingers too delicate for this
work and none too coarse and Ignorant to be
usefully employed.
If there are any so parsimonious as to hes
itate about contributing to this indispensable
work, we must stimulate them to liberality
by simple suggestion. The property of eUery
citizen of The So,alan Confaderacy, ,olo is not a
traitor of the Garlic type, has been confseated by
a recent act of Tie Yankee Congress. Ii we are
conquered, we are beggared. Lincoln's ruff
fans will seize every acre of our lands and
every variety of personally which we possess.
If we do not triumph we lose all; whilst on
the other hand success will make US in five
years the most prosperous and affluent peo-
pie of modern times.
Literally to our soldiery has become a great
necessity to eueOy property holder in the Confederate
States.
Let no sane man think of money-making
until every battlefield is whitened with the
bones of our sensual, brutal and depraved
invaders. Every thought about gain and
self must now yield to the wants of our brave
soldiery. If, through our neglect and indif-
ference, our armies become disorganized, then
will land, slaves, mules, horses, cattle, bonds
and stocks become worthless. except to the
rapacious Yankee invaders.
Every feeling of patriotism and every sell
fish consideration require US to devote money,
labour-indeed, everything-to the comfort
of our soldiers.