New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-08-28

Departure of tie Igetfnt, etc.
Special to the New Orleans crescent.1
CAxp MOORE Aug. "a, 1884, 5
Mr.. Editor-I have shaken the dust Of the Cres-
cent City from my feet only TO have them stuck fn
the mud Of Camp Moore for if there isn't some
mud about here, then I don't know what that
article is. Anxious to realize some of the expe
riencea OF soldiers life, and particularly in q
cause so good as that of the South, now sleep in
soldiers tent, with as good q crowd of boys as
ever started forth on patriotic errand-of COURSE
you know I mean the Gontinentals, Company CT
Capt. Fleming. And, speaking of this company /
hope you will not consider it vaingiorous in me to
state, that though it was but short time forming
and drilling in the city, and was the last but one
to reach this camp, (having arrived only week
ago) it is pronounced the best drilled company on
the ground, and, as such, has been compImented
by the officers in command here. Lieut. Tom
Peyton, in the Captains absence, has managed
admirably.
1t may not be ont Of the way to furnish such of
your readers as have not been here brief sketch
OF Camp Moore. It is a picturesque, if not pretty
place to look at. As it first gli1nmered upon my
vision. by the pale light of the fnoon; the long
rows of white tents beneath the pines excited sem
satons almost sublime-such feelings as one might
experience upon behofding multitude Of ladies in
white hoop-skrts, with their heads cut off at the
waist. Cropping my way under the trees to the
:. Captains office, ?" made the mud discovery and
discovered also that it Is glorious place to cure
The camp, skirting the railroad, and margined on 1
the south by Beaver creek, a little creekIet half
hidden in the brushes, and stealing away az if
ashamed Of being seen, is entirely surrounded with
pines, but not covered; the center, or parade
ground being shorn clean and trodden hard, with
tall pole and the stars and bars in the center.
On the creek side is quite settlement of ahantiea,
called Market street. Here yon find Gen. Traeys
headquarters next the coffee-house and restaurant
| of uncle Jack Smith, of the Third District, Jack
being assisted by our old friend that capital cook,
Coekey George Then comes the grocery Of our
where soldiers may buy what the Commissary can-
not afford, including the ardent provided the ap-
plication be backed by permit from commis-
stoned officer; and truth compels me to state that
the prevalent distaste for too much Of good thing
enures most proftably to the restaurant and gro-
Gerry above mentioned. confess to slight share
of the prevalent weakness; for though have sew
find the practice of that ability hardly agreeable
when practiced as necessity; and though Iex-
pect not only to learn how to eat but to cook that
ancient and inestimable military dish, pork and
beanslI cannot keep away from better thing, if
it's in reach. You don't blame for this, do you
But to my sketch of Camp Moore. Next to
Proctor is row Of soda and refreshment shan
ties, barber.shop or two, photograph saloon,
| some fancy goods stands, and finally, old Aunt
Marys restaurant-ed black Mary, Of Craps street.
She has shanty not much bisger than adry- goods
box, built ON the slope Of the hill and fat on the
slope, in utter defiance Of the laws of gravitation,
with furniture to match; so that when Aunty sets
a beefsteak before you, the gravy drips over one
side of the plate, and your coffee spills over one
side of the cup all things betraying an impetuous
desire to run back into the kitchen and if you be
not careful as TO your posture in eating you Will
| feel sated on the kitchen side and hungry on the
upper. Fact. Aunt Mary sets at once capital
| and an italic breakfast. This is q .tgoak for
| all who are refined enough to understand it.
Back of Proctors is the g Market House IAN
institution made of wagon-load Of lumber, and
Just big enough for John and Peter Forshee to
| yuh tia nm W n
| daily and hand the slices over the fence to the
| hungry customers outside Sometimes the COM
mssaries of the military companies nearly get to
fighting, in their anxiety to secure the choice cuts
| | may state that Peter and John Forshee, John
Daniels, Jack Smith and Frank Proctor are the
| peculiar constellation Of this camp. You may ask
why take SO much pains to mention this. an
swer, because they are good fellows, all well
known and extremely popular here; :. bricks"
one and all, who ought to be known in New Or
leans Whoever says this is a pnf for mere
furlou!gh from pork and beans, tells sa--no such
thing!
| Back of the camp, however, is the prettiest
place of ALL | do not alude to the hospitals,
where some sixty or seventy inyalids are being
well treated or to the neighboring hillock where
the white oaks shade some thirty or forty soldiers
graves, all attesting the effects of oVer-eating.
fatigue, change of diet, and the reckless habit of
plunging when heated, into the cool waters of the
Tangipaho; but to the beautiful ripping Tangi-
pahu itself, not to mention Beaver Creek, which
intervenes and is not ashamed to show itself after
getting into The woods, and whose crystal waters
| lure crowds of soldiers daily to wash themselves
and their clothes Beaver is the necessity, of the
camp: Tangpaho the luxury. took one plunge
into the latter this morning at frat it felt like lce
water. During the warm hours of the day the
stream is filled with military bathers, lurking and
splashing all along beneath its oYerhanging hedges
of yerdure, and wading and swimming against It's
swift current
or course camp life is new thing to me; but
it is not to everybody so need not be prolix in
describing it, The daylight reyeille.-the roll
call-the matutinal cooking and eating-the after
breakfast dril-the midday lounges and rambles-
the dnner-the afternoon parades and battalion
.. drls--tfe lighting of the evening camp fires and
the cooking and eating of supper-the song here,
the fiddle there, and sounds OF life and merriment
every where-these are all very old story, but, of
| course, very new story TO one who experiences
| it for the first time.
Major Butler puts us through battalion drill
! every evening. He is not as perfect as he ought
| to be, and the boys crticise him much; but We
expect him to improve as he goes along. Major
Abe Louria, however is master of the drilling
| art and on that account is much liked all over
camp. ,t.
This morning the Twelfth Regiment left camp for
Union City, in Tennessee. The scene of departure
was sufficiently lively. The boys had been up all
night cooking rations and striking TENTS and left in
state of the highest possible enthusiasm, reg
ment turning cut to cheer them off.
The Twelfth Regiment, under Col Thomas NJ.
Scott is composed Of the following companies: !,
Caldwell Invincibles, Capt. Boyd;
Farmer Guards, Capt Hodge; 1t- RE
Claiborne Rangers, Capt. Leonard;
Jackson Sharp Shooters, Capt. seals; a7.8
Independent Rangers, Capt. Hicks; =
North Louisiana Cadets, Capt. Jordan;
!, Arcadia Invincibles, Capt. Standifer; .H
Farmer Rangers, Capt. Owen;
4. Southern Sentinels, Capt Dixon;
Beauregard Fencibles, Capt. Mccain;
f Numbering in all, S74 men. Our regiment. the
) Eleventh, under Col. Marks, is composed of the
following companies all of whom are on the
ground
Dillon Guards, Capt. Murphy;
| Cannon Guard, Capt. Austin =
Resale Guards, Capt. J. J. Barrow;
Westbrook Guards Capt. Westbrook; ao
| Holmes Light Guards, Capt. McCa nm;
Continental Guards, Capt. Fleming;
Labauve Guards Capt. Ventress;
Pointe Coupee Volunteers, Capt. ". Barrow;
!, Shreveport Rebels, Capt. -; b,
! Catahoula Grays, Capt. A. Mason; "a
Numbering, in all, S44 men, with more yet to
join several of the companies And the following
] other two companies not yet belonging to any
regiment, complete. the list OF companies now al
! Camp Moore
Caldo Fencibles, Capt. E. Mason, and
Morehouse Southerns Capt. S. ). Heard.
= Many of the men of the Twelfth Regiment art
! religious; two of their captains are preachers
tJp to a late hour on Friday night could hear th'
singing of hymns in some of the tentsaand merr,
> ana patriotic songs in others-a singular and i'm