Washington telegraph., 1862-02-12
PROCLAMATION 4
BY THE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE RF
ARKANSAS. y
EXECUTIVE OFr1cE, |
1a,k Rock, Ark., Jan. 81, 1862. !

M I'D in command of the Transmits
w n;strict. comprising THAT part of the
sssPP .i If Louisiana North of Red River, the
o. 81 Territory west of Arkansas, the state
lrarLansas and certain portions of Missouri,
stc ETC.. has made requlslton upon the au-
'tor;ties of Arkansas for ten regiments of IN
sutry and four companies OF artliiery' ior
,orvice in the Confederate States Army.
Now. therefore, |, Henry Nj. Rector, as Gov
.rnor of the State of Arkansas ana e4-ohlcio
President of the Military Board OF said state,
do hereby order and direct that one nuhureu
.omnanies of infantry and four of artillery. be
Oman;zed with dispatch, from those persons in
he State who by law are subject to military
- and by the 9th of March next rel ort
themselves for duty to Gen. Van Dorm at PO-
.abontas. Arkansas, except two regiments OF
;nfantry. which will report to Gen. Pike for
,.rvice oil the western, frontier Each company
% consist of one Captain, one lst Lieutenant,
tuo d Lieutenants, five Sargeants. four Cor
erals two Musicians, and not less than sixty
fo,,r nor more than one~hundred and four pri
ratas Companies arming themselves will be
rereiyed for twelve months; those unarmej for
and during the war, or three years. Company
elections may be held by any commissioned
State officer, civil or military, and returns made
20 me for commissions. The men will be sworn
into service by Confederate officers after organ
;,atiou. Eheresoever one may be found. Sub
sstence will be supplied by the Confederate
Government 80 soon as mpany organization
is completed, the Captain selecting one of the
Lieutenants to purchase subsistence and forage,
who will issue certificates of purchase approved
BY the Captain, to be paid by the proper officer
Of the Confederate Government at head
quarters.
Two wagons and teams -four horse six
mulel will be hired to transport the baggage,
&C., for each company to Pocahontas, with the
privilege of purchasing them at fair valuation.
Regiments will be formed at POcahontas, ten
companies each, and elections held for general
officers, who will be commissioned by the State.
Each soldier is entitled to $ll per month pay.
one blanket and fifty dollars year for clothing
and if be volunteers for the war, to fifty dollars
bounty, which / am assured will be paid
promptly by the Confederate States. 1t is de-
sirabe that each man bring with him one or
more blankets if possible; when they cannot be
thus procured, they will be supplied to those
received into service by the Confederate States.
Companies as soon organized will report to
me, sending muster roll showing the requisite
number of men, that L may report them 20 the
Confederate Quartermaster, who will supply
them with tents, camp equipage, &c. &c.
~ the request of the General IN command,
i have thus endeavored to be explicit in detail
as we'll rs to those things which fall within the
range OF State authority, as those which be-
long to the Confederate Government the better
to facilitate the prompt and patriotic response
which We hope to see made by the people of
Arkansas to this demand upon their yalor and
patriotism.
From the best 4 IA in posses ion of the State
authorities, it is estimated that Arkansas has
now twenty-five thousand men in the COnfed-
crate army, which is equal to thirty-seven per
cent of her population fit for or subject to
military duty; the eight thousand five hundred
called Ter maklng thirty thousa..d five hun ired
out If the sixty, being Que half, ftt} Pr
cen1 of her entire military force.
Ii is undeniab!y true that the number Of men
furnished by certain sections of the state is
grossly inadequate to the amount uf population,
and to the capacity and bouudcn uuty uf those
sections to turn out soldiers tor the deiv nee
and honor of the government, whilst from other
counties anu localities almost the entire male
population have sprang with alacrity to the
hrst call of their cocn;ry. The tolls and
hariships well as tile blessings of 4 united
people should be bourne and dispensed alike
to all.
In view of these facts, then, it is esteemed
essentially proper, that those counties not
or proportion of troops, bo now required as
near as may be to furnish with those tncy have
already in service one alf or fifty per cent. o
their PEOPLE subject to military duty. This is
criterion nv which each county in the Stat,
may know how much under this call it is re
9uIred TO do to save its people Lhe unpleasant
reflection of having been dratteI i'll sea vice TO
the defence of their own homes
The four following military divisions have
been permanently organized, to wit:
The counties of Benton, Crawford, Carroll
Yell, Franklin, Scott, Madison. Johnson, Pope
Sebastian, Searcy, Newton, Van Buren,, Ma
rion, Conway. Washington and Perry compos
the First Division.
Saline, Dallas, Hot Spring, Calhoun, Mont
gomery, Uuachita, Polk, Union, Sewer, Pike
Columbia, Lafayette, Hampstead and Clark
cOmposl the Second Division.
Pulaski, Jefferson, Prairie, Bradley. Drew
Monroe, Phillips, Desha, Arkansas, Chicot anC
Ashley compose the Third Division.
White, jackson, ST. Francis, independence
Critic Aden, lizard, Mississippi, Fulton, Poinsett
Lawrence, Craighead, Randolph and Green
compose the Fourth Division.
and it is ordered that the counties composing
the First Division organize into companies and
report as above directed, three thousand five
hundred men by the 9th of March next.
That the counties composing the Second
Division organize and report by the same period
two thousand men.
That the counties composing the Third Divis-
ton, organize and report by the same time 6f-
leen hundred men.
And that those counties composing the Fourth
Division, report likewise fifteen hundred men.
All or either of which Divisions failing to
report the number of men respectively assigned
to them by the said 5th of March. will be sub
ject to draft, by counties, until their due
proportion according to population is furnished
to I'LL the requisition made upon the State by
the General in command.
The power to levy such draft being in the
Military Board, by the following clause in an
ordinance passed by the State Conven ton,
entitled IAN ordinance for the organization
OF an efficient military corps for active service,
etc, etc.
SEC. 10. "All persons to be hereafter enlisted
OF drafted shall be her reafter enlisted or drafted
lor period to be hereafter designated by the
Military Board.''
SIC. III. I'm case it shall be necessary to
make a draft from the militia to obtain the re-
4ulleu number for service, under this ordinance
OF any other ordinance which has been or may
hereafter De adopted, the Military Board, here
80 created shall have the power to prescribe
- ," 's, q, ana mode in Which said draft shall
rsnnt ~ue' zen. Van Dorm in his requisition
riaa 80 desire these troops for active ser
a. soon as they can be organized and put
- ~e neid' WA them 1 hope to guard the State
DM4"SGi-preUent ~ tnpdsion, and with the CO.