True Democrat., 1862-12-17
PROCLAMATION.

UACTcQS, The matter Ot proylslonS IS q great expense to the United States of America, be- sides offering inducements for unexpected raids on the part of the furnishing foeman; the Mack erel brigade IS hereby directed to live entirely upon the Southern Confederacy, eating him alive wherever found, and partakng ofno other food
 The brigade will not be permitted to take any clothing with it on the march, being required henceforth to dress exclusively in the habill- ments of captured Confederates.
 We have done with rerograde movements. No more lines of. retreat will oe kept open, and henceforth the Mackerel brigade is to make nothing but great captures.
 By order of the
 GENERAL or THE NAcEEREL DEEGSDa.
 Green Seal.
 This able document, my boy pleased nc greatly as an evidence that the war had ia> deed commenced to earnest; aud though at that moment, ] beheld some halt dozen Conietlar> cies ransacking the tent where the General kept his mortgages his bank account, and other government property l felt that oQf foes were to be summarily dealt with at last.
 An orderly having finally given notice to the ConfederacieS rummaGing within our lines to get to their proper places, Tn order that the battle might begin, the Anatomical Cavalry under Captain Samyule Sa-mith, made a head long charge upon body of foes who were destroying bridge near the middle of the field and succeeded in obliging them to remaInthere This brilliant movement was the sltnal tor general engagement, and a regiment of Cen federacies at oiice advanced within our lines and inquired the way to Washington.
 Having given them the desired information, and allowed a number of other similar reg
 taI- ba4v ha N!aCk kpIn and the capital, the general gave orders for the Comic Section and the Orange county HoWitz- CTS to fall cautiously back in order that the re- maining Confeierates might get between us and Richmond.
 You will percieve by this movement, my boy we cut the enemy's forces completely in two, thus compelling him to attack Us either ln. the front or n the rear, giving him no choice of any other operations save flank movements. Our plans being thus perfected, Captain Will liam Brown, with company 3, regiment 6, was ordered to charge into a wood near at hand, with a view to induce some recenuy~arrived reserve Confederaces to take poSitioh in our center, while still others would be likely to Hank us on the right and left.
 You may ayremember, my boy, that 1t has bere- tofore been our misfortune to fight on the cir conference of circle, while the Confectionery 
 was intended to produce result rtce csr'sa.
 It was . great success my boy-a greet sue cess; and our troops presently fonnd themselves inside the most complete circle on record. William Brown not nlycharged into the wood, -but staid there, and when one Of the Orange County Howtzers was discharged with great precision at reporter who was caught. sneak ing into onr lines, the report was heard by the Venerable Gammon at Washington, causing that reverend man to telegraph toall the papers that no one need feel alarmed, as he was pers fectly safe and that our victory was veryscon1- plete. ;, 1,1. GA mon had incurred, l can't say my boy; nor what he knew about the battle but his disf hatch caused renewed confidence all over the country, and was a great comfort to his friends
 Having got the Confederates just where he wanted them the general ofthe Mackerel brfgade now dispatched ten veterans under Sergeant O'pake to attack few hundred foes who haq intrenched themselves in an unseemly manner among our wagons. The Mackerels were we received as prisoners of war, and paroled on the spot: proceeding which So greatly pleased the idolized general, that he -ohce issoea this second,
 PR0CIANAT1oN.
 Itmust be understood that, n his recent proc lamaton directing the Mackerel brigade 70 dlne exclusively upon Southern Confedearcies, the General commanding did not intend that such dining should take place without the free con- sent of the aforesaid Confederacies.
 It must not be understood that the order con-
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