The Camden confederate. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, 1862-03-07


ring the war.
Now, then, under this requsition, do here
by call for men to come forward as volunteers,
individually and separately, or by companies
now formed of not less than sixty aggre-
gate to the principles laid down in the rcsou-
tions of the Council hereunto attached Ten
ders of service will be made in writing to the
Adjutant Generals office in Columbia Those
volunteering as individuals will be formed into
companies as soon as possible, the officers to
he appointed by the Governor and Council.
The Secretary of War, in his requisition,
says, that leach soldier will receive "a bounty
of fifty dollars when the Regiment or Company
is mustered into service, and will he allowed
transportation from his home to the place of
rendezvous" and will also be clothed, supplied
and armed at the expense of the Confederate
States No man liable to duty will be allowed
to enter any other company now in service for
any term until this requisiton for five infantry
regiments be complied with. If these Regi-
ments are not formed by volunteers by the 2Oth
Instant then a conscription will be made to
meet the balance of the rcquisition, upon prin.
ciples which will be announced in general or
ders of detail issued by the Chief OF the Mill
tary Department, in connection with the Adu-
tant and lnspector-Gencral.
| need not make an appeal to the people to
meet this requistion. The country is in dan
ger. We have me: with reverscs. There is
no alternative. We must fight for our homes
and our altars. No people are fit to be free un-
less they arc willing to march through the per-
lis OF severe conflict and battle. This State
was the cradle of the revolution. Let her sons
now hang out their battle flags from every
home. Let us make the State one entrenched
camp, and, if we are to fall let every freeman
find, at least soldiers grave. Let all come
to their country's call. Ii we are brave and
true, there is permanent danger Without
difficulty and peril, independence itself would
not be valued. No people were ever free with
out dangers and struggles. Our true safety is
to meet every danger with more indomitable
courage, and to rise higher with any and every
disaster. In the war of our first revolution,
South Carolina passed through far more dcspe
rate trials. Under the guide of the God of
Battles, we must rise TO our destiny, and from
our very defeats gather renewed strength in
the defence of our tiresides and of our homes
Given under my hand and the seal of the
State at Columbia, this the 5th day of
March, in the year of our Lord one lhom.
us. and eight hundred and sxty-two, and OF
the independence of the State of South
Carolina the cighty-sixth.
f. w. PICKENS.
Resolvcd, by the Governor md CouncH That
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the war by the Confederate Government, no
person not now under orders, subject to mill
tary duty in South Carolina, shall be permitted
to enter Confederate service for less time than
for the war.
Resolved, That the Chief of the Military
Department., together with the Adjutant-Gcnc-
raj, proceed at once to devise Il scheme by
which all the arms bearing white male inhabi-
tants of South Carolina, between the ages of
eighteen and forty-fvc, shall be enrolled, as
well as those now in service for less period
than the war, those not in service, from
which roll the troops raised shall be subject.
by lot, except such volunteers as shall come in
as hereinafter provided.
Resolved, That the individual volunteers, for
infantry service, will be received until the 2Oth
of March instant, who shall be organized into
companies, batta.ions and rcgments-ali Off
GERS to be appointed and assigned by the Gov
ernor and Council, and the troops so organized
shall be mustered Immediately into Confederate
service.
Re,ol0ed, That infantry companies already
formed, In accordance with the Confederate
regulations, volunteering for the war, will be
received with their own company officcrs-the
field officers to be appointed by the Governor
and Council.
Extract from the minutes of March 3d.
F. j. MOSES, JR Secretary
ES- All papers in the State will publish the
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