The Camden confederate. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, 1862-03-14
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDER-
- ate States, through the Secretary of War,
has called on me, as Governor of South Caro-
lima, to furnish five more regiments for and du-
ring the war.
Now, then, under this requisition, do here
by call for men to come forward volunteers,
individually and separately, or by companies
now formed of not less than sixty-eight aggre-
gate to the principles laid down in the rcsolu-
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 soon as possible, the officers to
bc appointed by the Governor and Council.
The Secretary of War; in his requisition,
says, that leach soldier will receive bounty
of fifty dollars when the Regiment or Company
is mustered into service, and will be 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 bc allowed
to enter any other company now in service for
any term, less than the war, until
this requsiton for five infantry regi.
ments be complied with. If these Reg
mcnts arc not formed 10y volunteers 10y the Goth
instant, then comscription will be made to
meet the balance of the rcquisitiom, upon prn.
ciples which will be announced in general or
ders of detail issued by the Chief of the Mill
tary Department, i'll connection with the Adju-
tant and lnspector-General.
| need not make al appeal to the people to
meet this requsition. The country is in dam
ger. We have me: with rcvcrscS. There is
no alternative. We must fight for our homes
and our altars. No people arc fit to be free UNI
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 cntrenched
camp, and, if we are to fall let every freeman
fnd at least, soldiers grave. Let all come
to their country's call. Ii we are brave and
true, there is no 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
courage, and to rise higher with any and every
disaster. In the war of our first revolution,
South Carolina passed through far more dcspc
Battles, we must rise to our destiny, and from
our very defeats gather renewed strength in
the defence of our tircsdcs and of our homes.
Given under my hand and the seal of tie
State at Columbia, this the 5th day Of
March, in the year of our Lord one thou .
LIS. land eight hundred and sixty-two, and OF
the independence of the State of South
Carolina the cghty-sxth.
+. W. PICKENS.
Resolved, by the Governor md CouncH, That
in view Of the great rcqulSition for troops for
the war 10y 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 IL less time than
for the war.
Resolved, That the Chief of the Military
Department. together with the Adjutant-Gene-
raj, proceed at once to devise scheme by
which all the arms bearing white male inhabi-
tants of South Carolina, between the ages of
eighteen and forty-ivc, shall be enrolled, rs
well rs those now in service for less period
than the war; as those not in service, from
which roll the troops raised shall be subject.
by lot, except such volunteers as Shall come III
as hereinafter provided.
Resolved, That the individual volunteers. fol
infantry service, will bc received until the 20t
of March instant, who shall be organized into
companies, batta.icns and regiments ali Off
GERS to be appointed and assigned 10y the tiov-
ernor and Council and the troops organized
shall be mustered immediately into Confederate
service.
Re.olved, That infantry companies alrcaGy
formed, i'm accordance with the Confederate
regulations, volunteering for the war, will be
rono;yoI with their own cOmOanY OflicorS-th,