Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-08-19
10, at once, to supply the army and stop
the-increase.of of Confederate money. f'....
. Your-obedient servant,
j. L. PUGH.
How to:Fill the Ranks.

This is at present the great desideratum.
There is an. emergency upon the country
which must be met, and that promptly, OF
VT are a subjugated and ruined people
Our ranks mustbe flledup in order to meet
successfully, ithe-insading and devastating
hordes of;tbes North. Among other means
Of accomplishing this, writer iu the At
lauta Confederacy suggests:
1. That all the white wagoners who are
able to bear armseb put in the ranks, and
theirzp supplied, with old men and ne.
groes-. l saw many>a train Of. Yunkee wag.
ons pass my window last fall, and I never
saw white wagner. There are 10000
white men ableto bear arms detailed to
drive wagons in our army. How are we to
supply their places? ? Detail first the free
negro men for this purpose, aud hire, OF
impress able bodied slaves to supply their
places. We take our white men nolens 90.
lens! We take the only support the poor
wife or widow has Then let US also take
one out of five negro men belonging to
planters and others.
2. Let all the able bodied clerks and as.
sistants in the quartermaster and commissa.
ry departments be sent to the field. How
many men are in these departments in At.
lanta, Macon, Augusta aud Savannah AL.
most regiment. 1t is time for quarter
masters to cease to protect their Einsmen,
friends and favorites.
3. Let all the able bodied nurses in the
hospitals be sent to their ranks, and their
places supplied with women and men unfit
for field duty.
Let all details be revoked, and the men
sent to the camps, unless it is impossible to
supply heir-places.:
These are practicable suggestions, and no
time should be losti in putting them 10 force.
An effort was made twelve months ago by
Gen. Price, in Mississippi, to relieve his
teamsters by negroes, in order that they
might be put into tho ranks, but,strauge to
say, slave owners refused to hire.their ne
groes for this purpose, and uow these ne
groes -e serving the Yankees free of charge.
The owners hare not only lost their services
but the slaves themselves, whereas, if they
had hired them to the army for teamsters,
and to do fatigue duty, the negroes would
now be in. safe keeping aud. yielding sup
port to their owners. The same will be the
caseiu Georgia and elsewhere, if the most
vigorous efforts are net taken to. hold the
Yankeesat bay. The negroes can be made
Of imm9hse service to the army, and;if their
owners Rilfnot hire them, the Government
should not hesitate. fora moment to press
them for duty. The crops are now laid BY
and there is but little cotton to pick this
season.. and large proportion of'the slave
population will remain at home comparative.
ly idle until another planting season shall
roll round.
Let the slave owners think we'll and Sc.
riously upon this subject, and We do not
think they can hesitate for a moment as to
what course to pursue, provided the Gov
ernment shall call op them for their negroes.
They have it in their power thus to render
great good to their country, and, by so do.
ing, will probably save it from being over
run by the ruthless invader, aud themselves
from robbery and ruin.