The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-12-02


This battalion should follow the advance
guard, should repair roads and double them if
possible so that the columns will not be de-
layed after reaching bad places. Also army
commanders should study the habit of giving
the artillery and wagons the road, and march
ing their troops on one side; and also instruct
their troops to assis. wagons at steep hills, or
bad crossings of streams.
TX. Captain o. M. Poe, Chief Engineer, will
assign to each wing of the army poutoon
train, fully equipped and organized, and the
commanders thereof will see to its being
properly protected at all times
BY order of Maj. Gen. w. T. SHERMAN.
l.. 81, DAYTON, Aid de Camp.
Gen. Siocum's Order to his Win. of
the Army.
CIRCULAR.
HEADQUARTERS TWENTIETH CoRrsl
ATLANTA, Ca, Nov. Z, 1854.
When the troops leave camp on the march
about to commence they will carry in haver-
sack two days rations salt meat, two davs'
hard bread, ten days coffee and SALT and five
days sugar. Each infantry soldier will carry
sixty rounds of ammunition on his person.
Every effort should be made by officers and
men to save rations and ammunition not q
round of ammunition should be lost or unne-
eessarly expended. 1t is expected that the
command will be supplied with subsistence
and forage mainly from the country. All forags
ing will be done by parties detailed for the pur-
pose by brigade commanders, under such rules
as may be prescribed by brigade and division
commanders. Pi!lagiDg, marauding and every
act of cruelty or abuse Of citizens will be Sc
verely punished. Each brigade commander
will have strong rear guard on every march,
and will order the arrest of all stragglers The
danger OF struggling on this march should be
impressed upon the mind of every officer and
man of the command. Not only the reputa-
ton of the corps, but the personal safety of
every man will be dependent in great meas
ure, upon the rigid enforcement of discipline
and the care taken of the rations and ammuni-
ton. BY command of
Major Gen. sLoCuM.
H. W. PERKINS, a. A. G.
FEARS OF THE DAVIS GOVERNMENT THAT THE
GRORGIANs WILL NOT RESIST sHERNAN's
ADVANCE.
From the Rirhn,nnh Sentinel Nov 2i
A principal cause of uneasiness with
many citizens in this portion of the Con-
federacy, in connection with the campaign
of the enemy in Georgia and the parts ad-
jacent, is the apprehension that the people
there will not exhibit spirit and devotion
suitable to the occasion. It is matter of
equal pain and surprise to Virginiaus when
told, as they sometimes are, that their con-
tederates in some quarters do not display
the self-sacritice and courage demanded by
the necessity that is upon lis all. In the
name of all that is manly and just and
honorable this should not be the case
Situated on the immediate border, Vir-
ginia we'll knew that in the event of war,
the heaviest of the shock would fall upon
her. Her more Southern sisters, more
sensitive to the common wrongs and COM
mon dangers, or feeling themselves less ex-
posed, were quicker than she to dissolve
the union with the States of the North.
Virginia exerted herself to restore the
peace, and to establish it on safe and Sc
cure foundations. She pursued her efforts
up to the very hour when war Was de-
clared against the States that had seeded.
In that supreme moment she took instant
position with her Southern sisters and mar
shalled for the fight. These Southern sis
ters have not forgotten the joy they felt at
the accession of Virginia. 1t was cele-
brated with bonfires AMI artillery and song
and universal gladness.
What Virginia expected soon came to
pass. Here was the first soil to be invad-
ed, here the first city to be seized. How
well she has borne herself in the cam-
paigns that have followed, it is for US to
say. We will do no more than name her
Lees, her Jacksons, her Johnstons, her
Ewells, her Stewards, her Ashbys. We
may refer, however, to what she has suf-
fered. Look at her desOlated districts
once her productive tidewater, her fertile
Piedmont, her beautiful valley, but now all
trodden under the hoof of invasion, and
trampled in the struggles Of great armies.
Look at her people, how many are plum
dered, how many exile. Look at the
prices of provisions, made enormous by
the immediate presence of the hostilities.
Look at the continual and extreme de-
mands upon her reserves and aged men
for military service. Look at the calls for
her slaves, the impressments of her sup
plies, the interruption, almost prostrati0n
of her business of all kinds, caused by the
exigencies of the service. All this is her
constant experience. And yet has any
one ever heard Virginia complain? Does
any one see her wavers Are not her peo-
pie cheerful and hopeful, and resolute
amid it all? Have her Governors ever
sought difficulties with the Confederate
agent? Has her Legislature ever placed
any distractions in the way of the public
defence? Has she sent solitary faction
ist, or croaker, or ''peace man." so called,
to Congress? Is she not as brave, and
bold, and defiant this day as when the
war began? Is she not mere so? To ask
these questions is to answer them and we
shall be excused the filial joy which thrills
us as we contemplate such record Amid
all her sufferings and desolations, Virginia
is more glorious than she ever was before.
Notwithstanding her ravaged fields and
burnt homsteads, she was never so rich as