davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Soldiers' journal. (Rendezvous of Distribution, Va.) 1864-1865, 1864-07-20
CAMP sTATIoNERY, NEWS

CAMP sTATIoNERY, NEWS AND Elk
IMPRESS DEPOT.-At this establishment soldiers
will be supplied with all kinds of News and Literary
Journals Stationery etc. on as reasonable terms rs
it is Adams Express Office, through which all boxes
packages and parcels including money. can be for
CITY depots. Room in the same building with the
Camp Receiving and Post Offices. -
G.. r. CRAWFORD,
Stationer and Agent Adams Express 90
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1864-07-02
ENROLLING OFFICE,
Parish of St. Landry,
OPELoUsAs, June 90. 1856.

OPELoUSAS, June ~, 1864.
HHSHE following information Of Sec. 1st, Act
A- of Congress, approved 18th Feb. 1864, is
published for those whom it may concern:
/. That from and after the passage of this Act,
all white men, residents of the Confederate
States, between the ages of IL and so shall be
in the service Of the Confederate States during
the war.
This is to notify all men in the Parish of ST.
Landry, subject to the operation of the law to
report without delay to this office, for enrolment
Those between the ages of IL and Is, As and So
who failed to attach themselves to companies Of
the Reserve Corps prior to the LIST of July, will
be sent to the field as other conscripts.
It is hoped that all will comply promptly with
the law. otherwise the Commanding General
directs they be sought after and be punished
with the utmost severity wherever they may be
found. JNO. M. TAYLOR
Lieut.. and Confederate Enrolling Officer
for the Parish Of 81. Landry.
July 9, 1S64-5-tf
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1864-07-02
SALE OF STATE BONDS
EXECUTIVE OFFICE. J
SHREVEPORT. February 23l 1864

SHREVEPORT. February 23d, 1864.
B y accordance with the provisions of an H.,
H. of the General Assembly of the State d
Louisiana, entitled An Act "To authorize ths
sale of Bonds tol the relief of the Treasury. and
final liquidation of the principal and ilercss
thereof" approved February 8, 1864
Sealed proposals will be received at nv Office.
in the city of Shreveport. until he first of srp
tembcr next for the sale or exchange of STATE
Bonds. having not less than twenty nor mere
than fifty years to run from their dates, and 10
be issued in amounts of not less than two hun.
dred nor more than one Thousand dollars eagt
at the discretion Of the Governor, with six ri
cent. per ann,m, payable semi-annuay tths
Office of the State Treasurer.
These Bonds will he sold for the benefit sf.bs
State. or exchanged for any of tile Confederae
or State Treasury notes.
The General Assembly in authorizing the ssa
or exchange of these Bonds, has provided fortEs
payment of the current int rest semi-annuaEy
and the redemption of the bonds at maturity, By
the creation Of an ample sinking fund
On the first Monday of every month the sealed
bids received, will be opened and the Bonds
awarded to the highest bidder. at the discretion
OF the Governor. II. W. ALLEN,
Governor of the State Of Louisiana
March 5, 1S6A.-4S-3m.
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1864-07-02
Hd. Qrs. Bureau of Conscription,
TRANSMITS. DEPARTMENT,
Marshall Terms. Man 3Ofk 1864,

GENERAL ORDERS No. ii.
II The following schedule of prices is pub
lished for the benefit of all concerned:
Ii. All owners of Grist and Saw Mills, who
have been or may hereafter be detailed as Millers.
or who may have conscript detailed as miller
or engineer in said mills, shall be required to
make an affidavit before some person authorized
to administer oaths, that during the continuance
of said detail, they will not charge or take more
than one eighth as toll for grain ground in such
mill, and that they will sell all the surplus of the
toll received at said mill (over support for their
families) to the Government, soldiers families,
and INDECENT persons, at the prices fixed by the
Commissioners of the several States of this De-
partment and the owners of saw mills will sell
their lumber at $500 per handred feet
III. Conscripts detailed as tanners, or tanners
who may have any conscript detailed to work tor
them, shall be required to make an affidavit. as
the continuance of their detail, they will sell all
their leather at the prices fixed by the Commits
sioners of the several States of this Department
w. Conscripts detailed for the benefit of the
public as Shoemakers and Blacksmiths, shall be
required to make a similar affidavit. that during
the continuance of their details they will not
charge more than at the rate of seven dollars per
day for their labor, where the material is furnish
ed them, and where the party detailed furnishes
the material, the actual COST OF the same snail De
added to the price of their labor per day.
V. Conscripts detailed as Physicians shall
make an affidavit that during the continuance of
their details, they will not charge the families of
officers and soldiers absent in the army, more
than the customary rates before the war in said
locality, and if their charges to others are extor-
tionate, their details will be revoked.
vi. Conscripts detailed as Stockraiseis or own
ers who may have conscript detailed to look
after their stock, shall make similar affidavit;
during their detail they will SELL each year, their
surplus stock, wool, &c, at prices fixed by the
Commissioners Of the several States of this De-
partment.
VII. Conscripts detailed to make looms and
spinning-wheels shall make similar affidavit,
that during the continuance of their details they
will not charge exceeding Eve dollars per day for
their labor where the material is furnished them
and where they furnish the material, the cost of
the same shall be added to the price Of their labor
VIII. Any person evadng, or attempting au
evasion of the foregoing orders. his detail shall be
revoked. and he be placed in the army
TX All Conscript officers Of this Department
are charged with the rigid enforcement of these
orders. By command of
Brgadier General GREER.
A. PORE, Capt. & A A. Gen. fully 2-2t.
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1864-07-02
$l00 Reward in Bank Notes.

II OsT on the 10th June, between Opelousas
IL a and st. Martinsville. on the Tsche road. n
small back leather POCKET Book, containing a
Treasury Certificate signed by H. j. G. Battle,
Depositary, dated 26th May, 1864 at Shreye.
port, in favor of A. or Addison Pumphry, for
Five Hundred Dollars, about Four hundred and
fifteen dollars in bills of the New Orleans Banks.
three dollars in New Orleans bills. twenty-five
dollars In gold three hundred and fifty dollars in
e. s. Treasury Notes. ninety dollars in interest
Coupons of g. S. Bonds, and some other papers
valuable to the owner
The above reward viii be paid for the delivery
of the same to Mr.. p L. Hebrard, ia Ouelousas.
or Mr. William Greig, in ST. Martinsvilie.
J. TODD.
sIanKlln, La, July 2, 1864. 5-2t.
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1864-07-02
g O59 SALE,

l. tract of WOOD LAND on the B.v,n
Bnuf, in the Parish of St. Landry, about ten
miles from Washington, containing about fan,
hundred arpents at fifty dollars an arpent,
2. A tract of WOOD LAND in the Parish =,
St. Landry, about fifteen miles from OpeIons,
in the rear of the plantation of Francois Robin
on the Bayou Teche, containing about thrss
hundred arpents, at fifty dollars an arpent.
3. A tract of PRAIRIE LAND. abont tr,
miles Northwest of Opelousas, containing ahon,
two hundred arpents, at twenty-five dollars On
arpent.
4. A tract of Prairie Land, about seven mile,
South of Opelousas, containing about two Ian.
dred arpents, at twenty-five dollars an arpent.
5. A tract of Prairie and Wood Land abau.
sixteen miles West of Opelousas, containing two
hundred and forty arpents. at ten dollars an m n.
pent. HENRY L. GARLAND
July 9 1SSj-5-Dt
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1864-07-02
HEAD QUARTERS,
Trans-Missisgppi Department, !

Shreveport, La, May SUs 1CO4. }
GENERAL ORDERS No. 25.
IT The following Act of Congress is published
l.. for the information of the army III this De-
partment:
OF THE ARMY"
The Congress of the Confederate States OF
America do enact, That the President be and he
is hereby authorized, upon the recommendation
of any General commanding Department or an
army, to discharge from service any oficerof
the Confederate States Army or of the ProFl-
sional Army of the Confederate States, who has
no command and cannot be assigned to any ap-
propriate duty, or who is incompetent or inefi-
cient, or who may be absent from his command
or duty without leave: Prorided, That any Off
Ger who may be discharged for incompetency,
ineficiency or absence from his command witil-
out leave, shall be entitled to trial before an
examining Board, under existing laws, il he de-
mands it of the Commanding General within
thirty days: 'ProUided further, That it shall not
extend to any officer who is absent on account of
captivity" (Approved February H.. 1861
III. In pursuance of the above Act of Con-
gress, all officers, whether of the Regular or
Provisional Army in this Department, who are
absent from their commands without authority,
will be dropped from the Rolls of the Army on
the 30th day of June, 1864
Ill. All ofl1cers IN this department VINO nave
been assigned to duty away from their COM
mands, whether by order from the Secretary of
War, Department or District Commanders, will
report, by letter, to Department Head Quarters
their address and the duty upon which they are
engaged.
IV. All returns required by the Army Regu.
lations to be made to the Adjutant and Inspector
General, Richmond, Va, will in future be for
warded to these Headquarters.
V. Enrolling officers are authorized to call out
the Reserve Corps of their respective counties Or
parishes, whenever their assistance is required in
arresting deserters, or for arresing and quelling
bands of Marauders
VI Officers engaged in the collection of the
Tax in Kind, and officers drawing the same for
troops, will conform strictly to the instructions of
the War Department, the Quartermaster-G General
and of the Controlling Quartermasters.
By command of
Cen E. KIRBY SMITH.
S. S. ANDERSON, Asst Adj't Gen.
July 2-5-4t
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1864-07-02
OFFICE COMMISSIONER OF CLAIMS, |

OFFICE COMMISSIONER OF CLAIMS,
Shreveport, La, April 13, 1864.
II HAVING been appointed by the Governors
IL Commits ioner for the State of Louisiana,
to collect all claims due the citizens of this State,
from the Confederate States, for the hire and loss
of negroes and for property of all kinds whaso,
ever. impressed by the G. S. authority.
All persons having such claims whether regu.
lar or irregular, will forward them immediately
to this office for collection, and the same will re-
eeive prompt attention free of charge, and the
money remitted to them or held subject to Their
order. ANDREW r. HYNES,
Commissioner of Claims, State of Louisiana,
- June II, 1S64-2-Im.
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1864-07-02
Hd. Qrs. Bureau of Conscription,
TRANSMITS. DEPARTMENT,
Marshall, Teras. June lst, 1864

Marshall, Teras, June lst, 1864.
GENERAL ORDERS No. l2
4 Persons who hold the appointment of for
H eign nations as Consuls in this Department,
and who under the late act of Congress are liable
to conscripton, will not be enrolled so long as
they hold such appointments.
| ii. Persons seeking exemption on the ground
that they are citizens of Maryland, are required
10 make their applications to this office. setting
forth fully the facts of their cases. and submit.
ting clear proof of their citizenship Residence
under the late law being the test of liability to
military service, each case will be determined on
its own merits and must be accompanied with
facts other than mere citizenship emitting the
applicant to exemption, otherwise exemption
will be denied.
III. So much Of Paragraph II, Special Order
NO. 10. current series, from this Bureau, as re-
quires the Reserve Corps in Texas to form vol
untary organizations or enroll themselves within
thirty days from 10th ultimo, and SO much of
9enersl Order No. 10, current series, from this
Bureau, as requires such organization or enroll
ment in the States of Louisiana and Arkansas by
the 10th instant, are hereby revoked and the
SAID organization or enrolment in this Depart
ment is extended until the lst of July next.
~. So much of clause 8, Par iii, General
order No. y, current series, from this Bureau, as
requires certain officers to relieve all ahlr-bodied
men in their employ within sixty days from 9th
of April last, is hereby revoked, and such OFF
GERS are allowed until the 18th of July to relieve
from duty such employees
Y. Every person volunteering or reporting for
enrolment, or who have volunteered or been en-
rolled, in the Reserve Corps, will be required to
make affidavit that he was over As years old on
the 10th Of July last. and officers applying for
the detali OF members of that corps, must dis
tinctly certify that they were over the said ace
on the 10th Of July. Enrolling Officers are sn.
joined to exercise the utmost vigilance to prevent
evasion Of this order, and to report promptly all
cases of its violation.
BY command of
Orig. Gen. GREER.
w STEDMAN, A. A. Gen. [July 2.-2t.
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1864-07-02

a-A newly married couple at Studley. Eng
land, lately decided to have grandma1nma's s arm.
chair resulted in her absence, and sent it away
for the purpose. The old lady returning, aston
ished then by saying that there were e4OO among
the horse hair. The chair was sent for and the
cash recovered. Further inquiries realized the
fact that an old petticoat which had been consi
gned to the rag bag contained number of SOW
ings stitched into the wastband.
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1864-07-02

ORsTRUcTIoNs AT CHARLESTON AND SAvAN-
EAH.-The New-York Tribune publishes state
ment from Confederate prisoner who has taken
the oath of allegiance. AS to the obstructons
in Charleston and Savannah harbors he says:
There are thirty-two torpedoes laid on a direct
line in the Charleston river, from FortsJohnson
to Mount Pleasant, the entire width of the har-
bor. They consist of common beer barrels
tarred in and outside, and fastened together by
cable at the bottom. Some of them contain be-
tween 600 and 700 pounds of powder. The Ian
yards which are attached to the centre of these
viSainous instruments are screwed into the end
of each barrel, and SO arranged near the surface
that they will explode the torpedo with fifteen
pounds pressure from anything coming in con-
tact with them.
In regard 10 the distractions in Savannah
river. from .Thunderbolt battery to Warsaw
sound, the Confederates have laid down liyeoak
logs and timber, from Skiddeway river to the
marsh opposite. At place called "The Sisters"
three little islands (below Warmers Rocks) in
the middle of the river, the Confederates have
sunk thirty-two torpedoes, extending from Will
mington Island to 'The Sisters" and thence to
Skiddeway battery. They are little larger than
a lager-beer barrel, and charged with powder and
tulminante, and will explode on slight pressure.
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1864-07-02
THE oPELoUsAs COURIER.


Published on Saturday By Joel n. Sandoz
CONDITIONS:
Subscription, for six months, payable in 90.
vance, TWENTY dollars if paid at the end OF tho
six months, twenty-five dollars. A subscriber
wishing to discontinue must give a ,orittcn notN;
to that effect, and settle up all arrearages. Z,
Advertisements will be inserted at fifty cents
per line for each publication. A liberal discount
will be made for long standing advertisements
All the advertisements will be inserted ~
french and english until, the editor shall judge
convenient to discontinue the publication.
Twenty-Five dollars in advance will invariaply
be required for the announcement of CANDID
ates for Office.
No advertisements or subscription will 90
stopped until all arrearages are paid, unisss
at the option of the publisher.
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1864-07-02

PROMOTION OF GEN. TAYLoR.-The Rich
mond JVhig of May 81 is cited as authority for
the statement that, at the instance of the Gen
eral commanding the Trans Mississippi Depart
ment Gen. Richard Taylor has had conferred on
him the rank and the title of Lieutenant Gen
eral.
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1864-07-02

D Yellow fever has commenced its work in
New Orleans Although the papers do not say
much, it is evident that an epidemic is at hand
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1864-07-02

@We would call special attention to the mil.
itary orders published in our present number
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1864-07-02
OPELoUSA AS:
SATURDAY, ::::: JULY 2, 1864.

DWe have been refusing subscribers Of late
on account of the exhorbitant prices of paper,
&c, We will now accept subscribers for six
months only. See our conditions.
Old subscribers who have paid cash in ad-
vance, will be served at the old prices. Those
who would not wish to continue upon the new
conditions are earnestly requested to let us know
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1864-07-02

DWe have received copy Of an Extra
Z from the N. 0. Era of the Oath June. The news
that it contains are far from being favorable to
the federals, though the Era fatters itself of the
prospects.
We see that Sherman has been bQfled in bis
marches in Georgia. His loss in Georgia is esti-
mated at 5000 or 10000 in wounded alone. The
position of Johnston, a few miles above Atlanta,
is impregnable.
The Paris correspondent of the London Times
learns that the French Government sent two
delegates to America, one civil, the other mill
tary, to ascertain and report upon the real pros
poets of the belligerents. They say that over
tures had been made by France to the English
Government, with view to devise means of
putting stop to the frightful carnage. ~
Grant will now try his hand at Richmond By
trying it on the South or Petersburg side.
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1864-07-02

The Mail.-A weekly mail has been re es-
tablished between Shreveport and Franklin. 1t
arrives from above on Monday, passes down and
returns from below on Friday
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1864-07-02
BOARD OF POLICE.
TN- aS Sn~o1o,.coe

BOARD OF POLICE.
Town of opelousas.
Clerks Office, June l6, 1864.
L is hereby certified that on the day of Tho
l. date hereof, the Board of Police of the Town
of Opelousas passed the following resolution:
Resolved, That ne current Confederate money
shall be received in Market. for beef retailed by
the Town, except Five Dollar Notes and Notes
of smaller denomination"
JOS. D. RICHARD,
June 25th, 1864. Clerk.
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1864-07-02

OLD TYPE METAL,
Suitable for making shot, for sale at this Office.
Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-08-01
ESTABLISHED, 1881

surround thellegions of Lee, as Grant did
Pemberton; provided, of course, that the
Danville road shares the fate that the
Weldon road probably will If Gen.
Lee -chooses-to stop the game by fight,
ne has to pat his finger on the skipper y
Grant and stop his hea-hke Rankings /;
aud having found him and stopped him
for a hght, win have to charge the hills
Grant viii occupy and the trenches
Grant will dig We lose RichmeHd if
We hold Weldon and DanVille Railroads
We lose the railroads if We. save Rich
mohd, Tor We, attack Grant in. his
mighty trenches if we try to save both.
Il is true that ten. Beaureg0ard could
still keep south of Grant. .and prevent
raids inte South Carolina, but could not
keep him from stopping the roads south,
unless he has enough men TO attack
Grant in reserve and place him between
two fires We hope Grant thinks be has.
This is game with no possible hinder
ance, perfectly plan to even such unmil-
itarF comprehension as our own, and
We respectfully submit that there is no
fun in it,
Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-08-01
How our Boys In Georgia Celebrated
the Fourth.

. A Georgia correspondent tells the fol-
lowing
About o'clock in the afternoon of
the 4th of July the batteries commenced
firing national s&late, but every shot
was at the rebels. Hardly had the echo
Of the thirty fourth gun died away ere
the assalling columns we're springing
forward with load cheers General Ful.
Ter with the 27th and 29th Ohio, charged
IN line of battle. Colonel Mersy, With
the 9th Illinois, charged in double line
OF skirmishers The rebel works ia their
front were equally strong and charges
were successful You may know how
well the soldiers fght on the 18th of July.
Alasi Some Of them will fight no more.
They sleep to-day meath the turf OF the
battlefield, Fnller's loss is said TO be one
hu ndred and eight that day. Mersys
loss only eighteen-all Of them wound-
ed @
0ae fellow, who was at Vieksburg one
year ago, being captured by Mersys
men, remarked; swell, this is Just what
you 'uns did for We uns last 4th OF
July
"Wbat made you give up Kenesaw
Mountain2" asked soldier, in talk
ing to them.
"0h, we'll, Hooker and another regi-
ment fianked us. Aud here they began
TO charge Hooker with doing that very
mean business ever since leaving Dal-
ton. 1t is verify true that ha has done
his share in that line. a
Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-08-01
Richmond.

Even some Of the shewdest rebels are
now beginning to see that General Grant,
at bis present position, is more seriously
threatening Richmond that it vas ever
threatened before In a very striking
article in the Augusta (Ga.) constitu.
tionaist, the writer hrst diseourses Of
the danger to the oonfederacy from Gen
eral Sherman's advance upon Atlanta
and then says;
zeThe second danger is of the seige Of
Richmond. Some of our contemporaries,
and m ost Of the correspondents. laugh
at this; aud yet, Grant has it in his pow
er TO beseige the capital, or force an at
tack on himself, or force an evacuation
Hof Richmond. Not that be has his
choice of these, three things but can force
that choice uponlus In Grants moving
upon the south Of Richmond, threatening
James River near the city, General Lee
has choice Of two evils If be keeps
ahead Of Grant and holds the Peters.
burg,line inviolate, that flank necessarily
gets between him aud Richmond. and
walks into the city at bis leisure.
If Lee keeps between Richmond aud
Grant, the latter, of course, gets between
him and the Southern States eommuca-
ton, and Ishut of the only source of sup
plies now left, as the valley Of Yir-
ginia is in the hands Of the enemy If
Lee wants to save Petersburg and Rich
mond both, be will have to attack Grant
in one Of his crawfsh movements, and
viii have to attack the positions and in
trenchments which the grand pick-and-
spade army never exists an hour with
out
In our Judgement, the plan ofths cam
paign is at last developed Western
Virginia, the valley and its resources, is,
bY the movement on Stanton and Lex
ingt0n, TO be rendered unavailable for
provisions. Grant is to throw bis army
into Notifications across the railroads
from Richmond south, and so cut off
our supplies Thus the starvation Of
seias viii be as efectually ss ,ared as if
an army could be found large enough 10