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| Ao"uoa PROVIDED Tor in some Wav in tho
o'ate, perhaps by Gov Pettus. Alcorn
ronlmended one and Clark the other and
nuoe Davis, as | remember. commanded
u .he DIVISION. Now tell me, how is it that
.ne Ninth Mississippi Regiment of the Con.
ieuefate army was not the First2 Nv
company was mustered here ON the 27tb of
""Icl' lool, by Richard Griffith of Jack.
SON. aiterward colonel of the Twelfth Reri.
ment
AS understood, the order OF the Con.
iederate regiments was,
firSt-Ninth-Chalmers, colonel.
Ienth-Phillips, colonel.
Eleventh-Falkner, colonel.
1welfth-Grifith, colonel.
-Barksdale, colonel.
Baldwin, colonel
Fifteenth -Harrell, colonel
sixteenth -Posey, colonel.
-Featherston colonel,
Eighteenth Burt, colonel.
Nineteenth Mott colonel - first
mustered for the war
Inc above | remember and kna,v tha
co'oneis as well as many others personally.
some OF the eight first regiments two
orl8aues referred to-as | remember, were
sixty day enlistments. Were all of them
such IN the first instance Were they State
troops-the armyor the State, If | mis-
take not, Gcn. A. NJ. West was chief
quartermaster and commissary and Col,
Jones y, Hamilton was adiutant.generaI,
How is it, Your friend,
WM NJ. STRICKLAND.
In the Mississippi volume Of the
confederate Military History, recent
ly published, this explains a matter
that has not been understood by MANY
Others even as well informed as Major
Strickland:
On January 93 1861, the Secession
convention adopted the following:
An ordinance to regulate the military sys.
TEN of the State Of Mississippi.
SEE l. be it ordained by the people Of
Mississippi in convention assembled. That
one division OF volunteers be as early as
practicable enlisted and mustered into ser.
vice by order of the Military Board here
matter constituted, to serve until dis.
charged, as hereinafter provided, and to
consist of four brigades each brigade to be
composed OF two regiments, and each regi-
ment OF tea companies of infantry or
rliiemen, and each company of not less
than forty-eight nor more than one hun
dred men; and also not exceeding ten COM
panies of cavalry of not less than fifty
men each, and not exceeding ten COM
panles of artillery of not less than sixty
men each, and that the volunteers SO en-
listed shall not be subject in any manner
to the officers of the militia.
Sec 2 That the eight regiments of in
fantry or rihemen shall be raised as follows
there follows a list of the counties allotted
to each regiment. The companies of cav.
airy and artillery to be raised ndiScrim-
inately from the State at large.
Thus it appears that agreeable to
this ordinance eight regiments were to
be raised within the State.
This ordinance was adopted January
%, 1861, In March of the same year,
some two months after, the first troops
that went ont from the State of Missis-
sppi went to Pensacola, Fla, and were
there numbered by Gen. Griffith.
The passage of the ordinance was
notice to all the world, certainly to
Mssissippians, that eight regiments
which of course would he numbered
from one to eight-would be raised
within the State. What was more
natural than for Gen Griffith to begin
numbering the first troops that went
ont from the State as nine and ten?
None of the eight regiments were
sixty day troops, They were mus
tered ito serve until discharged, and
most of them got their discharge on
bloody battle-feds and in army hos
pitfalls. The sixty day men served out
their enlistment in camp at Bowling
Green, KY, under Brig, Gen. James l..
Alcorn.
In the first announced staff OF the
commanderin-chief Gov. John j. Pet
tus, Gen. w. l.. Sykes was adiutaut-
general. He was succeeded 10y Col.
VIM. II. Brown, and he by Col, Jones
s. Hamilton. These officers were ac-
tive, jealous and successful in organ2.
ing and equipping troops for service.
The Commercial Appeal, in referring
to Bishop Gailor in a deservedly com
plimentary way, speaks of him as
native of Memphis, Our impression
is that he was born in jackson, Miss
His father was in the newspaper busi-
ness in Jackson from 1854 until the
breaking out of the war, when he re-
moved to Memphis, enlisted in the
Confederate service, and was killed at
Perryville.
The celebrated Brooks Storey has
made his escape for the sixth time from
the Mississippi penitentiary, He was
patient in the hospital, and was anxious
for n little free, fresh air. An un-
guarded door gave him the opportunity.
Somebody's safe will suffer while Storey
is at large.
The superintendent of education of
Yazoo county will have to get a dozen
more colored teachers from other coun-
ties. After several examinations he
cannot muster sufficient number in
Yazoo to supply the schools
The Columbus Dispatch notes that
Sin the prosecution of a blind tiger at
Starkvllc recently, President Hardy
of the A. & NJ, College was among the
prosecutors, and asked for the full pen
atty of the law for the accused. The
patrons Of the A. & NJ. viii note this
act of his with satisfaction, for it shows
that he is caring for the moral as well
as mental and material wei flare of the
large number of young men entrusted
TO his keeping"
i. S. Terry, the efficient and popular
clerk Of Calhoun County died Noyem'