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CONFEDERATE AUTHORITIES.
corn necessary to support the soldiers' families. I am also informed
that large amounts of corn have been collected as tithes at various
depots which cannot be transported from the State before it will be
seriously damaged, and that the amount is more than is sufficient to
sustain the troops now in service in the State. Presuming the facts
stated to be true, there are two reasons why I should be pleased to
receive from Colonel Northrop an order upon his officers, at points in
the State where it can be spared, to deliver to my order for the use of
soldiers' families an aggregate of 10,000 or 12,000 bushels of corn
upon payment of the amount per bushel at which its value has been
fixed by the commissioners of the State and Confederate States. It
will prevent a loss to the Confederate Government and will save the
families of soldiers from suffering. The question may be asked, Is
there not corn in the State sufficient for the wants of the citizens
besides that received as tithes? And if the Government shall need
corn during the year, can it be obtained? I believe there is corn
enough in parts of the State for the general supply, and if the Gov-
ernment shall now spare the corn from the tithes, that hereafter a
larger amount may be obtained from the farmers if needed. If it is
asked why it is not purchased by the county commissioners from those
who have it, the reply is that county commissioners have no legal
right to impress, and therefore cannot purchase. I admit that this is
an unhappy state of affairs, but it is beyond my control. My opinion
is that if the soldiers' families were supplied as I propose, many who
now hold and refuse to sell their corn would be glad to sell at less
than prices now affixed, and if needed by the Confederate Govern-
ment they would necessarily be compelled to sell to avoid impress-
ments, and that the corn and subsistence received as tithes, which
the Government has not the means of transporting, should be used to
sustain the troops in service here and the families of soldiers that
require assistance, and then if there shall be a need for more, those
who have to spare should be made to do so unless they willingly sup-
ply the demands of the Government. From personal observation
lately made, I am enabled to state that there are immense quan-
tities of provender, especially in Southwestern Georgia, awaiting
transportation and being injured and lost to the Government for the
want of means to transport it. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of
bales of fodder have already been injured and useless. To remedy
the evil, why should not the Government, by contract or impressment,
take charge of the passenger trains a few weeks, remove the seats,
and transport in them the provender and subsistence needed by our
armies, which is being injured and lost for the want of transporta-
tion ? Recently I have received communications from General Perry's
brigade, copies of which are inclosed. In a letter addressed to the
President, dated October 5, 1863, I wrote, in consequence of General
Lee's letter to me, as follows:
With regard to the return of General Perry's brigade and the recruiting of it
as proposed, I would respectfully suggest, in compliance with the views of Gen-
eral Lee for supplying the place of General Perry's brigade with other troops,
that the First Regiment of Georgia Regulars and the Sixty-fourth Georgia Regi-
ment, now in this State, would constitute a larger force than General Perry's
brigade, and if General Cobb had not been absent from the State when I received
General Lee's letter I should have submitted to his consideration the propriety
and necessity of the change.
The regiments were suggested because I believed them to be better
drilled and better qualified to supply the place of General Perry's
brigade than any other I could suggest. The Sixty-fourth Regiment15
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