The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 4, Volume 3. Page: 31
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CONFEDERATE AUTHORITIES. 31
are always subject to rejection without assignment of reasons, experi-
ence will show that no advantage can arise from the Senate's cur-
tailing its own discretion in future cases by binding its own judgment
in advance.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
ATLANTA, January 15, 1864.
Hon. JAMES A. SEDDON:
I am satisfied that I can raise a large and efficient force if the
authority I have asked for to organize troops for the war from State
Guard is granted. Rest assured it is the best policy. It is important
that I receive an answer at once.
HOWELL COBB,
Major- General.
RICHMOND, January 15, 1864.
His Excellency JEFFERSON DAVIS,
President of the Confederate States, Richmond, Va.:
SIR: We beg leave, in view of the condition of the military service,
as connected with the organization of our Kentucky troops, to make
some suggestions which may render those troops more effective. At
present they are dispersed in small bodies with the different armies
in the west and southwest. The terms for service for which they
engaged are drawing to a close. There does not exist amongst them
any desire to abandon the cause in which they so heartily embarked;
but there does exist a strong wish amongst the infantry to change the
character of their service. It is an opinion, founded upon all the
facts within our reach, that great benefit would result to the country
by organizing these troops in a State organization, and in mounting
them as far as it can be done. The following would be some of the
results of such an organization:
First. It would gratify a natural desire existing among soldiers for
a change, and would go far toward satisfying their craving to see their
homes; for next to the enjoyment of their own firesides would be the
satisfaction of a camp home amongst their own exiled people.
Second. The concentration of the Kentuckians would be an induce-
ment to call together at once from all parts of the Confederacy all
stragglers and people from the State not yet attached to military
organizations. It would also be an inducement held out to Southern
men yet remaining in Kentucky to enlist in the organization. The
benefits resulting from such a concentration would, in our opinion,
far outweigh the temptations held out to individuals to leave the
ranks.
Third. The concentration of these troops in the vicinity of Ken-
tucky in aposition to act in concert with any general movement of
our Western army would have a most beneficial result. We think
by the opening of the spring campaign there could be assembled in
East Tennessee, or such other position as may be deemed best, about
8,000 effective Kentuckians. Combining their movements with those
of the main army, they could enter Kentucky. Most of them are
veteran troops. Fighting as in fantry, they would be numerous enough
and sufficiently effective to drive before them any cavalry force likely
to be sent against them. The result would be either that they would
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