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The Daily Dispatch: September 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Gen. Tochnan and the Polish Brigade. (search)
orrespondent has inadvertently fallen. Feeling a cordial sympathy with the South in their struggle for national independence, and the maintenance of constitutional liberty, in May last I repaired to Montgomery, and tendered my services to the President in any capacity he might choose to employ them. The result was that the Secretary of war handed me a written authority to raise two regiments, of which the following is a copy: "Confederate States of America War Dept., Montgomery, May 20, 1861. To Major G. Tochman:Sir: You are authorized to raise ten companies of persons of foreign birth, and to enlist for the war, with the privilege, on the part of the privates, to withdraw at the end of the three years. Or, should you find it practicable, you are authorized to raise twenty companies, which would be organized into a brigade. Such officer of the army as may be necessary will be detailed at such points within the Confederacy as you may indicate to enlist the men. Or, you a