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The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], The siege of Charleston. (search)
bsentees, be it remembered, are all within the ages prescribed by the conscript law, and, if brought back to their duties, would make the forces of the Confederacy more than sufficient to cope with the enemy. Under these circumstances, is it not the height of folly to extend the conscript age, and compel schoolboys and gray-headed men to take the places of stalwart deserters? Such a course is a measure of desperation, a confession of weakness which is not warranted by the facts, a proclamation that the Confederacy is on its last legs and is compelled to play its last card. If Congress is not given over to that madness which goes before destruction it will refuse to take the "seed corn" of the country, as President Davis has aptly characterized the boys of sixteen, and the infirm old men of the country, for purposes which are not demanded by the good of the country, all whose military necessities can be supplied if, instead of making new laws, the existing legislation is enforced.
The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
in Mexico, and with the distinguished services he rendered during the war with that country as an artillerist. Some time after the war, and during Mr. Pierce's administration, he resigned his commission in the army on account of some ruling by Mr. Davis, the Secretary of War, and retired to his plantation in Mississippi. When the present war broke out, it found Gen. Bragg engaged in the peaceful and ennobling pursuits of the planter. He had married after the Mexican war and was the possessor of one of the finest estates in the Southwest. Soon after his inauguration as President of the Provisional Government, Mr. Davis, overlooking their former differences, offered him the commission of Brigadier General in the Provisional Army, which he accepted without a moment's hesitation. The fact here recorded is creditable alike to the President and his new Brigadier, since it shows that neither of them would allow private feeling to stand in the way of public duty. It proves, moreove