[for the Richmond Dispatch.]
Rundem Thoughts on the War from a Georgia Stand Point,
Re-Enlistment.
The feeling in
Georgia is universal in favor of our twelve months volunteers re-enlisting.
Fathers who, like the writer, have their every son in the army, will go in if the young ones come out. If the old men are killed, the ladies will take their places.
Doubling in the Army.
This barbarous practice should be suppressed in the army by the high hand of authority.
If civilians choose to shoot each other, let them do it, But men who go forth to resist an army of invasion, should not be permitted to throw away their lives.
Resignation of officers.
This is another serious evil that should not be tolerated, except for ill health and incompetency.
Men are put in office, and valuable trusts confided to them, and it is trifling with the service and inflicting a wound upon it, if they capaciously resign.
If an officer does well, he deserves well, and promotion should come, but not at the bidding of such officer, or his friends.
Let him bide his time until the proper authorities say the word, and then go up. But never let resignations be accepted, tendered capriciously, or from disappointed expectation.
Feuds between officers.
Feuds between officers are of the essence of treason; they hurt our cause and give aid and comfort to the enemy.
The higher the standing of an officer, the greater the crime; and punishment should fall swiftly and surely on the offender.
It is to be feared that large political influence may screen offenders in this particular.
Whiskey.
This has been the scourge of our army.--Ye men at
Richmond, high in authority, we, fathers and mothers, beg you to save our sons from the awful curse.
If they fall by sickness or the sword, we are resigned.
But, oh!
save them from being poisoned and brutalized.
In this connection the furlough system is much abused.
Returned soldiers on furlough, drunk and besotted, are seen too often in our cars.
Far better keep them under the restraints of the camp.
Eighth of January.
It would gratify the people if the
Congress at
Richmond would do away with this day as a holiday and for military reviews, and substitute 21st of July.
England must and will be our ally.
Let us rejoice over
Manassas.
A Georgian,
