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your arm in the day of battle and make dearer your 

 successes. 



Fathers, husbands, brothers, lovers, your country 

 calls you ! Citizens, your property and your rights are 

 in danger! Will you not go ? The hour for glorious 

 action is upon us ; let it not pass unheeded by. Gen. 

 .Beauregard does his fellow-citizens the honor to wish 

 them at his side in the hour of trial. A special mes- 

 senger, member of his staff, Dr. Choppin, waits to re- 

 turn to him a glorious response. Lpon volunteering 

 vou will be ordered to Gen. Beauregard, at Jackson, 

 Tenn., and in a few weeks, when the necessity is past, 

 you will return victorious, or leave your names as 

 martyrs embalmed in our hearts. 



THOMAS 0., MOORE, 

 Governor and Commander-in-Chief. 



The address of the surgeon-general to the 

 soldiers of New Orleans was as follows : 



Soldiers of New Orleans : 



You are aware of the disasters which have befallen 

 our armies in the West. Greater disasters still are 

 staring us in the face. Gen. Beauregard the man to 

 whom we must look as the saviour of our country 

 sends me ameng you to summon you to a great duty 

 and noble deeds invoking and inspired by the sacred 

 love of country and of priceless liberty, he has taken 

 the deathless resolution de les -cenger ou de les suii-re. 

 And with the immortal confidence and holy fervor of a 

 soul willing, if need be, to meet martyrdom, he calls 

 upon you to join him, in order that he may restore to 

 our country what she has lost, and lead you on to glory 

 and independence. In tones rigid and sullen as the 

 tollings of the funeral knell, but with clarion accents 

 that should send a quiver through every heart, and 

 string the nerves of every man, he cries out the final 

 refrain of that immortal hymn 



" Aux armes, citoyens ! formez vos battaillons, 



IfarcboM ! 



Marchons ! 

 Qu'un sang impur abreuve nosvsillor.s ! '' 



Creoles of Louisiana, on to the work ! 



S. CHOPPIX, 



Surgeon-Gen. Beauregard's Staff. 

 February 25, 1S62. 



So urgent was the necessity, that, on the 28th 

 of February, Gen. Beauregard thus addressed 

 the governor: 



JACKSON, Feb. 28, 1S62. 



I will accept all good equipped troops, under act of 

 21st August, that will offer, and for ninety days. Let 

 the people of Louisiana understand that here is the 

 proper place to defend Louisiana. 



G. T. BEAUREGARD. 



At the same time the regulations to govern 

 the formation of the volunteer organizations 

 were issued, of which the 18th is in these 

 words: " Pikes and lances will be furnished by 

 the State to all volunteer organizations not sup- 

 plied with fire arms." In every part of the 

 Confederate States this scarcity of arms existed. 



In New Orleans martial law was declared, 

 and a provost martial appointed under the 

 command of Gen. Lovell. All process for the 

 ejection of the families of soldiers for the non- 

 payment of rent was suspended. Steamboats 

 were forbidden to take white men as deck 

 hands, and required to discharge all who were 

 engaged. No exemptions from military duty 

 were allowed to any except minors, or persons 

 of physical disability. Passports were required 

 from all persons leaving the city. Founderies 

 and workshops were required to furnish lists 

 of workmen to whom exemptions were granted 



for a certain number of days. The traffic in gold 

 and silver against the notes of the Confederate 

 States was prohibited. A tariff of'prices was 

 fixed for beef, pork, bacon, flour, bread, rice, 

 corn, meal, peas, hay, oats, salt, &c., according 

 to which all these articles were to be sold. 



The effect of these efforts, and similar ones 

 in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee, was to 

 gather such a force under Gen. Beauregard as 

 enabled* him to check the Federal advance at 

 Shiloh, and detain it before Corinth until the 

 advance of the season and the low stage of the 

 water in the rivers made their further progress 

 impracticable until later in the year. Garrisons 

 were kept up at the forts below New Orleans, 

 and the city was put in a state of defence, 

 which was believed to be sufficient to defy any 

 attack. The preparations of the Federal Gov- 

 ernment for its capture, and the concentration 

 of military and naval forces at Ship Island, were 

 well known ; but no real apprehensions were 

 entertained of the success of that expedition. 

 That these convictions of safety were not 

 unreasonably sanguine is manifest from the 

 fact that the history of military and naval af- 

 fairs records no achievement so brilliant as the 

 capture of New Orleans. (See NAVAL OPERA- 

 TIONS.) The loss of this city, and the subse- 

 quent capture of the capital, Baton Rouge, 

 placed so completely in the power of the Fed- 

 eral commander the important portion of the 

 State, that there remained to the State Gov- 

 ernment little else than its name. Its troops 

 were required by the Confederate Government 

 elsewhere, and the military power which con- 

 tinued in the State was only sufficient for a 

 force of observation, as to make an attack upon 

 any unguarded or exposed Federal position. 



On the 18th of June, Gov. Moore published 

 an address to the people of the State, declar- 

 ing what regulations should be observed by 

 them relative to their enemies. This address 

 closed as follows : 



I am not introducing any new regulations for the 

 conduct of our citizens, but am only placing before 

 them those that every nation in war recognizes as ne- 

 cessary and proper to be enforced. It is needless, 

 therefore, to say that they will not be relaxed. On the 

 contrary, I am but awaiting the assistance and pres- 

 ence of the general appointed to the department to 

 inaugurate the most effectual method for their enforce- 

 ment. It is well to repeat them : 



Trading with the enemy is prohibited under all cir- 

 cumstances. 



Travelling to and from New Orleans and other places 

 occupied by the enemy is forbidden. All passengers 

 will be arrested. 



Citizens going to those places, and returning with 

 the enemy's usual passport, will be arrested. 



Conscripts or militiamen, having in possession such 

 passports, and seeking to shun duty under the pretext 

 of a parole, shall be treated as public enemies, No such 

 papers will be held as sufficient excuse for inaction by 

 any citizen. 



I'he utmost vigilance must be used by officers and 

 citizens in the detection of spies and salaried informers, 

 and their apprehension promptly effected. 



Tories must suffer the fate that every betrayer of his 

 country deserves. 



Confederate notes shall be received and used as the 

 currency of the country. 



