Beauregard’s Address

The following address has just been issued to our troops, who are confident of victory:

HEADQUARTERS OF THE FORCES AT

CORINTH, Miss, May 8, 1862.

Soldiers of Shiloh and Elkhorn:

We are about to meet once more, in the shock of battle, the invaders of our soil, the despoilers of our homes, the disturbers of our family ties, face to face, hand to hand, we are to decide whether we are to be freemen or vile slaves, of those who are only free in name, and who but yesterday were vanquished, although in largely superior numbers, in their own encampments, on the ever memorable field of Shiloh.  Let the impending battle decide our fate, and add a more illustrious page to the history of our revolution – one to which our children will point with noble pride, saying, “Our fathers were at the battle of Corinth.”  I congratulate you on your timely junction.  With your mingled banners, for the first time during this war, we shall meet our foe in strength that should give us victory.  Soldiers, can the result be doubtful?  Shall we not drive back in Tennessee the presumptuous mercenaries collected for our subjugation?  One more manly effort, and trusting in God and the justness of our cause, we shall recover more than we lately lost.  Let the sound of our victorious guns be re-echoed by those of the army of Virginia on the historic battlefield of Yorktown.

G. T. BEAUREGARD,

General Commanding.

J. M. OTEY, Acting Ass’t Adj. Gen.

– Southern Paper.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, May 20, 1862, p. 2