Alan J. Pitts
PACS officers
Wed Feb 7 16:49:28 2001


Well, I'll have to resort to our other topic of Confederate military law. We'll probably discover that the Confederate Congress authorized a set number of officers for the PACS and no enlisted men. That's what I suspect.

There may have been a limited number of regulars. I'm sure you're familiar with the 1st Alabama Artillery Battalion, which was transferred from the Army of Alabama to the PACS very early in its career, the Confederate Marine Corps, the 1st Georgia Regulars, and a couple of other organizations. I believe I've seen ads in the Mobile Advertiser/Journal for the regular army; evidently few were willing to join.