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Things at Pensacola — re-enlistment.

--The Warrington (Florida) correspondent of the Mobile Advertiser and Register announces the escape of more negroes from Pensacola to Fort Pickens.

Several companies of the 1st Alabama regiment (which was one of the first regiments to enlist) have been discharged, their term of service being up. The remaining companies go out in March. Several efforts have been made, but with poor success to induce the men to re-enlist. Several days ago, however, Gen. Bragg appealed to their patriotism with stirring earnestness. He said that he would rather have one such regiment of veterans than three regiments of raw troops During that day an effort was made to re-organize the regiment. Three companies--Captains Clarke's, Smith's, and Posey's — declined to re-organize in this regiment. The seven other companies furnished a small number each, about 250 in all. This number will probably be increased to 300 or 350 in a few days. It is expected then to fill up the regiment by recruits.

The troops at Pensacola have had a hard time of it, and want to go home to rest.

At present, says the correspondent, the sickness and mortality among the new regiments is startling.

The Daily Dispatch: January 27, 1862. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. January 27, 1862. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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