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Page 370 MD., E. N. C., PA., VA., EXCEPT S. W., & W. VA. Chapter LXIII.

IV. COlonel Starke's Sixtieth Regiment Virginia Volunteers, Wise Legion, will be organized under its colonel, as follows: The four companies of that regiment raised in Eastern Virginia to be detached from the regiment and their places supplied by three companies of the legion raised in Western Virginia and two companies (to be consolidated into one company) of Pegram's regiment, now at Staunton, the detached companies to be disposed of hereafter.

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XI. The Twenty-second Regiment Alabama Volunteers, Colonel Z. C. Deas commanding, will immediately proceed to this city and report for duty to the Adjutant-General. The Sam. Cooper Rifles is assigned as a company of the Twenty-second Regiment Alabama Volunteers.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

John WITHERS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

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GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS, Numbers 34.
Richmond, November 5, 1861.

I. The district or division created by General Orders from these headquarters dated April 26, 1861, comprising the Virginia troops in and about Richmond, is hereby discontinued. The records, desks, and movable property belonging thereto will be for the present deposited in this office.

II. Lieutenant Colonel John E. Johnson, acting assistant adjutant-general to the division, is relieved from that duty, and will proceed to the headquarters of Major-General Holmes and report for duty with the cavalry serving under his command.

By order of General Lee:

GEO. DEAS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

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SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 208.
Richmond, November 6, 1861.

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VI. Captain Maurin will immediately proceed with his light battery of Louisiana artillery to Yorktown, Va., and report for duty to Major-General Magruder, commanding.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

John WITHERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

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RICHMOND, November 6, 1861.

General J. E. JOHNSTON,

Manassas, Va.:

Colonel Richard Griffith, of Mississippi, has been appointed brigadier-general, to replace General Charles Clark. The Texas regiments leave to-morrow via Fredericksburg.

S. COOPER,

Adjutant and Inspector General.

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