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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 30 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 21 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1864., [Electronic resource] 12 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 10 2 Browse Search
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley) 10 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: October 5, 1864., [Electronic resource] 10 0 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 9 1 Browse Search
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox 8 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 8 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 8 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: September 1, 1862., [Electronic resource], The militia. (search)
The militia. --We are at present having somewhat of a muss among the militia. The Governor's proclamation calling them out is not considered "according to Gunter." in the first place, a specified number in each county were called, and then the whole. In the first call, the Presiding Justices of the counties were virtually made Brigadiers, who were to turn the militia over to "intelligent gentlemen," who in turn were to turn them over to Gen. Floyd, at Saltville. In the second call, they were to go under their own officers and report to Gen. Floyd at Wytheville. Then the thing became tangled, and several field officers, considering themselves ignored, refused to respond, among them Col. J. H. Ernest, of this county. He conceived that the Governor, by his proclamation, disorganized the militia, which he had no power under the Constitution to do, and it was therefore illegal. He addressed the people here on Monday last upon the subject, and took a bold stand against the illeg