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Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 95 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 54 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 I. 49 3 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 44 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 40 0 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 38 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 36 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 35 5 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 34 6 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 22 2 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: July 22, 1861.., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for John Letcher or search for John Letcher in all documents.

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The requirements of the Proclamation of July 13th, as to arms and ammunition, will apply equally to the Volunteers hereby provided for. The places of rendezvous within the district embraced by the Proclamation of July 13, will be the same as therein provided except as follows: Rockbridge, Augusta and Bath counties will rendezvous at Staunton; and Highland county at Monterey. Volunteers from other parts of the State will rendezvous as required by Proclamation of May 3 1861. All companies hereafter formed will be of Infantry, unless otherwise specially ordered. Company officers will be elected by the companies, and field officers appointed by the Governor as has been done in the regiments heretofore formed. Given under my hand as Governor and under the seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia, this 9th day of July, 1861, in the eighty-sixth year of the Commonwealth. John Letcher. Published in the newspapers of the State, as heretofore. Jy 20--3t
and the Northwestern Bank of Virginia, with the offices of Discount and deposit of each, except the Branch of the Northwestern Bank of Virginia at Jeffersonville, have given aid to the enemy in every way in which their influence could be exerted or their funds be employed, and have displayed hostility to the constituted authorities of the Commonwealth of Virginia by disloyalty, and by recognizing the existence of a Government unacknowledged by our Constitution of laws: Therefore. I, John Letcher, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, do by virtue of authority vested in the Executive, hereby prohibit the bills or notes of either of said Banks, except those of the Branch of the North-Western Bank at Jeffersonville in Tazewell County, from being received in payment of any money due to the State of Virginia. The collecting officers throughout the Commonwealth are required to take notice of this prohibition. Given under my hand as Governor, and under the seal of the Commonwe
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.Affairs in King George. Port Conway, Va., July 18, 1861. Notwithstanding the call was anticipated, our militia was considerably "flurried" upon the appearance of Gov. Letcher's late proclamation. While there is no lack of proper zeal for the cause, nor want of nerve to meet the conflict in which they have been called upon to engage, yet there are many who find themselves surrounded by such circumstances as render it next to impossible for them to leave their homes. Great indeed will be the sacrifice in many individual cases, but all personal interests and considerations must now be made to yield to the higher service we owe to our country. The various militia companies of the county will rendezvous at our Court-House on Monday next, where they will remain to await further orders. At Mathias' Point all has been quiet for the past ten or twelve days. There have been some cases of sickness among the soldiers there, but none have a