The Daily Dispatch: January 22, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Military Divisions.

--A resolution has been introduced into both branches of the General Assembly to inquire into the expediency of promptly rearranging and increasing the number of divisions and brigades which competent military authority now regard as generally too cumbrous. It is indispensable to provide the officers with the means of instruction in tactics; and is especially and imperatively necessary to establish some more effective means of instruction in Cavalry tactics.

Speaking of Cavalry encampments, that distinguished officer, Col. Wm. S. Hardee, of the United States Army, who was present at the encampment near Richmond, in November last, by invitation, said that a camp of instruction for the officers only, would be far more valuable, and it would certainly be more practicable, than the assemblage of that force in masses. He had assisted in one or more States, at such encampments, with the best results. The officers attending them were allowed pay, subsistence and forage by the State. The Adjutant General, in his report, says: ‘"The suggestion seems to me to be eminently worthy of consideration. One or more, probably not more than two, such encampments might be authorized by the Legislature, at which the Cavalry officers might attend voluntarily. Provisions should be made by the State, of subsistence and forage for men and horses; and to cover expenses of travel, mileage should be allowed to all the officers who attended and remained during the period of the encampment."’