The Daily Dispatch: may 28, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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Company for Local defence.

--The militia of the second clase will be interested in reading the advertisement in another column, headed, ‘"Great Inducements to Volunteers."’ Captain Warner Lewis and several assistants have been delegated by the Secretary of War to raise a battalion from the second class militia to serve within or arcund the city. The men will be entitled to the usual bounty and pay. No difficulty should be experienced in raising the battalion, as the services of the men are now needed to perforth services for which all loval citizens of Virginia and the Confederacy will feel grateful.

The city of Richmond is now, and has been for some days past, infested by the straggling soldiery of Gen. Johnston's army. Many of them, from evidence in General. Winder's office, are the worst element in the army. The peace of the city, no less than the discipline of the army, require that they should be arrested and sent back to their regimente, and it will be in part the business of the above batialion to see that this is accomplished. The military police of the city, under Gen. Winder. has recenly been so reduced that he no longer has under his immediate command a sofficient guard. Good quarters and subsistence for the men will be provided from the time of sulletment. Lieut. Ed C. Crump, late of the Richmond Sharpshouters is recruiting for the battalion.