Army matters.
The Northwestern part of the
State, which has been the scene of no little disaster to our cause, has been assigned to the command of
Brig. Gen. W. W.
Loring, who set off for his post this morning.
Gen. Loring was a Colonel of rifies in the United States Army, and has just reached here from
New Mexico, of which department he had command at the time of his resignation.
He is a citizen of
Florida, and was appointed from civil life in the
Mexican war as
Major, and was continued in the service after the end of the war, in the
Mounted Riles.
He served gallantly in
Mexico and lost an arm at
Chepultepec.
He has seen a great deal of service in
Oregon,
Washington, and other portions of the far
West against the Indians, and is one of the most energetic and efficient officers in the service.--He has had much experience in mountain warfare, and is peculiarly fitted for the command that has now been assigned him. In the course of a week or ten days he will have a command of fifteen thousand men, and we trust he will be able to wipe out
Mcclellan from the theatre of his much boasted exploits.
General Loring traveled East with
General Albert S. Johnston, late of the United States Army, in command of the Army of Utah whose presence has been anxiously expected from some time.
General A. S.
Johnston will be in
Richmond in the course of a week.
He will be at once assigned to some most important command, with the rank of full
General Rumor seems to authorize the conjecture that General A. S.
Johnston will be placed at the head of all operations in the
Mississippi Valley.
He is a Kentuckian by birth and citizenship, but promptly resigned on hearing of the transactions of April.
Having to make his way overland, his journey to the
East has necessarily been protracted.
