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The Daily Dispatch: January 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], Financial condition of South Carolina. (search)
Virginia militia. --The standing army of the "Old Dominion" now consists of 5 Divisions, 28 Brigades, 5 Regiments of Cavalry, 5 of Artillery, 3 Regiments and 4 Battalions of volunteers, and 195 Regiments of the line.--All the Regiments of the line are now organized, except the 68th James City and part of York, the 94th Lee, the 161st Ohio, and the 163d Hancock, No return has been received from the 24th Brigade, Gen. B. W. Price, composed of the counties of Brooke, Ohio, Marshall and Hancock, numbering 5 Regiments; and including these, there are in the whole State 5 Regiments of the line, not less than 10,000 men, from which no returns have been received. There are undoubtedly at least 200,000 men in the State subject to militia duty, yet the annual consolidated return gives nearly 60,000 short of that number. The volunteer force is increasing vastly.--There are now in commission 92 troops of Cavalry, 20 companies of Artillery, 111 companies of Light Infantry, and 113 compa
entucky. He is represented as a desperate man, and in making the arrest he was shot by one of the Confederate party, but, we learn, not severely wounded. Considerable curiosity was manifested by the citizens on his arrival, everybody wanting to get a peep at the "mide." He was lodged in the city jail. The Tories of Bast Tennessee. From the Lynch burg Republican, of the 5th inst. we take the following: A letter from one of our subscribers, a colonel in the Confederate service, dated Russellville, Tenn., December 3, says the tories and bridge-burners have not all left East Tennessee yet. Since we drove them from the "Chimney Top Mountains," they have collected in Cocke and Hancock counties, where our citizen soldiers have made two unsuccessful attempts upon them. I hope, however, to get them to-day with my command, and will avail myself of the earliest moment to advise you as to the results. We hung two of the leading bridge-burners in Greenville Saturday evening.