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The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
allory offered a resolution that the General Assembly respectfully request the President of the Confederate States to impress into the service whenever the public interests any require it, the horses used for pleasure in the city of Richmond and all other cities and towns in this Commonwealth, instead of impressing the horses and mules of the farmers in the country employed in the cultivation of their crops, not only for the support of their families, but the maintenance of the army. Mr. Woodson offered an amendment so that the resolution would suggest also the impressment into the service the riders of those pleasure horses, whenever such may be amenable to the existing military laws. Rejected. Mr. Magruder offered an amendment, which was accepted by Mr. Mallory that the opening of the resolution login reed "Resolved by the General Assembly that, in the opinion of this General Assembly the officers of the Confederate States, and of the State, who have charge of the subject,