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The Daily Dispatch: July 29, 1863., [Electronic resource], The New State Administration. (search)
The New State Administration. General William Smith, the Governor elect of Virginia has arrived in the city. It is understood that he will now resign his office of Brigadier General in the Confederate army and proceed to prepare himself for t whose position and magnitude places her most prominently in the struggle now pending between the North and the South. Gov. Smith has already filled the office of Governor of Virginia. He has had a long and very active career as a public man, and h true patriot, as his course in the present struggle and his honorable service in the field incontestably establish. Governor Smith having been always a decided party man, and Democratic at that, and having been ultra in his views upon the issues of Southern statesmen. They forget all in the common devotion to their country and fight side by side in her defence. Governor Smith will take the chair of State in a period of trial that demands of every man the exertion of his best energies for the