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in our State Library—a lamentable loss.
Further, of the ‘Executive Journal,’ which might assist in the want of the ‘proceedings’ referred to, there is preserved in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth only the record to the month of December, 1860, inclusive, and then—a hiatus—taken away by the Federal authorities in April, 1865, to the incumbency of Governor Francis H. Peirpont (or Pierpoint, as he then subscribed himself), commencing in 1864.
The list of the dates of the commissions of the officers of the First Regiment Virginia Volunteers will be held of interest by our community.
Nearly all of them received deserved promotion for gallantry in the field.
Editor.