The Daily Dispatch: March 11, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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By the Governor of Virginia.
a Proclamation.

the President of the Confederate states has called for forty thousand additional troops from Virginia.-- call affirms that ‘"the exigencies of the public service require, in order to the invasion of Virginia, that her be called out in her defence more speedily than can be done under the operation of the law recently enacted by her Legislature"’ No call line this has ever yet been made upon this State in vain. Every must be strong. Every son of Virginia must respond with an ardent zeal to defend the Commonwealth. These subject to military duty are alone required to perform this service, but gallant volunteers, who come with the will to do or die for this great cause, will be given a place in our ranks. This war has attained a point which requires braves and true patriots to leave their homes and grapple sternly with the foe. We will untimely submit to degradation or slavery. We will have Virginia independent 0and all our liberties maintained, or perish in the attempt to secure them.

Therefore, I, John Letcher, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, by virtue of authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws, do hereby require the militia and the volunteers of the respective counties and named in the schedule hereto annexed, a repair forthwith to the respective places assigned them, without waiting for further Move at once to the places designed.

Commandants of regiments and companies will immediately cause their commands to be summoned employing expresses where necessary, and when assembled, order them with expedition to the nearest railroad line, and thence to the rendezvous and report to the General in command. Regiments will sure be consolidated and formed into ten companies to a regiment, with one hundred men to each company.

Field and company officers sufficient for the that may be assembled, will be assigned to rank, and junior officers who have no commands will be considered super-Honorary, and be returned to the ranks. Ofless in command of detachments en routs to places of rendezvous will cause the necessary applies for their commands to be furnished, to the persons furnishing them certificates of indebtedness, which will be paid by the Auditing Board at Richmond.

Every private having a serviceable fire-arm of any description in his possession, or who in procure one from a neighbor not able to perform duty, will carry it with him. If best, the arms will be paid for by the State.--Those who have no arms will be provided with them at the respective rendezvous.

The loyal citizens of the West and Northwest, in counties not herein named, are earnestly invoked to form guerilla companies, and strike, when least expected, once more in the State that gave them birth. With resolve and manly courage uphold the and the untarnished fame of the Old Do ion Scorn the misrule of traitors, who, with usurped authority, are desecrating our with a pollution worse than that of the enemy, and vengeance upon who acknowledges and sustains their

Given under my hand as Governor, and under the Seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia, this tenth day of March, 1862, and in the 86th year of the Commonwealth. John Letcher.

By the Governors

George W. Munford,

Sec'y of the Commonwealth.

places of rendezvous.

To report to Major-General T. J. Jackson Winchester:

The forces from the counties of Morgan, Berkeley, Jefferson, Frederick, Clarke, Hampshire, Warren, Shenandoah, Hardy, Page, Rockingham, Augusta, Bath, Rockbridge, Botetourt, and Craig.

To report to Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, at Manassas:

The forces from the counties, of Fairfax, Prince William, Fauquier, Rappahannock, Culpeper, Madison, Greens, Orange, Albemarle, Amherst, Nelson, Camp Bedford, Roanoke, Pulaski, Montgomery Carroll, Floyd, Grayson, and the city of Lynchburg.

To report to General T. H. Holmes, at Fredericksburg:

The forces from the counties of Stafford, Spotsylvania, Caroline, King George, Westmoreland, Northumberland, Richmond, Lancaster, Louisa, Fluvanna, Brochland, Hanover, and the town of Fredericksburg.

To report to Gen. Benj. Hugar, at the city of Norfolk:

Its forces from the counties of Patrick, Henry, Franklin, Pittsylvania, Halifax, burg, Brunswick, Lunenburg, Charlotte, Prince Edward, Appomattox, Northway, Amelia, Cumberland, Buckingham, Powhatan, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Greenville, Sussex, Southampton, Surry, Nausemond, Norfolk, Princess Anne, Pittee George, and the city of Petersburg.

To report to Gen. J. B. Alagruder, at Williamsburg:

The forces from the counties of Charles City, New Kent, James City, King William, King and Queen, Gloucester, Mathews, Elizabeth City, and Warwick.

The Militia of the following counties will be report at present, but will hold themselves in to obey orders when issued by Gen. H. Herth, or Gen. H. Marshall:

The counties of Giles, Monroe, Greenbrier, Mercer, Taxswell, McDowell, Smythe, Wythe, ing Washington, Russell, Wise, Bu Scott, and Lee.

To rendezvous at Monterey, in Highland and to report their presence there, for to General Edward Johnson, who is at Champ Alleghany, Highland county:

The forces of the counties of Highland, ston, and Pocahontas.

To rendezvous at the New Fair Ground, near Richmond, and to report to General :

The forces of the county of Henrico, and the city of Richmond.

The Enquirer, Whig, and Dispatches, publish daily for one week, and all the country papers in the State will publish this proclamation three times. mn 10--1w.