Summary:
These May, 1864, Confederate Special Orders muster Major H. W. Gilmor's partisans
into service as cavalry, and send them the Camp Maryland, Staunton, VA.
Richmond, Va.,
May 5, 1864.
VII. Capt. T. H. Bomar will proceed by railroad with his company, now on duty in Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, to headquarters Army of Northern Virginia, and report to Gen. R. E. Lee, commanding, &c., for assignment to duty with his appropriate regiment, the Thirty-eighth Georgia Infantry.
VIII. The Ben Hill Artillery, Capt. John B. Higdon commanding, is permanently detached from the Thirty-eighth Regt. Georgia Volunteers, and upon the arrival of Capt. Bomar's company, will proceed by railroad to headquarters Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and report to Maj. Gen. Samuel Jones, commanding, for assignment to duty as an unattached.
IX. The Fifty-ninth North Carolina Regiment, Col. Ferebee, the Sixty-Fifth North Carolina Regiment, Col. Folk, the Sixty-second Georgia Regiment, Col. Griffin, and the Seventh Confederate Cavalry, Col. Taliaferro, will constitute a brigade, to the command of which Brig. Gen. James Dearing, is hereby temporarily assigned.
XI. Maj. H. W. Gilmor's battalion Partisan Rangers will be immediately mustered into the service of the Confederate States as cavalry. Maj. Gilmor will then proceed by highway with his battalion of cavalry to Camp Maryland, Staunton, Va., and report to Maj. Gen. A. Elzey, commanding Maryland Line, for assignment. Citizens of other States who are enlisted in any company of this battalion may, if they desire it, be transferred to companies from their own States.
XII. Capt. Kincheloe's company Partisan Rangers will be mustered into the service of the Confederate States as cavalry, and will then be assigned to the Fifteenth Regt. Virginia Cavalry.
XVI. Capt. Thomas E. Gregg with his battery (Company C, Siege Train), South Carolina Volunteers, will proceed by railroad to headquarters Army of Northern Virginia, and report to Gen. R. E. Lee, commanding, &c., for assignment to Lieut.-Col. Pegram's artillery battalion, to relieve the Pee Dee Artillery, Lieut. W. E. Zimmerman, commanding.
Lieut. Zimmerman, on being relieved, will proceed with his battery to Charleston, S. C., and report to Maj. Gen. Samuel Jones, commanding, &c., for assignment.
The horses and guns of each battery will remain in the departments in which they are now.
XIX. Maj. Gen. J. C. Breckinridge will select two batteries from the Thirteenth Battalion Virginia Artillery, for duty in his department, after which Lieut. Col. J. Floyd King, commanding the battalion, will proceed by railroad with the two remaining batteries to headquarters Army of Northern Virginia, and report to Gen. R. E. Lee, commanding, for assignment to Brig.-Gen. Alexander's artillery corps.
XXVI. Col. William Butler, First South Carolina Enlisted Men, is relieved from duty in Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and will proceed without delay to headquarters Department of Richmond, and report to Maj. Gen. R. Ransom, commanding, &c., for assignment to the command of the artillery defenses of Department of Richmond.
XXVII. In all matters relating to the command, military police and operations, the Departments of Henrico and Richmond are hereby consolidated.
Brig. Gen. John H. Winder will report to Maj. Gen. Robert Ransom, jr.
XXX. The Thomas Legion, North Carolina Volunteers, will proceed by highway from East Tennessee to Western North Carolina. Lieut.-Col. Love, commanding, will report for orders to Col. J. B. Palmer, at Asheville, N. C.
By command of Secretary of War:
JNO. WITHERS,
Assistant Adjutant-Gen.
Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 36, Serial No. 68, Pages 958-959, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.
