Summary:
November, 1861, Confederate Special Orders reorganizing troop formations,
including some in Staunton.
SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 206. ADJT. AND INSP. GEN.'S OFFICE,
Richmond,
November 5, 1861.
I. Col. G. W. C. Lee, C. S. Army, with Col. Wofford's Eighteenth Regt. Georgia Volunteers and Lieut.-Col. Stovall's battalion of Georgia Volunteers, now at Goldsborough, N. C., will immediately proceed to this city and report to the Adjutant-Gen. for further orders.
IV. Col. Starke's Sixtieth Regt. Virginia Volunteers, Wise Legion, will be organized under its colonel, as follows: The four companies of that regiment raised in Eastern Virginia to be detached from the regiment and their places supplied by three companies of the legion raised in Western Virginia and two companies (to be consolidated into one company) of Pegram's regiment, now at Staunton, the detached companies to be disposed of hereafter.
XI. The Twenty-second Regt. Alabama Volunteers, Col. Z. C. Deas commanding, will immediately proceed to this city and report for duty to the Adjutant-Gen. The Sam. Cooper Rifles is assigned as a company of the Twenty-second Regt. Alabama Volunteers.
By command of the 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 51, Serial No. 108, Pages 369-370, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.
