Summary:
May, 1862, Confederate Orders providing guidelines for army recruiting in
Virginia. The orders establish a recruiting post at Staunton, VA.
GENERAL ORDERS, No. 1. HDQRS. VIRGINIA STATE LINE,
WM. H. RICHARDSON,
Adjutant-Gen.
Richmond,
May 30, 1862.
1. The address of many persons proposing to raise companies, &c., for service in the Virginia Line commanded by Maj. Gen. John B. Floyd, has not been left with the Adjutant-Gen. of the State. The authority to do so, if not forwarded to said persons, can be had at the officer of the Adjutant-Gen. of the Virginia Forces, Richmond.
2. The persons to whom such authority is given are hereby constituted recruiting and mustering officers for said service.
3. Such officers will swear and muster into service immediately after their enlistment such persons as enlist. The men thus sworn and mustered will be entitled to commutation of rations at the rate of 75 cents per day until rations can be furnished them in kind.
4. The point of general rendezvous for the troops of this command are Wytheville, Wythe County, Va., and Goodson, Washington County, V. To these places they will be sent as soon after they have been sworn and mustered, and in such numbers as may seem best to the recruiting officer. Transportation will be furnished them upon the certificate of the recruiting officer that they have been sworn and mustered into service.
5. Recruiting stations will be opened at the following places: Richmond, Petersburg, Lynchburg, Staunton; Union Monroe County, Va.; Fincastle, Charlottesville, Farmville; Hillsville, Carroll County, Va.
By order of Maj. Gen. John B. Floyd, commanding Virginia State Line:
WM. E. PETERS,
Acting 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 622, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.
