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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 106 2 Browse Search
Col. Robert White, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.2, West Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 101 1 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 96 0 Browse Search
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862., Part II: Correspondence, Orders, and Returns. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 82 4 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 70 0 Browse Search
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion 60 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 59 1 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 56 2 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 44 4 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 44 2 Browse Search
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rnor, accompanying a report from the Quartermaster-General of the State Line, and letters from Gen. Floyd, all relating to matters of importance news pending before the Committee on Military Affairs. Virginia may require. I have the honor to be, sir, With great respect, your ob't serv't John B. Floyd, Major-General Com'g Virginia Line. the bill was discussed at considerable lengthion of public duty, transferred by law the State Line, under the command of Major-General John B Floyd, to the authorities of the Confederate States, and desirous or expressing to that eminent patrioks of the General Assembly of Virginia are due, and are hereby tendered, to Major-General John B Floyd, for the zeal, gallantry, ability, and untiring devotion which he his exhibited in the command o the General Assembly are also tendered to the officers and soldiers under the command of Major General Floyd for the efficiency and gallantry displayed by them while in the service of the State.
The troops of the State Line --The State Senate having passed a bill for the transfer to the General Government of the troops composing Gen. Floyd's army, known as the State Line, the measure was yesterday concurred in by the House of Delegates. A very general desire seemed to exist on the part of members of both branches of the General Assembly that these troops should form part of the army of the Confederate States operating in Virginia. How far that army will be benefited by the transfer remains to be seen. It is understood that the majority of the men composing Gen. Floyd's army were enlisted only for twelve months, a period with the most of them a spring in a short time. The reasons actuating the General Assembly in making the transfer are said to be, first, the expense attendant on keeping in the field an army on State account, and secondly, a conviction that successful war could better be prosecuted under the auspices of the Confederate than the State Government. Even