Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1862-03-18
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
BY THE GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA
A PROCI.AM AMATTON

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| The President Of the Confederate States has
| called for forty thousand additional troops from
Virginia. This call afirlns that ssthe exigencie.
of the public service require, in order to repel
the invasion of Virginia, that her sons be called
out in her defence more speedily than can be
done under the operation Of the law recently en-
acted by her Legislature" No call like this
has ever been made upon this State In vain. Ev-
cry nerve must be strung. Every son of Vir-
ginia must respond with an ardent zeal to defend
the Commonwealth. Those subject to military
duty alone are required to perform this service,
but gallant volunteers who come with the will to
or die for this great cause will be given place
In our ranks. This war has attained point which
requires brave men and true patriots to leave
their homes and gfapple sternly with the foe.-
We will not tanely submit to degradation or
slavery. We will have Virginia independent and
all our liberties maintained, or perish in the at
tempt to secure them.
Therefore, L, JOHN LEToHER, Governor of the
Commonwealth of Virginia, Dy virtue OF author
lty vested in me by the Constitution and laws.
do hereby require the militia and volunteers of
the respective counties and cities named in the
schedule hereuntO annexed, to repair forthwith
to the respective places assigned them without
waiting for further orders. Move at once to the
places designated. -
Commandants of Regiments and Companies
will Immediately cause their commands to be
summoned, employing expresses where necessa-
ry, and when assembled ,~erder them with expe-
diton to the nearest railroad line, and thence 10
the rendezvous and report to the General in COM
mand. Regiments will there be consolidated and
formed into ten companies TO regiment, with
one hundred men to each Company. 80 lls {
Field and company officers sufficient for the
force that may be assembled, will be signed ac-
cOrding to rank, and the junior officers who have
no commands will be considered supernumerary
and be returned to the ranks. Officers in COM
mand of detachments en- route to places of rem
dezvous will cause the necessary supplies and
transportation for their commands to be,furnish-
ed, giving to the persons furnishing them certif-
Gates OF indebtedness, which will be paid by the
Auditing Boaid at Richmond.
Every private having Serviceabe firearm of
any description in his possession, or who can
procure one from neighbor not liable to duty,
will carry it with him. If lost the arms will be
paid for by the State. Those who have NO arms
will be provided with them at the respective rem
devious
The loyal citizens of the Vest and Northwest,
in counties not herein named, earnestly in
voked to form guerrilla companies and strike,
when least expected, once more tor the State
that gave Them birth. With st rn resolve and
manly courage upholding the flag, and the un-
tarnished fame of the Old Dominion. Scorn the
misrule of traitors, who, with usurped authority,
are desecrating our soil with pollution worse
than that of the direst enemy, and execute ven-
geance upon the foe who acknowledges and sus-
tains their treason.
Given under my hand as Governor, and under
( ~ the seal of the Commonwealth of Vir-i
Z l. S ginia, this tenth day of March, 1862,
(o- ]aLd In the eighty-sixth year of the Com
JOHN LETCHER.
Teste, GEORGE W. MuNFoRD,
.-a Secretary of the Commonwealth.