The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-05-05
LOCAL MATTERS.
REORGANIZATION OF MILITARY DIVISIONS
The following orders were made public by
General Candy yesterday:

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HEADQUARTERS FIssT MILITARY DIszRIor, }
STATE OF VIRGINIA,
RICHMOND, VA, April 80, 1859.
General Orders No. IS.
l. The following re. organization of divi
sions of the State Of Virginia, and assignment
Of Military Commissioners, is hereby made,
to take effect May l, 1862 =
First Division: Accomac and Northampton
counties; and Second Division: Norfolk city,
Norfolk county, and city Of Portsmouth, and
Princess Anne county; commanding officer
post of Norfolk. Station-Norfolk.
Third Division: Nansemond, Surry, and
Isle Of Wight counties; Brevet Colonel Thos
Suffolk, Nansemond county.
Fourth Division: Elizabeth City and War
wick counties; Brevet Captain James Ken :
nington, first lieutenant United States army.
Station-Hampton, Elizabeth City county
Fifth Division James City and York, Glou-
cester and Mathews counties and Eleventh
Division: Charles City and New Kent coun-
ties; Captain Madison Earle, United States
army. Station-Williamsburg James City
county.
Sixth Division Prince George and Dlnwd.
die counties, and Petersburg city; command
ing officer post of Petersburg. Station-Pe.
tersburg.
Seventh Division: Southampton, Greenes-
Breyet Lien'enant-Colonel e. p. Pearson,
Jr., captain Seventeenth infantry. Station
Hicksford, Greenesyille county.
Eigh III Division Mecklenburg, Lunenburg,
Halifax, Charlotte, and Prince Edward colin
ties Brevet First Lieutenant G.. p. McTag-
CART, second Lieutenant United States army.
Station-Farmville, Prince Edward county.
Tenth Division: Amelia, Cum berland, Ches-
terfield, and Powhatan counties; Brevet
Lieutenant. Colonel George H. Hgbee, cap
tain United States army. Statlon-Manches-
ter, Chesterfield county.
Twelfth Division: King and Queen, King
William, Middlesex, and Essex counties; and
Thirteenth Division: Northumberland, Ian
caster, Richmond, and Westmoreland coun-
ties Second Lieutenant J. A. Yeckley, Uni
ted States army. Station-Warsaw, Rich-
mond county.
and Spotsylvania counties; and Sixteenth
Division: Richmond city; Brevet Major Paul
r. Hambrick, f1rst-leutenant United States
army. Station Richmond.
Fifteenth Division Henrico, Hanover, and
Goochland counties; Ma jor John M. Good
hue, United States army. Station-Richmond.
Seventeenth Division: Fluvanna, Louisa,
Albemarle, and Augusta counties; Brevet
First Lieutenant T. E. Town, second. lieu
tenant United States army. Station-Char-
lottesville, Albemarle county.
Eighteenth Division Orange, Culpeper,
Madison and Green, Fauquier and Kappa
hammock counties and Nineteenth Division ::
Stafford and Prince William, Londoun, Fair
tenant Colonel S. P. Lee. captain United
States army. Station-AIexandria city.
Twentieth Divisions Frederick, Rocking
ham. Clarke and Warren, Page and Shenan-
doah counties; Brevet Colonel O. Z. Bennett,
captain Seventeenth infantry. Station-Win-
chester.
Twenty. first Division: Pittsylvania coun.
ty; and Twenty-sixth Division Henry, Pat
rick, and Franklin counties; Second Lieu
tenant A. r. Egbert, United States army.
Station-Dlnyille.
Twenty Division: Bedford and
Campbell counties; and Twenty fifth Divi:
sion Botetourt, Allegheny, Craig, and
Roanoke counties; commanding officer post
of Lynchbnrg. Station-Lynchburg.
Twenty third Division: Amherst, Buck
ingham, Nelson, and AppomatLox counties
First Lieutenant F. J. Dunn, United States
army. Station-Lynchburg. i =.
and Rockbridge counties; Brevet Lieutenant
Colonel Z. Il. Knox, first lieutenant United
States army. Slation-Lexington, Rockbridge
county.
Twenty seventh Division: Montgomery,
Bland and Tazewell, Pulaski and Giles coun-
ties; Twen ty- eighth Division: Carroll, Floyd,
and Grayson counties; Twenty. ninth Divi-
sion: Wythe, Russell and Buchanan, Smyth
and Washington counties; and Thirtieth Di.
vision: Lee, Scott, and Wise counties. Bre-
vet Captain Henry Narcotic, first lieutenant
United States army. Standardization, Smy th
county.
4. l
signed are appointed superintendents OF regis
tration and election for their respective divi-
sionS.
s. The commanding officers of posts, herein
designated as military commissioners and
superinteudents of registration and election,
will be considered as present for duty ut their
posts, and will be so reported on the returns.
They are en- trusted with all the powers here
tofore conferred on military commissioners
and superinrsndents OF registration and eiec-
ton, by orders from these headquarters, in
addition to their duty as commanding officers.
A. Whenever, by the operation Of any mill
tary order, the commanding officer of any
post hereinbefore named is relieved from duty
thereat, or is absent from the post, the duties
of the military commissioner and superin-
tendent of registration and election will de-
yoiye upon his successor or the senior officer
left at the post.
s. The ofacers hereinbefore named. who are
not now on duty as military commissioners at
the stations above designated, are hereby re.
Neved from their present duties, and viii pro:
ceed at once TO the stations to which they are
assigned. - siaE a.la go II ),
BY command of Breyet Major- General
Canbv. l-T.-Z- -;t7 S SF.sCHAJsIS,
h"r Assistant Adjutant. General 8