CONSTITUTION OF VIRGINIA. Section 13. The present Militia Officers shall be continued, and vacancies supplied by appointment of the Governor, with the advice of the Privy Council, or recommendations from the respective county courts; but the Governor and Council shall have a power of suspending any officer, and ordering a courtmartial on complaint of misbehaviour or inability, or to supply vacancies of officers happening when in actual service. The Governor may embody the Militia, with the advice of the Privy Council, and when embodied, shall alone have the direction of the Militia under the laws of the country. 4th Brig. 1st, 17, 23, 24, 49, (7th Brig. 13th, 32, 58, 93, 97, A 2 CAVALRY AND ARTILLERY. There are four regiments of each. They are raised within the respective divisions of the Militia, and are distinguished by the same numbers. The Battalions of each, also correspond with each other. 1st. REGIMENT. 1st. Battalion-Composed of the Troops and Companies raised within the 4th and 12th Brigades. 2nd. Battalion-Composed of the Troops and Companies raised within the 11th and 15th Brigades. 2ND REGIMENT. 1st. Battalion-Composed of the Troops and Companies raised within the 1st and 3rd Brigades. 2nd. Battalion-Composed of the Troops and Companies raised within the 5th and 6th Brigades. 3RD REGIMENT. 1st. Battalion-Composed of the Troops and Companies raised within the 7th, 13th, 17th and 19th Brigades. 2nd. Battalion-Composed of the Troops and Companies raised within the 10th, 16th, 18th and 20th Brigades. 4TH REGIMENT. 1st. Battalion-Composed of the Troops and Companies raised within the 8th, 9th and 21st Brigades. 2nd. Battalion-Composed of the Troops and Companies raised within the 2nd and 14th Brigades. The following are the Regiments in Virginia, arranged in numerical order, with the counties in which they are located. 1st Regiment-Amelia, 2 Ohio, Frederick, . Culpeper, Essex, Norfolk county, Augusta, 54 King & Queen, 10 66 Bedford, 56 ༄་ New Kent and Campbell, Loudoun, Prince George, part of York, King William, Franklin, 89* Stafford, 91 tr Amherst, Lancaster, * The 89th regiment, Prince William, has been recently consolidated with the 36th, in the same county. |