Order

A. Smead to Theutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General, April 21, 1862

April 21, 1862.

No. —. Camp at Valley Mills, Va., April 21, 1862. I. The troops of this command will be divided into two brigades; the one on the right, Colonel Porterfield commanding, to consist of the Twelfth Georgia and Twentyfifth and Thirty-first Virginia Regiments, Hausbrough’s battalion, and the Star Battery; the one on the left, Colonel Baldwin commanding, to consist of the Forty-fourth, Fifty-second, and Fifty-eighth Virginia Regiments, and Miller’s and the Lee battery. II. All official communications will be sent through the headquarters of the respective brigades. Commandants of brigades will sign all provision returns, requisitions, &c., and will send to this office every morning consolidated reports of their respective brigades.

By order of General Johnson:

Theutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

(Cironlar.)

Editor's Notes
From: Operations in N. Virginia, W. Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Pt. 1. Summary: A. Smead orders the division of troops into two brigades under Colonels Porterfield and Baldwin, mandates communication protocols, and requires daily consolidated reports from brigade commandants.
Sources
The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 12, Part 1 View original source ↗