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tificate of election, and duplicates must be sent to Adjutant and In- spector General's office, Richmond, through Brigade Headquarters. By command Brigadier-General Blanchard, Commanding Third
Brigade.
W. L. RIUDICK, Assistant Adjutant-General.
To Major W. F. Niemeyer, commanding Forrest Entrenchment.
Major Niemeyer, with his command, retreated from Forrest En- trenchment, near Hall's Corner, in Western Branch, Norfolk county, on the loth of May, 1862, the day Norfolk and Portsmouth were evacuated, which he noted in his diary, "The saddest day of my life," and marched to Suffolk. On the nth day of May he left for Petersburg via Weldon, where he arrived on the I3th, and assumed command of the city and the Department of Appomattox for a short while. On the 22d day of May, 1862, the officers of the line assem- bled at Jarrett's Hotel, in Petersburg, under supervision of Major George W. Grice, Assistant Quartermaster, and elected field officers of the Sixty-first Virginia Regiment Infantry, as follows:
Colonel Samuel M. Wilson.
Lieutenant-Colonel William F. Niemeyer.
Major William H. Stewart.
And their commissions were issued on the I5th of July, 1862, by George W. Randolph, Secretary of War, to date from the 22d day of May, 1862.
HEADQUARTERS, PETERSBURG, VA., August 23d, 1862.
Pursuant to Special Order, Headquarters Petersburg, August 22d, the members of Board of Survey met this day at 12 M., and valued and mustered into Confederate service the following horses :
One roan mare, belonging to Lieutenant-Colonel Wm. F. Nie- meyer, valued at $175.
One bay horse, belonging to Major William H. Stewart, valued at $225.
(Signed) Lieutenant CHARLES D. MYERS, A, D. C. JOHN A. BAKER, " " "
Lieutenant J. A. SHINGLEIN, " " "
Detachments of the Sixty-first Virginia Regiment were sent from Petersburg to City Point, Port Walthall, and Point of Rocks, on the Appomattox river below the city of Petersburg.
