Transportation, supplies of rations, arms, ammunition, all were to be collected immediately.

The material existed, or could be supplied, as the sequel clearly showed; but as yet there was almost nothing.

And it was chiefly to the work of organizing these departments, first of all, that General Lee and the Military Council addressed themselves with the utmost energy.
The result was, that the State found herself very soon in a condition to offer a determined resistance.

The troops at the various camps of instruction were successively sent to the field; others took their places, and the work of drilling the raw material into soldiers went on; supplies were collected, transportation found, workshops for the construction of arms and ammunition sprung up; small-arms, cannon, cartridges, fixed and other ammunition, were produced in quantities; and, in a time which now seems wholly inadequate for such a result, the Commonwealth of Virginia was ready to take the field against the Federal Government.
X.
THE WAR BEGINS.
Early in May, Virginia became formally a member of the Southern Confederacy, and the troops which she had raised a portion of the Confederate States Army.

When Richmond became the capital soon afterward, and the Southern Congress assembled, five brigadier-generals were appointed, Generals Cooper, Albert S.
Johnston, Lee, J.E.Johnston, and Beauregard.