On June 8, 1861, Confederate troops operating in northwestern Virginia were designated the "Army of the Northwest" with Brig.

[1] Troops of this command were engaged by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Department of the Ohio forces in a series of battles and skirmishes early in summer 1861.

Loring commanded until November, when he was given three Army of the Northwest brigades as a division (still designated Army of the Northwest) paired with the Stonewall Brigade under Stonewall Jackson's command for the Romney Expedition.

[1] The army was disbanded February 9, 1862, but a separate small force under Brig.

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