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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—secession. (search)
hus the week following the attack and capture of Fort Sumter witnessed the cessation of all hesitancy on both sides. Blood was flowing; the struggle was extending farther and farther, and the march of events was progressing rapidly. On the 22d of April the Virginia convention conferred upon Colonel Lee the command of all the forces of that State; on the 24th, repudiating its former declarations, it announced the accession of Virginia to the Southern Confederacy, without waiting for the populthe configuration of the country in which they lived. Slavery only existed in a legal form, but not in their customs. Their delegates to the convention, therefore, had all voted against secession. They refused to acquiesce in it, and on the 22d of April they held a meeting at Clarksville for the purpose of sustaining the Federal compact which their colleagues wanted to compel them to break. In the mean time, volunteers were hurrying from all parts of the North; the danger which threatened