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sented in the several skirmishes and some important conflicts, and other defeated movements, in the Northwestern part of Virginia. In this region, beginning with the earliest and most culpable neglect by our State authorities, by which the enemy was permitted to take and keep possession of the two great railroads entering that region from the Ohio — through the consequent disastrous defeats of our forces under the imbecile Porterfield, and still worse under the brave and capable Pegram and Garnett — to the latest event, the unavoidable retreat of Gen. Wise--all have been one unchanging series of disasters. And various in kind as have been these disasters, and their immediate or special causes, there is one great and abiding cause for all — in the disaffection of a large portion of the residents to the Southern cause, and the natural features of the country, which enable the zealous and active residents successfully to oppose and to overcome any inactive military force to which they <