...t seems to me that it would be well for them to act with western Virginia, and hold elections by proclamation of the governor. On November 15th, the day after his expedition started, Dix wrote to President Lincoln , enclosing a copy of his proclamation to the people of Accomac and Northampton, with the hope that what he had done would meet with his approbation; and stated that he had sent 4,500 men on this expe...