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The Daily Dispatch: April 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
ght and conquer. While waiting for the train, the University soldiers stood for three hours in unbroken ranks, every one panting to meet the foe. Speeches were delivered to perhaps fifteen hundred persons assembled at the depot, by Col. R. R. Prentis, and Prof. Holmes, of the University, Hon. S. F. Leake, of Charlottesville, and Mr. Berry, of Alexandria. --When Mr. Leake said,"Fellow-citizens of the Confederate States of the South, " a shout went up such as never before was heard in this vicinity. Last night a Home Guard was formed in town, of sixty persons over 45 years of age--Col. Prentis elected Captain, A. P. Abell, Lieutenant. A fine military corps was also formed at the University, of eighty students, who elected Professor Bledsoe Captain. Virginia is now where she ought to have been four months since — out of the Union. May God protect and bless the Common wealth of Virginia, and cause her speedily to unite with the Confederate States of the South. Monticello.