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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 2 (search)
e places and property of the Federal Government. But it was soon manifest that this stipulation was destined to be a nullity in face of the swift—advancing realities of war. Virginia immediately threw herself into an attitude of defence. Governor Letcher issued a proclamation calling out the militia of the State, and Colonel Robert E. Lee was appointed major-general and commander of the Virginia forces. More than this: the Convention having, on the 24th of April, decreed that pending the powhose walls he was quite unknown, and within which he was marked only for his personal eccentricities, stern puritanism, and inflexible discipline. Upon the secession of Virginia, Professor Jackson resigned his chair, and being appointed by Governor Letcher to a colonelcy in the Virginia line, he was immediately sent forward to command the Confederate troops at Harper's Ferry. About the time, however, that Bonham was replaced by Beauregard, the command of the force at Harper's Ferry, which bor
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, Index. (search)
is purpose to abandon Petersburg and Richmond, 603; hopes of escape, and junction with Johnston, 605; final retreat—see Retreat; correspondence with Grant on surrender, 615; final surrender of his army, 618. Leesburg—see Ball's Bluff. Letcher, Governor, of Virginia, calls for State militia, 26. Lincoln, President, calls for troops, 14, 29, 30; correspondence with Mc-Clellan on movement on Manassas, 70; despondent saying at the close of 1861, 78; consultation with Generals McDowell and justifiable desolations by armies, 560. Valley of Humiliation, the Shenandoah Valley called, 318. Virginia, her vote to secede, 13; the theatre of the war, 13, 15, 18; river and mountain defensive systems of, 19; preparations for war—--Governor Letcher's call for, 26; first entered by the Federal army (for further—see Manassas and subsequent campaigns), 30; winter operations, difficulties of, 73; see also West Virginia. Wadsworth, General, the death of at the Wilderness, 434. Wallac