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Spirit of our soldiers.
At a meeting of the Twenty-sixth Virginia cavalry, held this day, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted:
Whereas, Abraham Lincoln, representative of the United States Government, regardless of the commonest dictates of humanity in the late interview with our commissioners, has indicated a fixed purpose and design to place in bondage the free and sovereign States of this Confederacy, and thereby reduce to absolute vassalage the citizens of the same; and whereas, he predicts his ability to carry out his fiendish purposes upon the presumed discontent in our army; therefore be it
1. "Resolved, That we, the Twenty-sixth regiment Virginia cavalry, Jackson's brigade, send greeting to our comrades in arms throughout the Confederacy our firm and inflexible determination to accept the gage of battle tendered by the Northern hirelings, and, with a firm reliance upon Almighty God, never, never to lay down our arms until we have secured the pr