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Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.Onward March of Secession — Old Botetourtthrowing flags to the breeze. Fincastle, Botetourt county, Va.,April 12th, 1861.
The secession move is making rapid progress among us. At the election for delegates to the Convention our county gave a large majority for the Union ticket, and if the question was now put to the voters of Botetourt, I believe there would be five secessionists to one Union man in the county.
In front of our Court-House there was raised and still stands, one of the prettiest secession flags in the State, it being fifteen feet long and about 6 feet wide.
Upon one side is beautifully painted Virginia's coat of arms, on the other seven stars, and the motto "Union with our Southern sisters."
There has been thrown to the breeze at least half a dozen respectable sized flags in our town from private residences--one at our Male and one at our Female Academies.
This afternoon was set apart for the raising of an