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Headquarters (Washington, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
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Chapter 4:
The campaign in Western Virginia in 1861
The guns which opened upon Fort Sumter on the memorable 12th of April, 1861, did not merely crumble the walls of that fortress, but they also shattered all hopes of a peaceful solution of the problems which were then before the country.
Civil war was now a sad necessity.
The President's proclamation of the 15th called forth the militia for objects entirely lawful and constitutional; and it was responded to with a patriotic fervor which melted down all previously existing party lines.
This uprising of a great people, as it was well termed by a foreign writer, was a kindling and noble spectacle.
The heart of the whole land throbbed like the heart of one.
But we cannot now look back upon that brilliant and burning enthusiasm without a touch of sadness, because there was mingled with it so much ignorance, not merely of the magnitude of the contest before us, but of the — nature of war itself.
The spirited young men w
West Point (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
Cheat River (United States) (search for this): chapter 4
Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 4
Alleghany Mountains (United States) (search for this): chapter 4