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...sent a telegram to our governor to
raise three regiments of infantry...
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...to be sent to assist in suppressing
the Southern Confederacy.
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Governor Letcher's answer is well
known to you, but perhaps not his words.
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His wire to Washington stated:
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"You have chosen to inaugurate civil war.
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Having done so, we will meet you
in a spirit as determined...
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...as the Lincoln administration
has exhibited toward the South."
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Two days later the Virginia legislature
were voting for secession.
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Just as we would not send any of our
soldiers to march in other states...
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...and tyrannize other people...
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...so will we never allow the armies
of others to march into our states...
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...and tyrannize our people.
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Like many of you, indeed most of you,
I've always been a Union man.
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It is not with joy or with a light heart
that many have welcomed secession.
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Had our neighbors to the North practiced
a less bellicose form of persuasion...
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...this day might not have come.
But that day has been thrust upon us...
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...like it was thrust upon our ancestors.
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The Lincoln administration required
us to raise three regiments.
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Tell them we have done so.
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Dismissed.
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Attention, company!
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- Good morning, sir.
- Reverend Pendleton.
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- How goes it with the artillery today?
- You're just in time for a christening.
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The men have decided to name the
howitzers: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.