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Excerpt from Letter of Governor Peirpoint: To His Excellency the President and the Honorable Congress of the United States, on the Subject of Abuse of Military Power in the Command of General Butler in Virginia and North Carolina
In this spirit similar advice was given all over North western Virginia. The people rallied, a great meeting was called by both parties at Fairmont, the center of secessionists, on the first Monday in May. Both parties were there in their strength; both ?ags were ?ying; fist fights commenced before nine o'clock. By two, both parties had speakers on the stand; secesh in the court house, Union out of doors. Before four, the secesh attempted to break up the Union crowd, and the Union men whipped them in a fair fist fightof not less than eighty on a Side. This broke the spirit of secession in West Virginia.
The first Wheeling convention was called under the aus pices of the Hon. John S. Carlisle. The second was called, the State government reorganized and recognized by the Government of the United States as the government of Virginia, I think wisely and rightly. The restored govern ment put upward of eighteen thousand Union soldiers into the field during the first two years of the war. West Vir ginia has put in some three thousand since, in addition to which, a large number of the old troops have re-enlisted. These troops were as brave and as true as any who ever drew a trigger. The bones of many of them are now bleach ing on almost every battle field, from the Peninsula to Vicksburg.
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