. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... ere, set fire to the buildings,and retreated into Pennsylvania. The Virginians extinguishedthe flames and secured a large quantity ofarms and equipments and the valuable ma-chinery for the manufacture of arms. Thecommandant of the navy yard at Portsmouth,upon the approach of the Virginians, madeno attempt to defend his post, but spiked thecannon, burned or sunk the war vessels lyingin the harbor, set fire to the buildings, andretreated with two war steamers.
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... ere, set fire to the buildings,and retreated into Pennsylvania. The Virginians extinguishedthe flames and secured a large quantity ofarms and equipments and the valuable ma-chinery for the manufacture of arms. Thecommandant of the navy yard at Portsmouth,upon the approach of the Virginians, madeno attempt to defend his post, but spiked thecannon, burned or sunk the war vessels lyingin the harbor, set fire to the buildings, andretreated with two war steamers. The navy yard was at once occupied by theVirginians, who secured nearly two thousand pieces of cannon, and an immense quantityof stores and munitions of all kinds. Thegovernors of the seceded Border States issuedcalls for volunteers immediately upon thewithdrawal of their States. Men came for-ward in such large numbers that arms couldnot be provided for all of them. Theprominent points of danger in Virginiawere occupied and fortified by the Statetroops ; but the control of the military af-fairs in all the Border States soon passed. FORT SUMTER IN 1861. into the hands of the Confederate govern-ment. As it was certain that the first operationsof the war would take place upon the bor-ders of Virginia, the city of Richmond wasmade the capital of the Confederate States,and on the twenty-first of May the Confed-erate government was removed to that city. The western part of the State of Virginiarefused to join the remainder of the State inits withdrawal from the Union. On theeleventh of June, l86i, the people of the 6;^ THE CIVIL WAR. western counties met in convention at Wheel-ing, declared their independence of the oldState, organized a State government, andproclaimed their intention to remain faithfulto the Union. The action of this conventionwas sustained by the Federal government, andon the twenty-sixth of November, i86i,another convention met at Wheeling, and
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