. Elwood's stories of the old Ringgold Cavalry, 1847-1865 [electronic resource]: the first three year cavalry of the Civil War : with introduction by the Rev. Ryland . com-mission from Abraham Lincoln, to fall in the war. It will be remembered that the loyal people of WesternVirginia had prevailed upon President Lincoln to appointFrancis Pierpont to act as governor of Virginia until therecould be an election. He was at once installed and provedhimself a man worthy of the public trust. He was a far-seeing LTnion man, and was one of the first men to foreseethe urgent need of cavalry in the
. Elwood's stories of the old Ringgold Cavalry, 1847-1865 [electronic resource]: the first three year cavalry of the Civil War : with introduction by the Rev. Ryland . com-mission from Abraham Lincoln, to fall in the war. It will be remembered that the loyal people of WesternVirginia had prevailed upon President Lincoln to appointFrancis Pierpont to act as governor of Virginia until therecould be an election. He was at once installed and provedhimself a man worthy of the public trust. He was a far-seeing LTnion man, and was one of the first men to foreseethe urgent need of cavalry in the mountain districts ofWest Virginia. He saw that it was impossible to get alongwithout such companies. The cavalry boys all had a warmfriend in Francis H. Pierpont. The news that the Einggold cavalry was to go to thefront created no small stir in the neighborhood of Bealls-ville; indeed this fact was the talk of the country for milesaround As soon as Captain Keys got the word that hiscommand was to go to the front he called all the membersof the company together to see whether all could go. Someof the members had large families to care for, and they EARLY HISTORY 21. Pi < OH E* Eh < PQ Eh ffi &H PhP. Ph o H Eh <^ffl 22 ELWOODS STORIES felt that it would not be right for them to go. Hand billswere printed advertising for any number of good youngmen to go to the front. Some members of the companypaid as high as $500 and others as high as $1,000 for asubstitute. The ranks were soon filled with young menfrom the very best families of Washington, Greene andFayette counties, and the Ringgold cavalry was in readi-ness to go to the scenes of war at Grafton. Of the original company, composed of over fifty men,less than a dozen went to the front. As we write nearlyfifty-three years have passed since these brave boys leftfor the war. Of the seventy men who left Beallsville, sofar as the writer knows, only nineteen are still living. Ofthe company as it was organizd in 1847, there i
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