Life in old Virginia . rt of Virginia, and two days thereafter, onApril 17, 1861, an Ordinance of Secession was passed. TheGovernor, John Letcher, thereupon issued a proclamationannouncing the accession of Virginia to the after this, a military league was formed of thepeople of Virginia with the Confederate States of theSouth. By this treaty, the latter were bound to march to theaid of Virginia against the invasion of the Federal Govern-ment. The first Federal troops to reach the Federal Capital,Washington, D. C, in response to President Lincolns call,were five companie
Life in old Virginia . rt of Virginia, and two days thereafter, onApril 17, 1861, an Ordinance of Secession was passed. TheGovernor, John Letcher, thereupon issued a proclamationannouncing the accession of Virginia to the after this, a military league was formed of thepeople of Virginia with the Confederate States of theSouth. By this treaty, the latter were bound to march to theaid of Virginia against the invasion of the Federal Govern-ment. The first Federal troops to reach the Federal Capital,Washington, D. C, in response to President Lincolns call,were five companies of Pennsylvanians, composed of five hun-dred and thirty troops, from Pottsville, Eeading, Lewistown,and Allentown. They reached Washington on the evening ofApril 18, 1861. The writer, then a lad of seventeen years ofage, a runaway from school, was one of the five hundred andthirty troops above referred to. On the evenings of April 18, 1861, the five hundred andthirty Pennsylvanians reached Washington from Harrisburg,. Carpet Bag of Reconstruction Days.
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