VIRGINIA HAS
SECEDED FROM THE UNION!
Yes, to-day the
Convention passed the Ordinance
of Secession, though some of our best men signed it under protest, and some
did not sign it at all. The excitement has quietly died away; other and
weightier matters than parading the streets and burning tar-barrels now occupy
the Southern people. Stern preparations for meeting the impending struggle are
seen on every hand. Recruits are rapidly filling up our volunteer
organizations, and soon old Virginia will be in condition to enter
the arena of war. To-day I re-connected myself with the Richmond Howitzers,
commanded by Captain George W. Randolph, having resigned my membership in that
command soon after the "John Brown raid." Its Lieutenants are J. C.
Shields, of the Richmond Whig, and John Thompson Brown, a prominent lawyer of
this city. Captain Randolph bore an important part in the Convention, and
always supported the Southern cause, though never an extremist in his views.
Our numbers are rapidly increasing, and we expect soon to form a battalion with
Captain Randolph as Major.
SOURCE: William S.
White, A Diary of the War; or
What I Saw of It, p. 91
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