Accounts from the country represent the war spirit in the interior of
Virginia as most intense and enthusiastic.
The whole population is in arms, and the only difficulty is in restraining them till the proper moment arrives.
Never, even in the war of the Revolution, was there anything approaching the unanimity and the deep and determined character of the war spirit in
Virginia.
The general disposition is not to stand on the defensive, but to make the enemy pay at his own fireside the cost of his ferocity.
There are means of reaching the seaboard and interior cities of the North and West of which they little dream.
