Excerpt from Ohio Militia and the West Virginia Campaign, 1861: Address of General Carrington, to Army of West Virginia, at Marietta, Ohio, Sept, 10, 1870
Responsive to "request of the Society of the Army of West Virginia, that a full statement of the part borne by the Militia of Ohio in the rescue of West Virginia in 1861, be furnished by Col. Henry B. Carrington, U. S. A., at the Reunion of the Society, at Mariera, Ohio, Sept. 19, 1879."
Comrades of the Army of West Virginia:
It is well to save for some future historian the record of all facts which marked the outbreak of the American Rebellion. There are times when noiseless work does much to prepare and ensure that more visible and emphatic action which fixes the destiny of a nation or race. Your society aims to secure and record all facts which gave to West Virginia its independence. The national record deals chiefly with the Federal call upon the States for troops and the conduct of those troops. The rescue of West Virginia from the first grasp of invasion has less distinctive mention, because the troops which first entered the field were not originally on the Roll of United States volunteers, but were Militia of Ohio. They did indeed quite generally re-enlist in the national service, and the government eventually recognized their early organization; but there was a brief period of grave and determining value, in which their action was as significant as when the campaign of 1861 matured and became a grand factor in the operations of the war.
With all credit to those who have compiled the Ohio war record, it is not strictly true that the war burst upon Ohio without either warning or preparation; nor that the excitement of the hour so confused her State officials that an excess of accepted troops embarrassed the real issue. The very organization of a force beyond the limits of the call rendered possible its ultimate movement into West Virginia before the United States Volunteers could be armed and equipped for active service. Neither was the pressure greater than in Indiana, of which its official historian writes: "The Governor, finding it impossible 10 restrain the tide of volunteers within the narrow limits of the three months call, tendered additional regiments. Companies came without orders, or rather in defiance of orders, in the hope that they could be received, or that a second call would be at once made. At that time communication with Washington by telegraph had been cut off."
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