Photo: Marker detail: "To Arms" broadside, May 30, 1861

Photographer: Courtesy West Virginia State Archives
Caption: Marker detail: "To Arms" broadside, May 30, 1861
Additional Description:
Men of Virginia!
Men of Kanawha!
To Arms!
The enemy has invaded your soil and threatens to overrun your country under the pretext of protection.

You cannot serve two masters. You have not the right to repudiate allegiance to your own State. Be not seduced by his sophistry or intimidated by his threats. Rise and strike for your firesides and altars. Repel the aggressors and preserve your honor and your rights. Rally in every neighborhood with or without arms. Organize and united with the sons of the soil to defend it. Report yourselves without delay to those nearest to you in military position. Come to the aide of your fathers, brothers and comrades in arms at this place who are here for the protection of your mothers, wives and sisters. Let every man who would uphold his rights, turn out with such arms as he may get and drive the invader back.

C. Q. Tompkins,
Col. Vn., Vol’s. Comdg.
Charleston, Kanawha, May 30, 1861
Submitted: November 28, 2018, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p455560
File Size: 0.337 Megabytes

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