From the Rockingham Register.
All Right Here!—No man to fight for Lincoln and the defense of his Union can be found in Rockingham.— We are a unit for the defence of our State and to resist to the death the aggressions of Lincoln’s hirelings.
Arming The Volunteers—The county court of Rockingham, on Tuesday last, appropriated the sum of $2,800 for the purpose of furnishing camp equipments, &c, for the volunteers of this county. Good! We always knew our noble old county would do her duty to the “brave boys’’ who are willing to defend their native soil and the hearthstones of their fathers.
P. S.—Since the above was written, the county court of Rockingham have been summoned here, to meet at 12 o’clock on Thursday, (yesterday,) for the purpose of increasing the subscription to our volunteers to $3,000 — The patriotic county court of Rockingham will do their duty by the brave fellows who are ready to enter the service of the State.
Unanimous For Resistance—The people of Rockingham, heretofore firm, honest Union men, after the exposure of the treachery of Lincoln have indignantly repudiated Unionism. He and his supporters have villianously imposed upon the honesty of a large portion of our people, by professing to pursue a course of peace towards the South, while at the same time he was preparing the engines of destruction which were to devastate the country. No people are more patriotic than ours; but when Black Republicanism looks for encouragement and support in its crusade against the South, it will look in vain. When Lincoln assails the South, a unanimous cry will go up from our people of resistance to the death.
The True Spirit—It would be impossible to describe the enthusiasm and joy of our citizens on hearing that Fort Sumter had surrendered. Our gallant ‘‘boys,” the Valley Guard, paraded at daylight on Monday morning and fired 100 guns in honor of the first victory obtained over Lincoln and his federal forces. The Register makes its best bow for the honor done us in the salute it gave us. We hope the Register will still prove true to the rights and the interests of ‘‘our own, our native land.”— God bless the brave and gallant boys who have exhibited such alacrity and promptitude in responding to the guns fired from Sumter!
There are none in the South so base as to be untrue to their own hearthstones and altars. Let us stand together, or perish in defence of our common liberties
Richmond Daily Whig, Richmond, VA, April 22, 1861
The Valley Guard
The Valley Guard, a volunteer militia company, was organized into the 10th Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment as Company G. The 10th Virginia fought in battles across the Virginia theater for the duration of the war, surrendering at Appomattox as part of Lee’s remaining forces.