"All of this was as clear to McClellan as anything needed to be. He got, in addition, a slight nudge from General Scott. Late in May a detachment of Confederate infantry moved into the railroad junction town of Grafton, and Scott telegraphed McClellan to do something about this, if he could- to protect the railroad and also to "support the Union sentiment in western Virginia." From his headquarters in Cincinnati on May 26 he issued a proclamation, inviting mountaineer Virginians to "sever the connection that binds you to traitors" and to show the world that "the faith and loyalty so long boasted by the Old Dominion are still preserved in western Virginia.""
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Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury (1961), Garden City: Doubleday & Company, first edition hardcover, p. 406
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