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On April 15, 1861, in instant response to Abraham Lincoln’s first call, brave men formed the intrepid Home Guards and, unaided, held in check the forces of Wise, Lee, and Jackson until Federal armies arrived and drove the Confederates across the Alleghenies, making possible the creation of the State of West Virginia. The dedication also honors devoted women who helped save West Virginia to the Union, and those who, as incomparable scouts and riflemen, gave themselves to the nation and with dauntless courage and sagacity assisted in assuring to mankind that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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Charleston, West Virginia · United States
