When news of Concord and Lexington finally trickled through to upper Virginia, it found the men of her hills and mountains in grim readiness; and when, soon after, Henry's flaming words came to them, they were ready and eager to make those words good with their lives.
Beveridge describes the readiness of Virginia's men to respond to the call for action after the battles of Concord and Lexington.
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