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Good questions. And why call for 75,000 volunteers? That was taken as a threat of imminent invasion by southerners, including Lee and Jackson, who fought for Virginia against a foreign invader.

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Good questions. And why call for 75,000 volunteers? That was taken as a threat of imminent invasion by southerners, including Lee and Jackson, who fought for Virginia against a foreign invader.

To match the Confederates who already had 100,000 men in their army. Virginia had already been "invaded" by a foreign army when the Governor invited Confederate troops from Texas and other deep south states into his state over a month before they voted to seceed.