Jack of Harts

Once matters in Virginia stabilized, the Richmond Assembly ran most of northeastern Virginia from Arlington to Richmond, and the surrounding counties. Those were the counties most closely related to the Federal government in the District of Columbia. They spent a great deal of effort driving out, or simply killing, those who were not loyal to the “real” Virginia, and sent their forces into counties that had rebelled against them to confiscate valuable resources and/or people. They all belonged to the “real” Virginia after all. The other Virginia called them the District of Arlington, or The Rump, because they clearly weren’t Virginians anymore. Others called them East Virginia. That is the name that most places outside Virginia adopted as time went by, though none of the Virginias actually accept that name. Which can complicate matters concerning them.