 These areas would be administered by the Restored Government of Virginia, with the northwestern counties later becoming the new state of West Virginia.In April 1865, Francis Pierpont and the Restored Government of Virginia moved to Richmond.In 1894, Virginian and former Confederate soldier John S. Mosby, reflecting back on his role in the war, stated in a letter to friend that "I've always understood that we went to war on account of the thing we quarreled with the North about.