I would refer you to Richard Lowe's fine work_Republicans and
Reconstruction in Virginia, 1856-1870_and defer to Professor Lowe who is
on this list to answer the question definitively. I would think that the
writ of the Pierpont government followed the lines of federal control in
eastern Virginia. I don't think, however, it was ever effectively in
control in Loudoun--for a good portion of the time, there was martial
law or a military provost marshal.

Jim Hershman

Edward Roach wrote:

>Colleagues:
> In investigating the history of southeastern Prince William County (the
>region around Dumfries and the Quantico Marine base, not Manassas) and its
>place in northern Virginia during the Civil War era, I encounter references
>to Governor Francis Pierpont's Restored Government, the Unionist government
>organized after the secession of the Richmond government from the United
>States in 1861.  Pierpont's government exercised what authority it had first
>from Wheeling, and, after West Virginia's statehood in 1863, from
>Alexandria.  Secondary sources note that the authority of Pierpont's
>government didn't extend very far geographically after its move to
>Alexandria; it wielded various degrees of power on the eastern shore, in
>Norfolk and Portsmouth, and in counties around Alexandria (which I infer to
>mean today's Arlington County and the city of Alexandria).  However, I have
>not found specific information as to which northern Virginia felt the reach
>of Pierpont's administration.  Just how far into northern Virginia was
>Pierpont's government able to consistently project authority?  Did Fairfax
>County send delegates to the state assemblies meeting in Alexandria? Did
>Loudon or Prince William?  Or were these counties a borderland of sorts
>between Confederate Virginia and U.S.-held territories?
>
>Edward Roach
>Historian, Prince William Forest Park
>National Park Service Servicewide Intake Class of 2003
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