Confederate forces were not warmly welcomed in areas of Virginia that would subsequently form the state of West Virginia. Tensions between the citizens of Charleston and the occupying forces of Major General William Loring can be detected in this General Order of 1862, specifically relating to the use of Confederate notes. The depreciation of Confederate currency was already well underway in the second year of the war and shopkeepers could not have been happy to accept the increasingly worthless paper money as legal tender. The lack of a sound currency would bedevil the South for the entire conflict.