Seceding from Secession: The Civil War, Politics, and the Creation of West Virginia by Penny L. Barrick, Eric J. Wittenberg, Edmund A. Sargus

Seceding from Secession: The Civil War, Politics, and the Creation of West Virginia

Penny L. Barrick, Eric J. Wittenberg, Edmund A. Sargus

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"West Virginia was the child of the storm," concluded early Mountaineer historian and Civil War veteran, Maj. Theodore F. Lang. The northwestern third of the Commonwealth of Virginia finally broke away in 1863 to form the Union's 35th state. In Se...

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