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West Virginia is a mountainous, landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland to the northeast, Virginia to the southeast,
Thomas Lee, the first manager of the Ohio Company of Virginia
Harpers Ferry alternated between Confederate and Union rule eight times during the American Civil War, and was finally annexed by West Virginia.
Historical coat of arms of West Virginia (illustrated, 1876)
Votes by county in the October 1861 statehood vote
The Confederate States of America, also known as the Confederate States or the Confederacy, was a republic in the Southern United States from 1861 to 1865, unrecognized as a sovereign nation by either
West Virginia
…without putting it to popular vote. West Virginia abolished slavery by a gradual process and temporarily disenfranchised those who had fought for the Confederacy or held Confederate office. A 2010 analysis of a local stalagmite revealed that Native Americans were burning forests to clear land as early as 100…
The inauguration of Jefferson Davis in Montgomery, Alabama
10-cent U.S. 1861
20-cent C.S. 1863
Elias Boudinot, a Cherokee secessionist and Confederate Representative in the Indian Territory of present-day Oklahoma