William Lowther Jackson Jr. was an American lawyer, Democratic politician, slaveholder and jurist who became the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia prior to the American Civil War, and later fought in th
William Lowther Jackson
Jackson during the civil war.
The U.S. state of West Virginia was formed out of western Virginia and added to the Union as a direct result of the American Civil War, in which it became the only modern state to have declared its in
William Lowther Jackson
…Virginia in the American Civil War West Virginia in the American Civil War Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-8047-3641-1…
Views in and Around Martinsburg, Virginia by A. R. Waud (Harper's Weekly, December 3, 1864)
West Virginia delegate votes and signatures at the Richmond convention, April 17, 1861
October 24, 1861 county vote for West Virginia statehood
Confederate Memorial, Romney.