West Virginia Formation Inside View - VA & WV genealogy

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An Inside View
Of The
Formation of the State of
West Virginia
With Character Sketches of Pioneers of that Movement
By William P. Willey, 1901
290 Pages, indexed, searchable
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“In 1861, as the
United States
itself became massively divided over regional issues, leading to the American Civil War
(1861-1865), the western regions of
Virginia
split with the eastern portion politically, and the two were never reconciled
as a single state again. In 1863, the western region was admitted to the Union as a new separate state, initially planned
to be called the State of
Kanawha
, but ultimately named
West Virginia
.”
“The severance of
West Virginia
from the mother State was
a tragic event in the history of our Civil War.
Virginia
was
the oldest and proudest State in the
Union
. Her soil was
"sacred soil."' It had been the theater of many of the historic
events in the childhood of our Republic, from the settlement at
Jamestown
to the surrender at
Yorktown
. It had furnished the
explorers of our new country, the warriors to win its independence, the statesmen to build its government, it was
"the Mother of Presidents." Its population were a peculiar people. They gloried in the prestige of their State. There
was more State pride in
Virginia
than in any of the States. Every man was proud to call himself a Virginian and trace
his ancestry to the "First Families."
CHAPTER II. The Two
Virginias
Before Divorce 5
CHAPTER III. The Preliminary Steps to Take Virginia Out of
THE Federal Union 16
CHAPTER IV. The Secession Convention 36
CHAPTER V. Done Behind Closed Doors -11
CHAPTER VI. Aftermath of the Secession Convention 51
CHAPTER VII. The "Mass Convention" at
Wheeling
57
CHAPTER VIII. Reorganizing the
Virginia
State
Government 69
CHAPTER IX. The Restored Government of
Virginia
in Opera-
tion 76
CHAPTEE X. Laying the Foundation of a New State 80
Laying the Foundation of a
Xew
State
- - 80
CHAPTER XI Making a Constitution for the
Xew
State
- - 88
CHAPTER XII. The New State Issue in Congress _ - - 98
CHAPTER XIII The New State Bill in the Hands of President
Lincoln
-------- 136
CHAPTER XIV. The Constitutional Convention Reconvened on
the "Willey Amendment."- - - . - 142
CHAPTER XV. The State of
West Virginia
an Independent Sovereignty
-------- 170
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