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Confederate History...West Virginia formed 1863 anti-slavery, by Allen C. Guelzo

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And why is Virginia's governor celebrating secession, when 31 of Virginia's westernmost counties in 1861 balked at joining the Confederacy and formed, first, a pro-Union government-in-exile, and then a completely new state of West Virginia in 1863?

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