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African American Registry. “West Virginia Created by Secession from Southern Confederate State.” African American Registry. Accessed February 24, 2017. http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/west-virginia-created-secession-southern-confederate-state.
“A State of Convenience: The Creation of West Virginia.” West Virginia Archives and History. Accessed February 26, 2017. http://www.wvculture.org/history/statehood/statehoodtoc.html.
Education @ Library of Virginia. “Virginia Convention Votes for Secession on April 17, 1861.” Library of Virginia. Accessed February 24, 2017. http://edu.lva.virginia.gov/online_classroom/union_or_secession/unit/9.
Georgia’s Historic High Country Travel Association. “Second Wheeling Convention.” Georgia’s Blue and Gray Trail Presents America’s Civil War. Last Modified May 15, 2011. Accessed February 24, 2017. http://blueandgraytrail.com/event/Second_Wheeling_Convention
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Images
Header
Stephens, Abigail. Appalachian Mountain Sunbeams. October 1, 2016.
Causes
Colton, Joseph Hutchins. Colton’s Virginia [map]. New York: J.H. Colton. 1855. Accessed April 15th, 2017. https://www.loc.gov/resource/glva01.lva00086/.
Constitutional Conventions
Catlin, George. The Virginia Constitutional Convention. c1830. Wikimedia Commons. Accessed April 15, 2017. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1830VAConstConv01.jpg.
Reform and Secession
Brady, Mathew. View of Capitol, Richmond, Va. April, 1865. April, 1865. Wikimedia Commons, National Archives and Records Administration. Accessed April 19, 2017. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:View_of_Capitol,_Richmond,_Va._April,1865_-_NARA_-_529087.tif.
Clarksburg Convention
Brady, Mathew. John S. Carlile. c1855-1865. Wikimedia Commons, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Accessed April 21, 2017. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JCarlile.jpg.
The Wheeling Conventions
Brady, Mathew and Levin Corbin Handy. Hon. Arthur Inghram Boreman. c1860-1875. Wikimedia Commons, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Accessed April 21, 2017. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arthur_I._Boreman_-_Brady-Handy.jpg.
Political Profiles
John S. Carlile. West Virginia and Regional History Center, WVU Libraries. http://wvhistoryonview.org/catalog/wvulibraries:35128.
Ritchie, Alexander Hay. Major General Philip Henry Sheridan. c1860. Friend E. Clark Collection. West Virginia and Regional History Center, WVU Libraries. http://wvhistoryonview.org/catalog/wvulibraries:19684.
Francis H. Pierpont, Loyal Governor of Virginia, 1861-1868. West Virginia and Regional History Center, WVU Libraries. http://wvhistoryonview.org/catalog/wvulibraries:30686.
Peter G. Van Winkle, Wood County, W. Va. c1864. West Virginia and Regional History Center, WVU Libraries. http://wvhistoryonview.org/catalog/wvulibraries:44163 .
Waitman T. Willey of Morgantown, W. Va. West Virginia and Regional History Center, WVU Libraries. http://wvhistoryonview.org/catalog/wvulibraries:17626.
Abraham Lincoln. c1861. West Virginia and Regional History Center, WVU Libraries. http://wvhistoryonview.org/catalog/wvulibraries:35442.
The Restored Government of Virginia
Militaryace and Denelson83. Flag of West Virginia. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_West_Virginia.svg.
Legality of Secession
Constitutional Convention. Constitution of the United States. May 14, 1787-September 17, 1787. Wikimedia Commons, National Archives and Records Administration. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Constitution_of_the_United_States,_page_1.jpg.
Path to Statehood
Nyttend. West Virginia Independence Hall from southwest. May 13, 2013. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:West_Virginia_Independence_Hall_from_southwest.jpg.
Sanctity of the Union
Gardner, Alexander. Abraham Lincoln. November 8, 1863. Wikimedia Commons, Mead Art Museum. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abraham_Lincoln_O-77_matte_collodion_print.jpg.
Aftermath
Colton, Joseph Hutchins. Colton’s new topographical map of the states of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, showing also eastern Tennessee & parts of other adjoining states, all the fortifications, military stations, rail roads, common roads and other internal improvements. New York: J.H. Colton. 1864. Accessed March 22, 2017. https://www.loc.gov/resource/g37093.cw0048200/.
West Virginia’s Role in the Civil War
Rebels Destroying the Railroad, 1863. WHILBR – Western Maryland’s Historical Library. http://www.whilbr.org/jones-imboden/index.aspx.
Border Disputes
16thVa. Appalachia county secession vote map 1860-1861. March 6, 2015. CivilWarTalk. https://civilwartalk.com/threads/appalachia-county-secession-vote-map-1860-1861.110342/.
Reparations
Godot13 and National Banknote Company. A $1 Legal Tender Note from the Series 1862-1863 greenback issue. 1862-1863. Wikimedia Commons, National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US-$1-LT-1862-Fr-16c.jpg.
A Change in Congress
Falbisoner, Martin. US Capitol, west side. September 15, 2013. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Capitol_west_side.JPG.
About Us
Rankin, Kendall. Kendall Rankin. April 22, 2017.
Frempong, Leslie. Abigail Stephens. February 28, 2017.