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Colton’s map of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. Joseph Hutchins Colton, 1800-1893, Library of Congress.
Though it had become a state, West Virginia still belonged to a country in the midst of a Civil War. As a border state, it served as a battleground for the Confederacy and the Union. After the war there were also border disputes between West Virginia and Virginia, as well as conflict over reparations to the Union.