Seceding From Secession: The Civil War, Politics and the Creation of West Virginia (Eric J. Wittenberg, Edmund A. Sargus Jr., Penny L. Barrick - CH) Ed Bearss Civil War buffs are always

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Nearly one in three of those men ended up a casualty of that battle

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Seceding From Secession: The Civil War, Politics and the Creation of West Virginia (Eric J. Wittenberg, Edmund A. Sargus Jr., Penny L. Barrick - CH) Ed Bearss Civil War buffs are alwaysSeceding from Secession: The Civil War, Politics, and the Creation of West Virginia by Eric Wittenberg, Edmund Sargus, and Penny Barrick West Virginia was the child of the storm, concluded early Mountaineer historian and Civil War veteran, Maj. Theodore F. Lang. The northwestern third of the Commonwealth of Virginia finally broke away in 1863 to form the Unions 35th state. In Seceding from Secession: The Civil War, Politics, and the Creation of West