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• Battle of White Sulphur Springs

  In the summer of 1863, Confederate forces reoccupied "Lewisburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1369 and began probing toward Charleston. The new state of West Virginia had just been created, and in August Union forces were dispatched …

• Clarksburg Exponent Telegram

  … The _Telegram_ was the older paper, originating as the _National Telegraph_ in the Civil War era. It was founded December 27, … West Virginia statehood movement. When Northcott departed for war service Carlile renamed the newspaper _Patriot_. …

• Wild Turkey

  … forested areas with mature food-producing trees such as oaks, beech, and black cherry. Following the Civil War, the wild turkey population declined drastically due largely to habitat destruction, with the logging of …

• Ku Klux Klan

  … Klan originated in the South following the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193, seeking to reestablish and maintain … order officially disbanded. The years after World War II were bleak for Klan recruiters in …

• Willey Amendment

  … to senators wishing to eliminate slavery, a concept for which they felt the North was fighting the Civil War. Willey then managed to strike a compromise that was acceptable to a majority. The Willey Amendment to the …

• Waitman Willey

  … our wives and children to the ravages of civil war?’’ "Virginia seceded":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2436 nonetheless, and … hostility to the poor Negro?’’ he asked. ‘‘In war we send him to the battlefront, in …

• Labor History

  … ;Paint Creek-Cabin Creek mine war":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … of 1912–13; the Mingo mine wars of 1919–21; and the … a powerful weapon for their war against organized labor. With the … in the CIO and the civil rights movement. Business and government …

• Williams River

  … it comes from William Ewing, a Revolutionary War veteran, who lived near Buckeye in … born in 1892. The Hammons family settled on the river before the Civil War, and in the 1960s and … coal, were developed. In the post-Civil War period, the "timber" …

• Daniel Lamb

  … its legislature from 1863 to 1867. After the Civil War, Lamb opposed the implementation of ‘‘test oaths’’ to prevent former Confederates from voting … 1711. Lamb resumed his law practice after the Civil War and followed that career until his …

• Claymont Court

  … promptly rebuilt the interior. Records show that the entire Washington clan lived at Claymont during the Civil War. In 1870, Bushrod Corbin Washington’s grandson advertised the mansion for sale, and that branch …

• William Lyne Wilson

  … study at the University of Virginia, he joined the Confederate army. After serving throughout the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193, Wilson became professor of Latin at Columbian College, …

• Alexander Scott Withers

  … ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1811 in 1861. A supporter of the Unionist cause during the Civil War, he was selected as a delegate to the "First Wheeling Convention":https://www.wvencyclopedia. …

• Women’s Lives

  … of school districts, female teachers who married were required to resign their positions, a practice that persisted until World War II. Moreover, until the last decades of the 20th century women faced severe discrimination in more prestigious and lucrative …

• Coal River Navigation Company

  … Navigation Company and hired the future Civil War general, "William S. Rosecrans":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … doubled. With the start of the Civil War, navigation on the river … feet above flood stage. After the war the new state of West …

• Linsly School

  … first state "capitol":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/947 until 1870. Following the Civil War, the school faced serious financial difficulties, but under the leadership of John Birch, principal …

• Literature

  … the United States_ (1826). Black essayist and Civil War officer "Martin Delany": … _History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of Western Virginia_ (1851) by & … Even_ (1952). It was the post-war period, however, that occasioned the first …

• Locks and Dams

  … River before and shortly after the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … crib structures was abandoned after the Civil War. The "Big Sandy River& … to stimulate economic growth. After the Civil War, the federal government acquired the …

• Colonial Dames of America

  … property of Col. George Smith Patton in 1858. Following the colonel’s demise at Winchester during the Civil War, his widow returned to California. The Patton line later included Gen. George Patton of World War II fame.

• Malden

  … .org/articles/168 from 1810 until after the Civil War. "Daniel Boone":http://www. … is not known. African-American families, well before the Civil War, organized a Baptist congregation in 1852. Gen. Lewis Ruffner helped finance construction of …

• Maps, Atlases, and Gazetteers

  … Virginia Board of Public Works between 1815 and the Civil War. That series includes the excellent maps of Virginia … to the state’s natural resources. Apparently there were no Virginia atlases before the Civil War. The first West Virginia atlas (White’s) …

• Congressional Representation

  … convened in the middle of the Civil War on December 7, 1863. … born at the time of the Civil War. The northern Ohio Valley cities … from the mid-1840s to the Civil War. In the early years … to the Republican Party. After the Civil War, most of West Virginia’s …

• Marion County

  … end of the "French and Indian War":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … January 14, 1842, and named after Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion. Middletown was chosen … place of strategic importance during the Civil War and preparing the way for …

• Marsh Wheeling Stogies

  … them was a cottage industry in Wheeling until well after the Civil War. One of the cigar makers … as machine operators, especially during World War II. Marsh employed 600 workers, its … decline in the market after the war, Marsh soon became the only large …

• Alexander Martin

  … the Fourth Street Church in Wheeling. During the Civil War Martin was West Virginia president of the Christian Commission, a social services agency working to relieve the hardships of war. Martin was a guiding influence in the passage …

• Constitution of 1851

  … longstanding sectional differences within the Commonwealth of Virginia—though not, as it proved, progress enough to withstand the coming crisis of the Civil War.