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A State of Convenience: The Creation of West Virginia
West Virginia Statehood
A Bit of History: Recollections of the Richmond Convention
Virginia Ordinance of Secession
Voting Results on the Virginia Ordinance of Secession
Clarksburg Convention
First Wheeling Convention
Proceedings of the First Wheeling Convention
Delegates to the First Wheeling Convention
"Recollections and Narative [sic] of a Member of the May Convention of 1861..."
Proceedings of the Second Wheeling Convention, First Session
Delegates to the Second Wheeling Convention
A Declaration of the People of West Virginia
An Ordinance for the Re-Organization of the State Government
Proceedings of the Legislature of the Reorganized Government of Virginia
Legislators for the Reorganized Government of Virginia
Wheeling Intelligencer Editorial on Election of Waitman Willey and John Carlile as Senators from Virginia
US Senate Debate on Acceptance of Waitman Willey and John Carlile As Senators From Virginia
Proceedings of the Second Wheeling Convention, Second Session
First Statehood Referendum
"Statehood For West Virginia: An Illegal Act?"
Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention
What's In A Name? The Naming of West Virginia
"The Makers of West Virginia"
Delegates to the Constitutional Convention
First West Virginia Constitution
US Senate Debate on West Virginia statehood
Obituary of Jacob Beeson Blair
Granville Parker's Account of Jacob Beeson Blair's Role In Lincoln's Approval of the Statehood Bill
Accounts of Lincoln's Signing of the Statehood Bill by Waitman T. Willey and Jacob Beeson Blair
Lincoln Approves the Statehood Bill
Opinion of Abraham Lincoln on the Admission of West Virginia
"Lincoln and West Virginia Statehood"
"Lincoln and the Vast Question of West Virginia"
Lincoln's Statehood Proclamation
Obituary of Arthur Boreman
"Senator Willey Dead"
"Laid To Rest: Last Rites are Performed Over Senator Willey"
Death of statehood leader & U.S. Senator Peter G. Van Winkle
Obituary of Peter G. Van Winkle
Sketch of the Life of Peter G. Van Winkle
Speech of Hon. P. G. Van Winkle on the Reorganization of Virginia and Admission of West Virginia
"Granville D. Hall, Second State Secretary, Stricken At Age Of 96"
Letter From Granville Hall To Virgil Lewis (Virgil Lewis Papers, Ar1753)
Biography of Chester D. Hubbard
"A Good Man Gone" (Chester D. Hubbard)
Letter, C. D. Hubbard to G. W. Brown, 11 January 1867 (Ar382, Box 32)
West Virginia Statehood Referendum
Statehood Images


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