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West Virginia, Creation of

West Virginia was recognized by the U.S. government as the thirty-fifth state on June 20, 1863, an event that was the culmination of more than sixty years of heated sectional politics and legislative maneuverings. From the first political rumblings of new-state advocates at the turn of the nineteenth century through the formative sessions of the Wheeling conventions held from 1861 until 1863, the creation of West Virginia was a complex and contentious proc. . .

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Walker–Westmoreland

Walker, Maggie Lena (1864–1934)
Walker, Wyatt Tee (1929–2018)
Washington College during the Civil War
Washington, Booker T. (1856–1915)
Washington, George (1732–1799)
Washington, George and Slavery
Washington, John M. (1838–1918)
Watson, John (d. December 6, 1869)
Weather during the Civil War
Weldon Railroad, Battle of the
Wells, Henry Horatio (1823–1900)
West Virginia, Creation of
West, Thomas, twelfth baron De La Warr (1576–1618)
Westmoreland Slave Plot (1687)

Whig–Winchester

Whig Party in Virginia
White, John (d. 1593)
Wilder, Lawrence Douglas (1931– )
Wilderness during the Civil War, The
Wilderness, Battle of the
Willey, Waitman T. (1811–1900)
William and Mary Review
Williamsburg during the Colonial Period
Williamsburg, The Battle of
Willoughby, Westel (1830–1897)
Wilson, Edith Bolling Galt (1872–1961)
Wilson, Joseph T. (1837–1890)
Wilson, Woodrow (1856–1924)
Winchester during the Civil War

Winder–Wythe

Winder, John H. (1800–1865)
Wingfield, Edward Maria (1550–1631)
Wise, Henry A. (1806–1876)
Wise, John S. (1846–1913)
Witchcraft in Colonial Virginia
Woman Suffrage in Virginia
Women during the Civil War
Women in Colonial Virginia
Woodson, Carter G. (1875–1950)
Wreck of the Old 97
Wythe, George (1726 or 1727–1806)
Wythe, The Death of George (1806)

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