War is a city in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 690 at the 2020 census. War was incorporated in 1920 by the Circuit...
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The West Virginia coal wars (1912–1921), also known as the mine wars, arose out of a dispute between coal companies and miners. The West Virginia mine...
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Virginia, and formalized by West Virginia's admittance to the Union as a new state in 1863. West Virginia was one of five Civil War border states. During the...
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of West Virginia was formed out of western Virginia and added to the Union as a direct result of the American Civil War (see History of West Virginia),...
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population of 49,055. West Virginia was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863, and was a key border state during the American Civil War. It was the only state...
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War as the southern unionist 35th state. The first flags to represent West Virginia following statehood were battle flags utilized by West Virginia regiments...
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Tennessee, and Virginia. They are called the Upper South, in contrast to the Deep South. A new border state was created during the war, West Virginia, which was...
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Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 1,722 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Winchester, Virginia metropolitan area...
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being largely destroyed during the Civil War.: 10 Harpers Ferry is home to John Brown's Fort, West Virginia's most visited tourist site; the headquarters...
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Jefferson County were part of the new State of West Virginia. When the American Civil War started, Virginia seceded from the United States in 1861 over slavery...
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state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those...
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Charleston is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of West Virginia and the seat of Kanawha County. Located at the confluence of the Elk...
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West Virginia University (WVU) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Morgantown, West Virginia, United States. Its other...
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West Virginia is a state located in the Southern United States. There are 232 municipalities. Largest municipalities in West Virginia by population Charleston...
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County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 18,773 at the 2020 census, making Martinsburg the largest city in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia...
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of Virginia became a prominent part of the Confederacy when it joined during the American Civil War. As a Southern slave-holding state, Virginia held...
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West Virginia, which seceded from Virginia to join the Union, provided the following units to the Union Army during the American Civil War. Units raised...
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Pennsylvania and Virginia, and later grew to become Virginia's largest city west of the Appalachians. During the American Civil War, Wheeling was the...
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Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia), the District of Columbia, and six territories (Arizona Territory...
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West Virginia State University (WVSU) is a public historically black, land-grant university in Institute, West Virginia. Founded in 1891 as the West Virginia...
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Clarksburg is a city in and the county seat of Harrison County, West Virginia, United States, in the north-central region of the state. The population...
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Problems, which provided invaluable experience for the coming war in the Pacific. West Virginia was moored on Battleship Row on the morning of 7 December...
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The governor of West Virginia is the head of government of West Virginia and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. The governor has a...
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Wayne counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The seat of Cabell County, the city is located in SW West Virginia at the confluence of the Ohio and...
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Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States, situated along the Monongahela River. The most populous city in North Central West Virginia and the third-most...
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The West Virginia Mountaineers football team represents West Virginia University (also referred to as WVU) in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS)...
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County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 9,325 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Clarksburg micropolitan area in North Central West Virginia...
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Moorefield is a town and the county seat of Hardy County, West Virginia, United States. It is located at the confluence of the South Branch Potomac River...
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Piedmont is a town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States. It is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV metropolitan statistical area. The population...
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Battle of Blair Mountain (redirect from Red Neck War)
uprising since the American Civil War. The conflict occurred in Logan County, West Virginia, as part of the Coal Wars, a series of early-20th-century labor...
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