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...

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...

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...

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),...

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...

War as the southern unionist 35th state. The first flags to represent West Virginia following statehood were battle flags utilized by West Virginia regiments...

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...

Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 1,722 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Winchester, Virginia metropolitan area...

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...

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...

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...

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...

West Virginia University (WVU) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Morgantown, West Virginia, United States. Its other...

West Virginia is a state located in the Southern United States. There are 232 municipalities. Largest municipalities in West Virginia by population Charleston...

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...

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...

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...

Pennsylvania and Virginia, and later grew to become Virginia's largest city west of the Appalachians. During the American Civil War, Wheeling was the...

Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia), the District of Columbia, and six territories (Arizona Territory...

West Virginia State University (WVSU) is a public historically black, land-grant university in Institute, West Virginia. Founded in 1891 as the West Virginia...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States, situated along the Monongahela River. The most populous city in North Central West Virginia and the third-most...

The West Virginia Mountaineers football team represents West Virginia University (also referred to as WVU) in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS)...

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...

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...

Piedmont is a town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States. It is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV metropolitan statistical area. The population...

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...