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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 20: commencement of civil War. (search)
xtraordinary efforts of the conspirators at Richmond to crush the New organization, and bring the loyal people into subjection. A Legislature was elected, and they were summoned to a session at Wheeling on the 1st of July. 1861. soon after its assembling, it chose John S. Carlile and Waitman G. Willie to represent the restored Commonwealth in the Senate of the United States. in the course of time the long desired dismemberment of Virginia occurred. The Convention reassembled on the 20th of August, 1861. and passed an ordinance for the erection of a New State, in which Slavery was prohibited, to be called Kanawha, the name of its principal stream. This ordinance was submitted to the people of the counties represented in the Convention on the 24th of October ensuing, when the vote was almost unanimous in its favor. At a subsequent session of the Convention, on the 27th of November, the name was changed to West Virginia, and a State Constitution was formed. On the 3d of May foll