West Virginia was admitted to theUnion on June 20, 1863, and was a keyborder state duringthe American Civil War. It separated fromVirginia and was one of two states (along withNevada) admitted to the Union during the Civil War. Some of its residents held slaves, but most were propertied farmers, and the delegates provided for the gradual abolition of slavery in the new state constitution. The state legislature abolished slavery in the state, and at the same time ratified the13th Amendment abolishing slavery nationally on February 3, 1865.
Adamle grew up inCleveland, Ohio, and was a star fullback on hisCollinwood High School football team. He attendedOhio State University in 1942, but his college career was cut short byWorld War II. After a stint in theUnited States Army Air Force, Adamle returned to finish his education at Ohio State in 1946. He soon dropped out of school, however, and joined the Browns. Cleveland won AAFC championships in each of Adamle's first three years, after which the league folded and the Browns were absorbed by the more established NFL. Cleveland continued to succeed in the NFL, winning the1950 championship and advancing to the1951 championship but losing to theLos Angeles Rams. Adamle left the Browns after the 1951 season to pursue a medical degree, but he came out of retirement briefly in 1954 as the Browns won anotherNFL championship. (Full article...)
TheU.S. state ofWest Virginia was formed out of westernVirginia and added to theUnion as a direct result of theAmerican Civil War (seeHistory of West Virginia), in which it became the only modern state to have declared its independence from the Confederacy. In the summer of 1861, Union troops, which included a number of newly formed Western Virginia regiments, under GeneralGeorge McClellan drove offConfederate troops under GeneralRobert E. Lee at theBattle of Philippi inBarbour County. This essentially freed Unionists in the northwestern counties of Virginia to form afunctioning government of their own as a result of theWheeling Convention. Before the admission of West Virginia as a state, the government in Wheeling formally claimed jurisdiction over all of Virginia, although from its creation it was firmly committed to the formation of a separate state.
After Lee's departure, western Virginia continued to be a target of Confederate raids. Both the Confederate and state governments in Richmond refused to recognize the creation of the new state in 1863, and thus for the duration of the war the Confederacy regarded its own military offensives within West Virginia not as invasion but rather as an effort to liberate what it considered to be enemy-occupied territory administered by an illegitimate government in Wheeling. Nevertheless, due to its increasingly precarious military position and desperate shortage of resources, Confederate military actions in what it continued to regard as "western Virginia" focused less on reconquest as opposed to both on supplying the Confederate Army with provisions as well as attacking the vitalBaltimore and Ohio Railroad that linked the northeast with the Midwest, as exemplified in theJones-Imboden Raid.Guerrilla warfare also gripped the new state, especially in theAllegheny Mountaincounties to the east, where loyalties were much more divided than in the solidly Unionist northwest part of the state. Despite this, the Confederacy was never able to seriously threaten the Unionists' overall control of West Virginia. (Full article...)
Image 7West Virginia population density 2020 (fromWest Virginia)
Image 8Map of Virginia dated June 13, 1861, featuring the percentage of slave population within each county at the 1860 census and the proposed state of Kanawha (fromWest Virginia)
... thatJames Dillon Armstrong was a Virginia state senator, a delegate to West Virginia's constitutional convention, and a circuit court judge while serving for more than 43 years as aPresbyterian church elder?
... thatBabydog is "a fixture in West Virginia politics"?
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