West Virginia did not exist as a separate state during the War of 1812. It didn't become a state until the Civil War.
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That was West Virginia, which sceded from Virginia.
Virginia was the confederate state that was primarily the battleground in the civil war in the west. IMPROVEMENT. Tennessee was the primary battleground of the Civil War in the West.
They are directly related. No Civil War, no secesion and there would be no West Virginia. Maybe,
West Virginia did not exist as a separate state during the War of 1812. It didn't become a state until the Civil War.
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West Virginia was once part of Virginia. When Virginia declared secession from the United States to become part of the Confederacy, the counties in northwestern Virginia voted to secede from Virginia and remain loyal to the United States. That area of Virginia became West Virginia. West Virginia became the 35th U.S. state on June 20, 1863.
West Virginia was part of the Civil War. Many battles occurred in the state.
West Virginia was a part of Virginia until after the Civil War started, so technically at the start of the war what would become West Virginia was in the Confederacy. However, West Virginia separated itself form Virginia to join the Union as a free state, so West Virginia was aligned with the North after it came to exist as a separate political entity from Virginia.
At that time, western Virginia was against slavery while the rest of the state was for slavery.
Before the Civil War, the state of West Virginia was part of Virginia. Unionists did not support the Confederacy and established West Virginia in 1863.
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