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A slave state, which seceded from the Union on April 17, 1861. The western portion of Virginia did not wish to secede from the Union in 1861 and broke away to form its own state on June 20, 1863. West Virgina was part of the Union on June 20, 1863, and thus a free state, and the 35th state.

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