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How did the state of west Virginia form?

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∙ 8y ago
Updated: 9/2/2023

The Western counties of Virginia had not favoured secession. They presently broke away from Virginia and formed their own state of West Virginia in 1863.

It became one of the slave-states that were loyal to the Union, although there was actually very little slavery there.

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