Today in History

June 20, 1863

West Virginia Becomes a State

"Voices from the mountains are loyal and true" - those were the words of President Abraham Lincoln on this day in 1863 when West Virginia seceded not from the Union, but from Virginia. Sentiment against leaving the Union ran high in West Virginia, and by a narrow vote, become the only state to form by breaking away from a Confederate state.

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