Seceding From Secession: The Civil War, Politics and the Creation of West Virginia (Eric J. Wittenberg, Edmund A. Sargus Jr., Penny L. Barrick - CH) Section - Abraham Lincol PLAIN BLADE

PLAIN BLADE

Leadership

The widow Lydia Leister bought her small 9-acre Taneytown Road farm just south of Gettysburg in 1861

which was concealed on or beneath the ground

and documents

Seceding From Secession: The Civil War, Politics and the Creation of West Virginia (Eric J. Wittenberg, Edmund A. Sargus Jr., Penny L. Barrick - CH) Section - Abraham Lincol PLAIN BLADESeceding from Secession: The Civil War, Politics, and the Creation of West Virginia by Eric Wittenberg, Edmund Sargus, and Penny Barrick West Virginia was the child of the storm, concluded early Mountaineer historian and Civil War veteran, Maj. Theodore F. Lang. The northwestern third of the Commonwealth of Virginia finally broke away in 1863 to form the Unions 35th state. In Seceding from Secession: The Civil War, Politics, and the Creation of West