Former Capitals of the Confederate States of America
Montgomery, Alabama
(until May 29, 1861)
Richmond, Virginia
(May 29, 1861-April 2, 1865)
Danville, Virginia
(from April 3, 1865)
Virginia also had more slaves than any other southern state during and prior to the civil war. Virginia, first imported Africans in 1619, a practice earlier established by Spanish Colonies. Cities of Norfolk, Richmond, and Alexandria served as some of the biggest slave ports in the United States.
1863
West Virginia was once a part of the state of Virginia. WV was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863.
The entire state of Virginia left the Union at the start of the Civil War. The counties now consisting of most of West Virginia were easily captured by Union forces and became a separate free state early in the Civil War.
Because the people living in the western part of Virginia wanted to remain part of the Union, breaking away from Virginia and forming the separate state of West Virginia
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The Counties that were West of Appalachians.
The whole of Virginia seceded. Then the mountainous Northwestern part of the state seceded from Virginia, and declared a new state of the Union, West Virginia.
West Virginia broke apart from the slave state Virginia and joined the Union, but for the most part all slave states were Confederate.
Virginia became part of the Confederacy while northwestern Virginia remained loyal to the Union. In 1863 it was admitted to the Union as a free state.
West Virginia was a part of Virginia that was anti-slavery, so they created a border and West Virginia joined the Union.
West Virginia did not secede from the Union. However, they did secede from Virginia when Virginia seceded from the Union.
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.