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As secession fervor continues sweeping the South, Virginians are conflicted. In the eastern part of the state, slavery is a major economic foundation and slave-based plantations are common. To the west (which in 1863 would become the new state of West Virginia), slavery is less dominant, and small farmers more numerous, yet many non-slaveholders in…
George Barber Raymond (1822-1870), a Massachusetts Congregationalist recently converted to the Baptist faith, is elected as a selectman (in effect, a member of the board of directors) of Winchendon (in Worcester County)*. He would serve in this post throughout the Civil War, until 1866. Only well-respected men in New England towns attained such a position.…