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West Virginia Map

Baptists and the American Civil War: March 13, 1863

The fate of West Virginia, comprised of land carved out of the state of Virginia in a citizen-initiated process that began in June 1861 in opposition to secession, will officially be determined on March 26, at which time a popular vote is to be held on the matter of formal statehood. Excitement is in the…

March 13, 2013 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
Topeka Kansas 1869

Baptists and the American Civil War: January 29, 1861

As Georgia prepares for the upcoming slaveholdering states’ convention, and Texas prepares for secession, Kansas is admitted as the 34th state of the United States of America. For six years the scattered residents of Kansas territory, mostly poor white farmers, had struggled to obtain statehood, their efforts held hostage to the heated slavery debate in…

January 29, 2011 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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