Statistics for occurrence #1 of “western Virginia” in chapter 1, page 12 of Col. Robert White, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.2, West Virginia:
...n was called to carry out this plan.
Attorney-General Bates, of Lincoln's cabinet, in a letter to a member of the convention, strongly opposed it, declaring that the formation of a new State out of western Virginia is an original, independent act of revolution.
Any attempt to carry it out involves a plain breach of both the constitutions, of Virginia and of the nation.
He contended that the plan under which...
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