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John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Chapter 12: West Virginia. (search)
l. In August the Wheeling Convention reassembled, and on the 20th adopted an ordinance creating the new State of Kanawha, and providing for a ratifying popular vote to be taken on the question in the following October. It is not the province of this volume to follow further the political transformation of the Old Dominion, thus inaugurated, except to add that the proposed State of Kanawha became the State of West Virginia, and was duly admitted to the Union about two years later. Governor Peirpoint, the head of the provisional government thus organized at Wheeling, made a formal application under the Constitution, to the Government of the United States, for aid to suppress rebellion and protect the people against domestic violence; and in furtherance of this object General McClellan ordered additional forces into the State from his Department. Local enlistments had also by this time increased West Virginia's own contingent to three regiments under his command. In addition to a