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The Largest Armed Uprising Since the Civil War – Blair Mountain!In 1921, coal miners in West Virginia took up arms in one of the largest labor uprisings in U.S. history. The Battle of Blair ...
The besieged capital is Washington, and the war-torn territory is in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Virginia. The civil war of the title is American, and not the one that started in 1861.
The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia ...
Strategically, the Eastern Theater was arguably the most important battleground of the Civil War; comprising the states of Virginia, West Virginia Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the District of ...
Admitted to the Union in 1863, West Virginia was the only state created from breaking apart from a Confederate state during the Civil War and played a key role as a border state. A West Virginia ...
Perhaps the most well-known destination in West Virginia, Harpers Ferry is more than a quaint 19th-century town. It's a National Historic Park with Civil War sites including battlefields ...
“All Civil War battlefields are like that ... as they trek from Berryville to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, in 1864. Steadman ...
Famous for leading the ill-fated "Pickett's Charge" at Gettysburg, George Pickett was a West Point ... killed by the war's end. George Edward Pickett was raised in Richmond, Virginia, the eldest ...
Inside Appalachia speaks with the author of a new graphic novel about the West Virginia Mine Wars. The labor struggle culminated in the largest armed uprising since the Civil War. Also ...
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