Virginia and Secession. Share full article. July 3, 1863. ... What hopes are there for disunion or civil war? Will BARBOUR's, WISE's or SCOTT's resolutions pass?

He failed to prevent secession, then retired to his Richmond home. ... Talkov is head of program development and coordinator for Virginia's Civil War exhibit at the Virginia Historical Society.

John James Davis was shocked to learn that the Virginia Convention had endorsed secession on April 17, 1861. A Clarksburg ...

Lincoln, worried that conciliatory overtures toward the South would appear weak, employed a preinaugural strategy of ‘masterly inactivity.’ ...

Most people associate secession with the Civil War but idea of disuniting the United States has ... 48 counties in the western part of Virginia seceded from the Old Dominion to form West Virginia.

The American Civil War Museum’s acclaimed new exhibit, ... Virginia’s delegates voted ninety to forty-five against secession. The Virginia fire eater Edmund Ruffin was disgusted with his state.