A year after the Civil War ended, West Virginia authorized the minting of more than 26,000 medals to honor the state’s soldiers that served in the Union Army. More than 150 years later, however ...

On June 20, 1863, West Virginia seceded from Virginia to align with the Union during the Civil War. It rejected the Confederacy then, but the state hasn't taken down any Confederate statues in 2020.

Well, on May 22, 1861, a man by the name of Thornsbury Bailey Brown was killed in Fetterman, Virginia (modern day Taylor County, West Virginia). According to Emerging Civil War, Brown’s death ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — Scenes from the Civil War were brought to Henderson Hall this weekend as a way to commemorate the establishment of West Virginia in the height of the war in 1863. Every year, the ...

West Virginia Is Looking for the Descendants of Civil War Veterans Who Never Claimed Their Medals 6 minute read The three types of medals that West Virginia gave to Union soldiers, photographed on ...

One hundred and fifty years ago this week, West Virginia became the 35th state in the union. Born in in 1863, the middle of the Civil War, the state was created by patriots who didn't want to join ...

While West Virginia's main sesquicentennial celebration has come and gone, folks around the state will be celebrating the 150th in a new, high-tech way as ExploreWV unveils a 75-cache, Civil War ...

West Virginia is the only state formed because of the Civil War.Just as North battled South in the country, West confronted East in Virginia. The two regions formed a single state in name, but not ...

CHARLESTON — West Virginia Archives and History will present “West Virginia and the Civil War” in the Archives and History Library at the Culture Center, State Capitol Complex, in Charleston ...

"The West Virginia Campaigns of 1861" was a presentation of the 29th annual summer conference of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, "Mobilizing for War and the Battle of First Manassas ...

Tolson, an administrative assistant with Civil War Trails, worked with private collectors and members of West Virginia’s Jewish community to unearth details regarding the 1862 seders and Joel.