Statehood Primary Documents
1829-30 Virginia Constitutional
Convention
Address to the People of West Virginia
John Brown
"To Lincoln Voters"
"Reasons for Voting for Lincoln in Virginia"
"A Bit of History:" Recollections of the Richmond
Convention
Virginia Ordinance of Secession
Votes on the Ordinance of Secession
Resolutions Adopted at the Clarksburg
Convention
Meeting in Guyandotte, 20 April 1861
Broadside for Union Rally in Fairmont, 29 April 1861
(Wheeling Artificial Collection, Ms2006-044)
Proceedings of the First Wheeling Convention
Delegates to the First Wheeling Convention
"Recollections and Narative [sic] of a Member of the May Convention
of 1861..."
Letter, "To the People of North-Western Virginia"
"The Election News"
Vote in Kanawha County on
the Ordinance of Secession (Artificial Statehood Collection, Ms79-244)
Delegates to the Second Wheeling Convention
Proceedings of the First Session of the Second
Wheeling Convention
"A Declaration of the People of Virginia"
An Ordinance for the Reorganization of the State Government
Editorials on the Declaration of the People of
Virginia
Delegates and Senators for the Reorganized Government of
Virginia
Proceedings of the Reorganized Government of Virginia General
Assembly
Editorial on Election of Carlile and Willey to the United States
Senate
U.S. Senate Debate on Acceptance of Carlile and
Willey
Delegates to the Second Wheeling Convention
Proceedings of the Second Session of the Second
Wheeling Convention
Statehood Referendum in Marshall County
"The Election To-Day"
Delegates to the Constitutional Convention
Debates and Proceedings of the First Constitutional Convention of West
Virginia
"What's In a Name": The Naming of West Virginia
First Constitution of West Virginia
Front Page of a Certified Copy of the
Constitution (Wheeling Artificial Collection, Ms2006-044)
Vote Totals by County on the West Virginia State Constitution (Z2.1 1862)
Governor Pierpont's Address to the Reorganized Government
of Virginia, 6 May 1862
Act of the Reorganized Government of Virginia Granting
Permission for Creation of New State
Speech of Congressman Kellian V. Whaley on the Admission of West
Virginia
United States Senate Debate on the Admission of West Virginia
United States House of Representatives Debate on the Admission of West Virginia
Willey Amendment
Opinion of Abraham Lincoln on the Admission of West
Virginia
Accounts of Lincoln's Signing of the Statehood Bill
Jacob Beeson Blair's Role in Lincoln's Approval of the Statehood Bill
Debates and Proceedings of the First Constitutional Convention of
West Virginia
Resolution of Committee to Seek Compensation for Loyal
Slaveholders
Report of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Elections, Christopher Grafflin
Vote of Delegates on Revised Constitution
Statehood Proclamation
Biographies of the First West Virginia Legislature
Map of the New State of West Virginia
Arthur Boreman's Union Ballot, May 28, 1863
(Wheeling Artificial Collection, Ms2006-044)
"The Day We Celebrate" (West Virginia Inauguration)
(Wheeling Artificial Collection, Ms2006-044)
Order of Ceremonies for "The Inauguration Of The New
State" (Wheeling Artificial Collection, Ms2006-044)
Letter, James S. Wheat to Arthur I. Boreman Regarding
the Inaugural Ceremonies (Wheeling Artificial Collection, Ms2006-044)
Inaugural Address of Governor Arthur I. Boreman
West Virginia State Seal (Wheeling Artificial Collection,
Ms2006-044)
Speech, Senator Peter Van Winkle on Reorganization of Virginia
and Admission of West Virginia
Return of Votes on Berkeley County (Gerrardstown
District) Becoming a Part of West Virginia
Congressional Recognition and Consent to Transfer
of Berkeley and Jefferson Counties to West Virginia
Proclamation of Governor Pierpont to
Governor Boreman announcing Berkeley County Vote to Join West Virginia (Wheeling
Artificial Collection, Ms2006-044)
Legislative Act Making Berkeley County a Part of West
Virginia
Legislative Act Making Jefferson County a Part of West
Virginia
1897 Article on Formation of West Virginia, Archibald Campbell and Francis Pierpont
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