Timeline of West Virginia: Civil War and Statehood
December 12, 1862

The Senate bill for the admission of Western Virginia into the Union was passed by a vote of 96 against 55, as follows:

Yeas - Messrs. Aldich, Arnold, Babitt, Baker, Baxter, Beaman, Bingham, Blair of Va. , Blair of Penn. , Blake, Brown of Va. , Buffington, Burnham, Campbell, Casey, Chamberlain, Clark, Clements, Colfax, Frederick, A. Conkling, Covode, Cutter, Davis, Duell, Dunn, Edgerton, Edwards, Elliot, Ely, Fenton, S. Fessenden, T. A. C. Fessenden, Frank, Franchot, Godwin, Gurley, Haight, Hale, Harrison, Hickman, Hooper, Horton, Hutchins, Julian, Kelley, Kellogg of Ill. , Killinger, Lansing, Lehman, Loomis, Lovejoy, Low, McKnight, McPherson, Maynard, Mitchell, Moorhead, Morrill of Me. , Morrill of Vt. , Nixon, Noell, Olin, Patton, Phelps of Cal. , Pike, Pomeroy, Porter, Potter, Rice of Me., Riddie, Rollins of N. H. , Sargeant, Sedgwick, Shanks, Sheffield, Shellabarger, Sherman, Sloan, Spaulding, Stevens, Stratton, Trumbull, Trowbridge, Van Horn, Van Valkenburg, Van Wyck, Verree, Wall, Walker, Washburne, Whaley, White of Ind. , Wilson, Windom, Worchester.

Nays - Messrs. Allen of Ill. , Alley, Ancona, Ashley, Bailey, Biddle, Cobb, Roscoe, Conkling, Conway, Cox, Cravens, Crisfield, Crittenden, Delano, Delaplaine, Diven, Dunlap, English, Gooch, Granger, Grider, Hail, Harding, Holman, Johnston, Kerrigan, Knapp, Law, Mallory, Menzies, Morris, Noble, Norton, Odell, Pendleton, Price, Rice of Mass. , Richardson, Robinson of Ill. , Rollins of Mo. , Segar, Shiel, Smith, Steele of N.Y. , Steele of N.J. , Thomas of Mass. , Thomas of Md. , Train, Vallandigham, Voorhees, Ward, White of Ohio, Wickliffe, Wright, Yeaman.

Timeline of West Virginia: Civil War and Statehood: December 1862