Seceding From Secession: The Civil War, Politics and the Creation of West Virginia (Eric J. Wittenberg, Edmund A. Sargus Jr., Penny L. Barrick - CH) James Pula Civil War House (#24441)

Civil War House (#24441)

From Nathan Hale to Benedict Arnold

Raised in an antebellum culture that demanded restraint and shaped white men to embrace self-reliant masculinity

and his left hand and wrist were bandaged and still partially splinted

beginning with character assassination by his contemporaries after the war and

Seceding From Secession: The Civil War, Politics and the Creation of West Virginia (Eric J. Wittenberg, Edmund A. Sargus Jr., Penny L. Barrick - CH) James Pula Civil War House (#24441)Seceding from Secession: The Civil War, Politics, and the Creation of West Virginia by Eric Wittenberg, Edmund Sargus, and Penny Barrick West Virginia was the child of the storm, concluded early Mountaineer historian and Civil War veteran, Maj. Theodore F. Lang. The northwestern third of the Commonwealth of Virginia finally broke away in 1863 to form the Unions 35th state. In Seceding from Secession: The Civil War, Politics, and the Creation of West