Introduction
Chapter One: East vs. West
Chapter Two: Election of 1860
Chapter Three: Richmond Convention
Chapter Four: Clarksburg Convention
Chapter Five: First Wheeling Convention
Chapter Six: Ratification of the Ordinance of Secession
Chapter Seven: First Session of the Second Wheeling
Convention
Chapter Eight: Legislature of the Reorganized Government of
Virginia
Chapter Nine: Second Session of the Second Wheeling
Convention
Chapter Ten: Statehood Referendum
Chapter Eleven: Constitutional Convention
Chapter Twelve: Reorganized Government of Virginia Approves
Separation
Chapter Thirteen: Congressional Debate on the Admission of
West Virginia
Chapter Fourteen: Lincoln's Dilemma
Chapter Fifteen: West Virginians Approve the Willey
Amendment
Chapter Sixteen: The New State of West Virginia
Learning Exercises
Primary Documents
Images
Other Sources
