[Hacksaw]

How come West Virginia is in that map of the Confedracy? They did not want anything to do with the slave empire. I thought the freedom loving Confederates just wanted to be left alone and didn’t want conflict.

Many units from West Virginia fought for the south. In the Victorian district in Wheeling, there is still a fraternal org that honors one of them. West Virginia's secession from Virginia was rife with fraud, as Lincoln did not want a Confederate state north of DC (which was understandable).

[Colonel Kangaroo]

West Virginia's secession from Virginia was rife with fraud, as Lincoln did not want a Confederate state north of DC (which was understandable).

I doubt whether West Virginia's secession from Virginia had nearly the fraud that the secession of Georgia and Tennessee from the Union had.