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To: Colonel Kangaroo; Grand Old Partisan; Non-Sequitur
Some Civil War West Virginia links:

The Wheeling Convention of 1861

1st West Virginia Sergeant Saves Colors, Soldier, Too

THE BATTLE OF Philippi Bridge (June 3rd, 1861)

VAN WINKLE, Peter Godwin, (1808 - 1872)

West Virginia has the highest average elevation of any state east of the Mississippi River, and the most irregular boundary of any state.

Don Knotts was born in WV in 1924 (photo-2004)

88 posted on 09/10/2005 12:15:47 PM PDT by M. Espinola (Freedom is never free)
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To: M. Espinola
Had the Union army been close enough, the Greeneville Convention in East Tennessee might have had the same positive conclusion as WV's Wheeling Convention. Anyhow, West Virginia has a Civil War history to be proud of. The final won/lost results:

West Virginia 1-0

Virginia 0-1

109 posted on 09/11/2005 6:18:11 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: M. Espinola

>> West Virginia has the highest average elevation of any state east of the Mississippi River, and the most irregular boundary of any state.

And By God that is the way we like it.


325 posted on 09/15/2005 4:09:50 PM PDT by relictele (How can Hillary run the country when she couldn't manage a household of 3?)
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