s
proclamation relating to the admission of the State of West Virginia
into the Union, the same to take effect sixty days from date thereof.
Accordingly, therefore, on the twentieth day of June, 1863, the
commonwealth of West Virginia formally entered into the Union as a
State, the first one to do so with a constitution providing for the
gradual emancipation of any class of slaves within the limits of its
territory.[124]

ALRUTHEUS A. TAYLOR.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Hall, _The Rending of Virginia_, 13.

[2] _Ibid._, 13.

[3] Ambler, _Sectionalism in Virginia_, 1776-1861, 1-3.

[4] Hall, _The Rending of Virginia_, 30.

[5] _Ibid._, 30.

[6] Ambler, _Sectionalism in Virginia_, 1776-1861, 137.

[7] Hall, _The Rending of Virginia_, 42.

[8] Ambler, _Sectionalism in Virginia_, 1776-1861, 137.

[9] Ambler, _Sectionalism in Virginia_, 1776-1861.

[10] _Ibid._, 169.

[11] _Ibid._, 140, 141.

[12] Hall, _The Rending of Virginia_, 38.

[13] _Ibid._, 47.

[14] Hall, _The Rending of Virginia_, 45.

[15] Ambler, _Sectionalism in Virginia_, 187.

[16] Ambler, _Sectionalism in Virginia_, 186.

[17] _Ibid._, 189.

[18] _Ibid._, 192.

[19] _Ibid._, 1776-1861, 192.

[20] Ambler, _Sectionalism in Virginia_, 200.

[21] _Ibid._, 201.

[22] Ambler, _Sectionalism in Virginia_, 202.

[23] _Ibid._, 202.

[24] _Ibid._, 244.

[25] Ambler, _Sectionalism in Virginia_, 245.

[26] _Ibid._, 1776-1861, 251.

[27] _Ibid._, 251-252.

[28] Ambler, _Sectionalism in Virginia_, 253.

[29] _Ibid._, 253.

[30] Ambler, _Sectionalism in Virginia_, 262.

[31] _Ibid._, 264.

[32] _Ibid._, 265.

[33] _Ibid._, 1776-1861, 266.

[34] Ambler, _Sectionalism in Virginia_, 266.

[35] _Ibid._, 267.

[36] _Ibid._, 268.

[37] Hall, _The Rending of Virginia_, 62.

[38] Ambler, _Sectionalism in Virginia_, 1776-1861, 269.

[39] _Ibid._, 269.

[40] Ambler, _Sectionalism in Virginia_, 311.

[41] Hall, _The Rending of Va._, 60.

[42] _Ibid._, 61.

[43] Ambler, _Sectionalism in Va._, 1776-1861, 301.

[44] Hall, _The Rending of Va._, 60.

[45] Lewis, _How W. Va. Was Made_, 8.

[46] _Ibid._, 10.

[47] _Ibid._, 14.

[48] _Ibid._, 19.

[49] Lewis, _How W. Va. Was Made_, 63.

[50] _Ibid._, 41.

[51] _Ibid._, 45.

[52] _Ibid._, 48.

[53] Lewis, _How W. Va. Was Made_, 63.

[54] _Ibid._, 64.

[55] _Ibid._, 83.

[56] _Ibid._, 108.

[57] _Ibid._, 86.

[58] _Ibid._