The South seceded from the Union in 1861, but western Virginia upstarts seceded from the South— and took a vital railroad with them. The dreaded moment had arrived: President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers to suppress the Southern rebellion in the spring of 1861 pushed the Commonwealth of Virginia off the fence it had tried …
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