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President Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, which exempted from emancipation the border states (four slave states loyal to the Union) as well as some territories occupied by Union forces within Confederate states. Two additional counties were added to West Virginia in late 1863, Berkeley and Jefferson. The ...
"The View from the Border: West Virginia Republicans and Women's Rights in the Age of Emancipation," West Virginia History, Spring2009, Vol. 3 Issue 1, pp 57–80, 1861–1870 era; Gerofsky, Milton. "Reconstruction in West Virginia, Part I and II," West Virginia History 6 (July 1945); Part I, 295–360, 7 (October 1945): Part II, 5–39, Link ...
On December 31, 1862, President Lincoln signed the West Virginia statehood bill on the condition that the new state provide some type of emancipation. Waitman T. Willey , a Senator of Virginia under the aegis of the Restored Government in Wheeling, composed an emancipation amendment to the constitution to be ratified by public vote on March 26 ...
The Emancipation Proclamation also stated men of color would be allowed to join the Union army, an invitation they gladly accepted. By the end of the Civil War, nearly 200,000 Black men had fought ...
Current estimates of soldiers from West Virginia are 20,000-22,000 men each to the Union and the Confederacy. [49] West Virginia was required as part of its admission as a state in 1863 to have a gradual emancipation clause in the new state's constitution.
Base map derived from File:Blank US Map with borders.svg by User:Strafpeloton2. For states and counties exempted from the Emancipation Proclamation, I consulted File:Emancipation Proclamation.PNG; battle lines as of January 1, 1863, are based partly on File:Map of American Civil War in 1862.svg (reflecting battle lines at the end of the year 1862).
Though the counties of Virginia that were soon to form West Virginia were specifically exempted from the Proclamation (Jefferson County being the only exception), a condition of the state's admittance to the Union was that its constitution provide for the gradual abolition of slavery (an immediate emancipation of all slaves was also adopted ...
The Appalachian counties of Virginia separated from the rest of the state during the Civil War. Gradual emancipation was written in West Virginia state constitution of 1863. [28] Wisconsin: USA: February 24, 1865: May 29, 1848 (statehood)