The Daily 304 presents “The Wheeling Convention”

7/6/2021

No other state was ever torn from another as was West Virginia. With the Civil War looming on the horizon, The Richmond Convention gave Virginia the opportunity to secede from the United States and The Wheeling Convention restored the rights of the state’s western citizens to remain with the U.S. by seceding from Virginia.

The Daily 304 presents “The Wheeling Convention – The Origins of West Virginia.”