The two-week Second Wheeling (Virginia) Convention concludes: Delegates from 30 northwestern Virginia counties, along with compulsory Union occupied Alexandria and Fairfax Counties secede from the Commonwealth of Virginia form an alternate government for the State.
NOTE: The Representatives and Senators elected by the Electorate and legislature were admitted into Congress.
[updated 2/1/2025]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
unanimous Declaration (of Independence), Paragraph 2
ccc-2point0.com/unanimous-declaration-of-independence
“Law of the Jungle”
ccc-2point0.com/preface
References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 285.
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 165.
Wheeling Convention – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeling_Convention
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