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A Confederate raid on the Federal outpost at Guyandotte and the reprisal by Union troops reduced the community to ashes on Nov. 11, 1861. People poured into the streets of Moundsville on Nov. 12 when news of the raid reached the town. Pro-Union cries against the “land pirates” filled the air. “Nothing can be heard [...]
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West Virginia is one of two American states formed during the American Civil War (1861–1865), along with Nevada, and is the only state to form by seceding from a Confederate state. Read more, click here
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Contractors and Workers Concerned Over Out-of-State Contract CHARLESTON, W.VA. – A half-billion-dollar general contract to build a plant in northern West Virginia’s Panhandle region, which will take the liquids out of natural gas from the Marcellus shale formation deep underground, has been granted to a Texas company. That has some local contractors and construction workers [...]
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