"But although western Virginia menaced the Federal cause, it also promised it substantial gains. Its people were largely Unionist. For years they had felt like Virginia's stepchildren, believing that the state was run by tidewater folk for tidewater's benefit; a great many of them had ceased to identify themselves strongly with Virginia, precisely as Virginia itself had lost its feeling of identity with the Federal Union, and they had voted against secession. Now they were planning a secession of their own; they would break away from Virginia and become either a brand-new state, or, if the war lasted, the legally dominant section of the old one. Either way they meant trouble for Jefferson Davis, and the Lincoln administration would help them if it could."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury (1961), Garden City: Doubleday & Company, first edition hardcover, p. 405-406
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/West_Virginia
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
West Virginia
38 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by West Virginia →
Related Quotes
"The appeal of this dynamic, rugged state is perhaps best described by the words of mega-weenie John Denver, who sang:…"
"West Virginia has the seventh-highest child poverty rate in the country. West Virginia has horrible climate condition…"
"Things you are slower than, #5: A West Virginia prom date."
"All of this was as clear to McClellan as anything needed to be. He got, in addition, a slight nudge from General Scot…"
"So I had Cheneys on both sides of the family and we don't even live in West Virginia."
"Country roads, take me home to the place I belong. West Virginia, mountain mama. Take me home, country roads."
"I hear her voice in the mornin' hour, she calls me The radio reminds me of my home far away Drivin' down the road, I …"
"West Virginia, oh my home. West Virginia, where I belong. In the dead of the night, in the still and the quiet I slip…"
"You (Jamaal Bowmann)... talk about the number of noes that he is saying to the face of your community: no more child …"
"West, by God! West Virginia!"