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Message:: [QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 1774528, member: 12789"]Like so many things, time has a way of hazing the facts.  W. Virginia seceded from Virginia to stay in the union and became a state in 1863 - firmly in the Union camp.  But go to W. Virginia today and one could get the impression that they were part of the Confederacy all along. It is a phenomenon I have heard referred to as a "recreated memory". Many of the commanders on both sides respected their adversaries - with good reason - they had known each other from the antebellum era while in the service.  That was all largely ignored after the lifetimes of those men.[/QUOTE]