Secession of Virginia

John Carlile was a delegate to the Virginia Secession Convention

Waitman Willey was selected as a delegate to the Virginia Secession Convention

George Summer was elected a member of the Virginia secession convention

Samuel Price returned to Richmond as a member of the Secession Convention of 1861

Chester Hubbard opposed secession as a delegate to Virginia's secession convention

Allen Taylor Caperton voted for secession at the Virginia convention

Virginia held a convention to consider secession from the United States

Commonwealth of Virginia seceded from the Union; the Virginia secession convention votes to take Virginia out of the Union

Arthur Boreman left General Assembly due to Virginia's secession

George Imboden enlisted in the Confederate army

Virginia Secession Convention voted 88-55 to submit an Ordinance of Secession to the state’s voters

Virginia passed an Ordinance of Secession

The Second Wheeling Convention convened

One hundred delegates representing 34 counties met at the Second Wheeling Convention

The Second Wheeling Convention began in the Wheeling Custom House.

Francis Pierpont was elected governor of the Reorganized (Unionist) Government of Virginia

Delegates to the Second Wheeling Convention elected Francis H. Pierpont as the governor of Virginia