Seceding From Secession: The Civil War, Politics and the Creation of West Virginia (Eric J. Wittenberg, Edmund A. Sargus Jr., Penny L. Barrick - CH) Section- African American Soldiers Army trained them in psychological

Army trained them in psychological warfare at a secret camp on the Gettysburg battlefield and then sent them to Europe

Drawing on previously overlooked sources

but includes personal glimpses into the lives of the Virginians who made up the 12th regiment

000 Confederate casualties

Seceding From Secession: The Civil War, Politics and the Creation of West Virginia (Eric J. Wittenberg, Edmund A. Sargus Jr., Penny L. Barrick - CH) Section- African American Soldiers Army trained them in psychologicalSeceding from Secession: The Civil War, Politics, and the Creation of West Virginia by Eric Wittenberg, Edmund Sargus, and Penny Barrick West Virginia was the child of the storm, concluded early Mountaineer historian and Civil War veteran, Maj. Theodore F. Lang. The northwestern third of the Commonwealth of Virginia finally broke away in 1863 to form the Unions 35th state. In Seceding from Secession: The Civil War, Politics, and the Creation of West