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Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: May 18, 2011
Caption:
State Capitol | Additional Description: The act of Congress admitting
West Virginia to conditional
statehood was approved by
President Lincoln on December
31, 1862. The condition having
been completed with, on April
20, 1863. He proclaimed West
Virginia a state in the union
from and after sixty days from
that date, or June 20, 1863.
Submitted: May 30, 2011, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p155151
File Size: 0.133 Megabytes
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