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<p>[quote user="schlimm"][/quote][quote user="schlimm"]</p> <p>Although McClellan's forces were victorious in West Virginia, they did not enter until June, 1861, move south on June 27, and gain victory until July 11. Already the legislators from the western counties in Virginia General Assembly had voted against the Ordinance of Secession on April 17. At the election on May 23, 1861, secession was ratified by a large majority in the state as a whole, but in the western counties 34,677 voted against and 19,121 voted for the Ordinance. The Second Wheeling Convention met as agreed on June 11 and declared that, since the Secession Convention had been called without the consent of the people, all its acts were void. An act for the reorganization to be the legitimate government of all Virginia was passed on June 19. June 20 Francis Pierpoint <span style="text-decoration:underline;"></span>was chosen by other delegates at the convention to be governor of Virginia, other officers were elected and the convention adjourned. So to state the legal niceties were after the battle is misleading. The process was well underway prior to McClellan.[/quote]</p> <p>And had McCellan been driven out of West Virginia by the Confederates, the territorial outcome would have been? The West Virginia decision was rendered possible by McCellan's victory. Had he not been victorious, it is doubtful that the western counties of Virginia would have been able to break free of Virginia regardless of how the citizens or their representatives voted. The validation of the vote came about because of military conquest; had it gone the other way the vote would have been nullified. </p> <p>There was strong union sentiment in Texas, Eastern Tennessee, and Northern Alabama. Many of the people in the Texas hill country, as well as those near Munster, Gainesville, etc. in North Texas, were strongly opposed to succession. They were not able to breakaway from the Confederacy because they did not have the military muscle to do it. The military force that holds the ground decides the outcome. </p>
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