| State of Kanawha | |||||||||||||
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| Unorganized proposed state of the United States | |||||||||||||
| 1861–1863 | |||||||||||||
 1861 map of Kanawha | |||||||||||||
| Capital | Wheeling, West Virginia | ||||||||||||
| Historical era | American Civil War | ||||||||||||
• Commonwealth of Virginia secedes from the United States and joins the Confederacy | April 16, 1861 | ||||||||||||
• Second Wheeling Convention votes to secede from Virginia | 20 August 1861 | ||||||||||||
• Area is wholly admitted to the Union, with additional counties, as "West Virginia" | 20 June 1863 | ||||||||||||
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Kanawha was a proposed name for the 39 counties which later became the main body of the U.S. state of West Virginia, formed on October 24, 1861. It consisted of most of the far northwestern counties of Virginia, which voted to secede from the state after Virginia joined the Confederate States of America at the beginning of the American Civil War on April 17, 1861.
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