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Civil War - West Virginia.

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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

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Matthew Tyler Foulds, Research Paper on Methodism in Western Virginia

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3976
Overview

Typescript of a paper written by Dr. Matthew Tyler Foulds titled "Enemies of the State: Political and Religious Secession in Western Virginia, 1844-1863". The paper regards the political and social influence of the Methodist Church and its various branches on the area that would become West Virginia, particularly those Methodists that supported the political and economic interests of western Virginia and, at the beginning of the Civil War, the unionist cause and statehood movement.

Dates: 2013