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Timeline of West Virginia: Civil War and Statehood
August 12, 1863


Wheeling Intelligencer
August 13, 1863

Thos. Hornbrook, Surveyor of the Port of Wheeling, left yesterday for Cincinnati to meet with the Surveyors and special agents of the Treasury Department. We presume it was to take the necessary steps to open commercial trade with those parts of the insurrectionary States which have been so long obstructed.


Timeline of West Virginia: Civil War and Statehood: August 1863

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