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Timeline of West Virginia: Civil War and Statehood
August 17, 1863


Wheeling Intelligencer
August 27, 1863

Meeting in Monongalia.

Three women dressed in men's clothing residing in Wetzel county, with the assistance of a boy 14 years of age and a gentleman, arrested on last Monday week, three rabid secesh gentlemen, and kept them prisoners until morning. The affair caused considerable excitement in that county.


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

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