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West Bragg Creek Day Use Area
West Bragg Creek Day Use Area
West Bragg Creek Day Use Area
West Bragg Creek Day Use Area
West Bragg Creek Day Use Area
West Bragg Creek Day Use Area
West Bragg Creek Day Use Area
West Bragg Creek Day Use Area
West Bragg Creek Day Use Area
West Bragg Creek Day Use Area
West Bragg Creek Day Use Area
West Bragg Creek Day Use Area
West Bragg Creek Day Use Area
West Bragg Creek Day Use Area
West Bragg Creek Day Use Area
West Bragg Creek Day Use Area
West Bragg Creek Day Use Area
West Bragg Creek Day Use Area
West Bragg Creek Day Use Area
West Bragg Creek Day Use Area
West Bragg Creek Day Use Area
West Bragg Creek Day Use Area
West Bragg Creek Day Use Area
West Bragg Creek Day Use Area
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Kananaskis, AB T0L 0K0, Canada

The U.S. state of West Virginia was formed out of western Virginia and added to the Union as a direct result of the American Civil War , in which it became the only state to declare its independence from the Confederacy. In the summer of 1861, Union troops, which included a number of newly-formed Unionist Virginia regiments under General George McClellan, drove off Confederate troops under General Robert E. Lee. This essentially freed Unionists in the northwestern counties of Virginia to form a functioning government of their own as a result of the Wheeling Convention. Prior to the admission of West Virginia the government in Wheeling formally claimed jurisdiction over all of Virginia, although from its creation it was firmly committed to the formation of a separate state. After Lee's departure, western Virginia continued to be a target of Confederate raids, even after the creation of the new state in 1863. These actions focused both on supplying the Confederate Army with provisions as well as attacking the vital Baltimore and Ohio Railroad that linked the northeast with the midwest, as exemplified in the Jones-Imboden Raid. Guerrilla warfare also gripped the new state, especially in the Allegheny Mountain counties to the east, where loyalties were much more divided than in the Unionist northwest part of the state. Despite this, the Confederacy was never able to seriously threaten the Unionists' overall control of West Virginia.
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