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The Virginia Convention of 1864 was an assembly of sixteen loyal Unionists during the American Civil War meeting under the auspices of Virginia's Restored...

reject the Virginia |ordinance of secession and establish the Unionist Restored Government of Virginia Virginia Loyalist Convention of 1864, constitutional...

The Virginia Conventions have been the assemblies of delegates elected for the purpose of establishing constitutions of fundamental law for the Commonwealth...

Loyalists were colonists in the Thirteen Colonies who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War, often referred to as...

National Union Convention (also known as the Loyalist Convention, the Southern Loyalist Convention, the National Loyalists' Loyal Union Convention, or the Arm-In-Arm...

result of the Wheeling Convention. Before the admission of West Virginia as a state, the government in Wheeling formally claimed jurisdiction over all of Virginia...

opposition, the convention did not honor its pledge to have the proposed constitution put to popular vote. Like the 1864 Constitution by the Loyalist government...

It held the 1864 National Union Convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln for president and Andrew Johnson for vice president in the 1864 United States...

Carolinians, for example, formed their own loyalist infantry, cavalry, and artillery regiments, while West Virginians formed a new Union state admitted in 1863...

the purpose of the convention to select a new presidential nominee for the Democratic Party. The keynote speaker was Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii. Vice...

consisting of many newly formed West Virginia regiments, had set up a loyalist "restored" state government of Virginia. Lincoln recognized this government...

the order of the conventions, but since 1936 the party to which the incumbent president belongs has held its convention second. Between 1864 and 1952,...

American Patriot forces had the support of France and Spain, as well as the Dutch Republic, while the British and Loyalist forces hired Hessian soldiers from...

to Virginia to provide troops. Governor Letcher responded on April 15 on behalf of the state refusing Lincoln's request. In response, the convention passed...

ISSN 0043-5597. JSTOR 2674263. Fifth Virginia Convention (1776). "Preamble and Resolution of the Virginia Convention, May 15, 1776". New Haven, CT: Lillian...

Loyalists during the American Revolution. This punishment had long been used by sailors to punish their mates. On August 14, 1769, the Boston Sons of...

Johnson faced the question of what to do with the former Confederacy. President Lincoln had authorized loyalist governments in Virginia, Arkansas, Louisiana...

County at the sessions of Virginia General Assembly at Alexandria on December 7, 1863 – February 8, 1864, and at the Convention of 1864 (which met under Governor...

largely Union loyalists and voted against secession. For the duration of the Civil War, the Confederacy claimed the whole of antebellum Virginia, including...

allowed to separate from Tennessee. The Convention met for a final time in Knoxville from April 12 to April 16, 1864, to address the Emancipation Proclamation...