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West Virginia was a part of Virginia until after the Civil War started, so technically at the start of the war what would become West Virginia was in the Confederacy. However, West Virginia separated itself form Virginia to join the Union as a free state, so West Virginia was aligned with the North after it came to exist as a separate political entity from Virginia.

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Early in the Civil War, the Union easily captured some of the western counties of Virginia. It established a capital and admitted those counties to the Union as a free state. It became the state of West Virginia.

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