August 20, 1861
- The pro-Union Second Wheeling Convention calls for the creation of the state of Kanawha
A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1
- Skirmish at Hawk’s Nest, in the Kanawha Valley, Va.: 4,000 rebels attacked the barricades of the 11th Ohio Regiment, and were driven back with the loss of 50 killed.
- Attack on Charleston, Mo., and rout of 1,200 rebels.
- Wheeling Convention passed an ordinance, erecting a new State to be called “Kanawha,” by a vote of 50 to 28. The boundary as ?xed included the counties of—Logan, Wyoming, Raleigh, Fayette, Nicholas, Webster, Randolph, Tucker, Preston, Monongahela, Marion, Taylor, Barbour, Upshur, Harrison, Lewis, Braxton, Clay, Kanawha, Boone, Wayne, Cabell, Putnam, Mason, Jackson, Roan, Calhoun, Wirt, Gilmer, Ritchie, Wood, Pleasants, Tyler, Doddridge, Wetzel, Marshall, Ohio, Brooke, and Hancock. Other adjoining counties might be admitted, if acceded to by a majority of the voters.
- A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863