West Virginia: Sources

  • Statutes at Large. The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America: from the organization of the government in 1789 to March 3, 1845. Boston, Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1845-1846, vol. 1-4 || The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America: from the organization of the government in 1789 to March 3, 1845. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1856-1867, vol. 5-8 || The Statutes at Large and Treaties of the United States of America. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855-1862, vol. 9-11 || The Statutes at Large, Treaties, and Proclamations, of the United States of America. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1863-1869, vol. 12-15 || The Statutes at Large and Proclamations of the United States of America. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1871-1873, vol. 16-17 || The Statutes at Large. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1875-1873, vol. 18-. online, online, online
  • Virginia Convention Journal 1861. Journal of the Convention Assembled at Wheeling, on the 11th of June, 1861. Wheeling: Printed at the Daily Press Book and Job Office, 1861. online
  • Virginia Conventions Proceedings 1861. Lewis, Virgil Anson (ed.) How West Virginia was made: proceedings of the first Convention of the people of northwestern Virginia at Wheeling, May 13, 14 and 15, 1861, and the journal of the second Convention of the people of northwestern Virginia at Wheeling, which assembled, June 11th 1861 and continued in session until June 25th, adjourned until August 6th, 1861, reassembled on that date, and continued in session until August 21st, when it adjourned sine die. Charleston, WV: News-Mail Company, 1909. online
  • Virginia Senate Journal (Wheeling) 1862. Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Virginia, extra session, held in the city of Wheeling, on Tuesday, May 6th, 1862. Wheeling: A.S. Trowbridge, 1862. online
  • Virginia Session Laws (Wheeling) 1862. Acts of the General Assembly passed at the extra session, held May Sixth, 1862, at the city of Wheeling. Wheeling, 1862. online
  • West Virginia Convention Debates 1861-1863. Ambler, Charles H. et al. (eds.) Debates and Proceedings of the First Constitutional Convention of West Virginia (1861-1863). Huntington, WV: Gentry Brothers, 1943. 3 vols. online; online
  • West Virginia Convention Journal 1861-1862. Journal of the Constitutional Convention of West Virginia, assembled at Wheeling on Tuesday, November the twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. Wheeling, VA: Campbell & M'Dermot, Printers, 1861. online
  • West Virginia House of Delegates Journal. Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of West Virginia. Wheeling, WV: John F. M'Dermot, 1863- [title and place of publication vary in several volumes] online: 1863-1868, 1870-1875, 1905-1977
  • West Virginia Senate Journal. Journal of the Senate of the State of West Virginia. Wheeling, WV: John F. M'Dermot, 1863- [title and place of publication vary in several volumes] online: 1863-1868, 1866-1978
  • Wheeling Daily Intelligencer. Wheeling Daily Intelligencer (No. 1, 24 Aug 1852 - No. 68, 11 Nov 1859) || Daily Intelligencer (No. 69, 12 Nov 1859 - No. 259, 24 Jun 1865) || The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer (No. 260, 26 Jun 1865 - No. 142, 5 Feb 1903) || The Wheeling Intelligencer (No. 143, 6 Feb 1903 - No. 261, 29 Jun 1961) || The Intelligencer (No. 262, 30 Jun 1961-) online: 1852-1859, 1859-1865, 1865-1900, 1911-1922