Seceding From Secession: The Civil War, Politics and the Creation of West Virginia (Eric J. Wittenberg, Edmund A. Sargus Jr., Penny L. Barrick - CH) James Pula and his left hand and

and his left hand and wrist were bandaged and still partially splinted

Raised in an antebellum culture that demanded restraint and shaped white men to embrace self-reliant masculinity

Maxfield suggests that it is time to move on from the blame game and see prisoner of war camps—North and South—as a great humanitarian failure

a confidential informant to Stanton and Lincoln

Seceding From Secession: The Civil War, Politics and the Creation of West Virginia (Eric J. Wittenberg, Edmund A. Sargus Jr., Penny L. Barrick - CH) James Pula and his left hand andSeceding from Secession: The Civil War, Politics, and the Creation of West Virginia by Eric Wittenberg, Edmund Sargus, and Penny Barrick West Virginia was the child of the storm, concluded early Mountaineer historian and Civil War veteran, Maj. Theodore F. Lang. The northwestern third of the Commonwealth of Virginia finally broke away in 1863 to form the Unions 35th state. In Seceding from Secession: The Civil War, Politics, and the Creation of West