West Virginia

West Virginia is a state in the United States made up of several western counties of Virginia which refused to accept that state's decision to secede and join the Confederate States.

During the War of Secession, a Union army under George McClellan secured West Virginia against a Confederate army under Robert E. Lee through the heroics of William Rosecrans. West Virginia remained a part of the US after the US granted the CS independence.

West Virginians remained distrustful of and distrusted by Confederates for generations to come.

During both the Second Mexican War and the Great War, West Virginia was used as a staging area for US invasions of the Confederacy. The Second Mexican War invasion failed, the Great War invasion succeeded.

At the end of the Great War, West Virginia's borders were extended to the Rappahannock River when the CS was forced to make territorial concessions. Jake Featherston used this concession as a casus belli against the United States. During the Second Great War, West Virginia was used as the staging area for Daniel MacArthur's invasion of Virginia. The Freedom Party encouraged Confederate diehards within the annexed territories to sabotage US supply lines and support forces.