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Charleston, West Virginia

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"Charleston, West Virginia" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/P00013953, (accessed May 23, 2025).

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Capital of West Virginia. Seat of Kanawha County, West Virginia. Located at the confluence of the Elk River and Kanawha River.

George Wesley Atkinson, History of Kanawha County: From Its Organization in 1789 Until the Present (Charleston, WV: The Office of the West Virginia Journal, 1876), 53.
USGS: Earth Explorer, "Charleston, West Virginia," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on January 19, 2021).

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