Free Union is a census-designated place (CDP) in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States, ten miles north-northwest of Charlottesville. The population...

reaching Union lines or Union forces reaching their area. As Union forces advanced from January 1, 1863, to June 19, 1865, slaves were freed. West Virginia did...

for troops from all states still in the Union to put down the rebellion. For all practical purposes, Virginia joined the Confederacy on April 17, though...

populous city is Charleston with a population of 49,055. West Virginia was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863, and was a key border state during the American...

"Union" is also often used as a synonym for "the northern states loyal to the United States government". In this meaning, the Union included 20 free states...

of the Union Address is being held. A shootout starts, and Gibbons kills Mayweather. Deckert and Cobb abduct Sanford, and with Gibbons now free, they escape...

Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast...

enabling the admission of Missouri (a slave state) and Maine (a free state) into the Union Toledo War, 1835–36 boundary dispute between Ohio and the adjoining...

control that far north – especially after West Virginia separated from Virginia and joined the Union as a separate state in 1863. It is still used today...

Virginia City is a census-designated place (CDP) that is the county seat of Storey County, Nevada, and the largest community in the county. The city is...