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West Virginia and Vandalia: alternate histories and a lost state
A speculative tour through Lee's West Virginia expedition, early Confederate failures, and a proposed 18th century state called Westsylvania. The piece riffs on if Vandalia had become a real state, pondering how West Virginia might still have formed, and even whether John Denver would have linked Westsylvania in Take Me Home Country Roads. Greg Jordan, Daily Telegraph senior reporter.
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Lee
Confederacy
West Virginia
Appalachian
Michale J. Trinklen
Iceland
Greenland
Georgia
England
Scotland
Ireland
Wales
United Kingdom
U.S
Lincoln
Transylvania
Cuba
Panama
Trinklen
Pittsburgh
Kentucky
Vandalia
Westsylvania
Virginia
Pennsylvania
John Denver
Country Roads