Gordon Battelle
The Rending of Virginia
Battelle was a Methodist minister in Wheeling, and served as chaplain of the First West Virginia Infantry. He was elected a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and proposed several amendments addressing the abolition of slavery in West Virginia. Battelle died on August 7, 1862.
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