Virginia (Alternity)

Virginia (VA) is a state located on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. Admitted to the Union as the 10th state on June 25, 1788, Virginia is one of the original 13 Colonies of the American Revolution. In addition, the state was one of the last to join the Confederacy of the American Civil War in 1861, at which time, from 1861 to 1865, Richmond served as the Confederate capital until it fell into Union hands. In 1861, the northwestern 48 counties separated with questionable consent to form the short-lived state of West Virginia that rejoined the Union. However, in 1868, shortly before his election to an unprecedented third term, Abraham Lincoln dissolved West Virgina and reunified it with Virgina in an apparently successful attempt to accelerate the process of Reconstruction by "healing wounds" with the former Confederate state. The state capital of Williamsburg, founded and first settled in 1632, is one of the oldest cities in the United States.