West Virginia split from Post War Supreme Court of the US decisions regarding secession

MHB1862

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Virginia
A question that has bothered me for years is, if the SCOTUS deemed secession from the Union be unlawful, how then was it legal for West Virginia to secede from Virginia during an illegal war?
Can scholars out there help me understand why the first was illegal and the second legal?
 
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