Even though West Virginia had remained in the Union, about half of the people in the state supported the South.

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The union collected the notes on a board twenty-three meters wide by almost two and a half meters tall.

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After three and a half years of fighting, hundreds of thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers had been killed or wounded.

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Half of the 50-cent increase is being paid for by the processors, the other half by the union.

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They want the Anglo-Saxon economic model - a liberalised economy, open markets, free trade, an end to the agricultural subsidies that, for the French, have been the bedrock of the European Union for half a century.

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The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union said the half-day strike caused "massive disruption".

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