 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Pennsylvania General Assembly yakapa bumbiro kuchikoro chakabatana pana March 4, 1865. Udzame hwokupedzisira hwokubatanidza hwakasiyana nehurongwa hwevakapedza kudzidza. Musasa muCannonsburg waizogara Mutungamiri, vamwe vapurofesa, kirasi yechipiri, yejunior, uye yevakuru, nepo vadzidzi vomugore rokutanga, Mutevedzeri weMutungamiri, uye vamwe vapurofesa vaizova muWashington. Misangano yebhodhi, kupedza zvidzidzo, uye zvimwe zviitiko zvinokosha zvaizochinjana pakati penzvimbo mbiri idzi. Bhodhi rakabatana raizobatanidza 15 vanobva musangano rimwe nerimwe naDr. Beatty senhengo yechi 31. Pavadzidzisi vacho, David Hunter Riddle naAlonzo Linn vakagara muCannonsburg. Bumbiro idzva rakaratidzira zvakajeka kuti Washington Jefferson College yaizova isiri yamapoka. Musi waAugust 1, 1865, aimbova mutungamiri weJefferson Robert Jefferson Breckinridge akakumbirwa kutora hutungamiri, chipo chaakaramba zviri pamutemo muna December, nekuda kwekushaya hutano uye migumisiro kubva pakuurayiwaweshamwari yake yepedyo, Abraham Lincoln. Kubatanidzwa kwamakoreji maviri, rimwe raifadza zvikurukuru vadzidzi vokumaodzanyemba uye rimwe racho raida zvakasimba kubviswa kwehuranda, kwakasimbiswa sezvo Kubatanidzwa kwakachengetedzwa. 