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• McNeill’s Rangers

  … of the Rangers and led them until the end of the war. On February 21, 1865, they were successful in kidnapping Union generals … Gen. Jubal Early at Staunton, Virginia. At the end of the war, Jesse McNeill and 30 men surrendered to Union troops on April …

• Dan Cunningham

  … .org/articles/314, the West Virginia "Mine Wars":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1799, bloody land … stemming from the resentment of outside ownership and long-simmering hatred of opposing Civil War factions in Jackson and Roane counties. …

• Ohio County

  … king, but the French and Indian War invalidated that claim. The first white … long Victorian era. During the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org … continued their industrial preeminence after the Civil War, manufacturing nails, calico, beer, …

• Mingo County

  … participated violently in the "Mine Wars":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … armed uprising in America since the Civil War. Despite the strains of change, … /318 and the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum in Matewan. Additional tourism projects …

• Pendleton County

  … during the "French and Indian War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … a local landmark today. During the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … struck Pendleton between the two world wars. In April 1924, a catastrophic fire …

• Henry Clay Ragland

  … Confederate Army of Northern Virginia until captured by Union troops near Luray, Virginia, in 1864. He spent the remainder of the war in Point Lookout prison in Maryland. Ragland worked as a teacher in Goochland County before moving to Wayne County, in …

• Raleigh County

  … not known, but William Richmond, a Revolutionary War veteran, is a good candidate. … control Western Virginia during the "Civil War":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … 1865, Raleigh suffered a collapse of civil government. County records were sent to …

• Morgan’s Raid

  … numbers of regular Union troops on a wild chase across three states. In planning his ambitious 1863 raid, Morgan sought to carry the war to the North. Crossing into Indiana on July 9, 1863, he proceeded to push his cavalry to Cincinnati by the 14th. …

• Frederick County, Virginia

  … sessions. After the French and Indian War, people began moving west and Frederick … communicate with other such committees. When war came, Capt. Daniel Morgan’s … miles. By 1860, Frederick had some 13,000 inhabitants. During the Civil War the county was the …

• Freedmen’s Bureau

  … the U.S. Army had operated during the Civil War. Headed nationally by Gen. Oliver Otis Howard, the bureau operated in West Virginia … initial refugee problem at Harpers Ferry and continual civil rights violations in Jefferson County, most of …

• Glenville State University

  … governor and the father of World War I aviator "Louis Bennett … economy began to improve during World War II, but enrollment fell in … , and music. After "World War II":http://www.wvencyclopedia … , once the site of a Civil War fort. The area is …

• Secession of Virginia

  … was ratified to support Governor Letcher in putting Virginia on a war footing. Among the consequences to Virginia of these fateful actions of the spring of 1861 were four devastating years of war and the ultimate loss of a third of its territory to …

• First Wheeling Convention

  … , the immediate impact was to start a process for preserving law and order in a region where the survival of civilized society was in danger. Northern and southern sympathizers were competing to recruit militia units for their respective causes, and …

• Second Wheeling Convention

  … ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/62, some of the delegates believed that it was preferable to continue Virginia in its pre-war entirety rather than create a new state out of the western counties. But on August 20, after lengthy debate, the …

• African Methodist Episcopal Church

  … .org/articles/263 in 1859. Throughout the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193, additional workers moved south on … rapidly gained membership in the South following the Civil War. When the Wheeling District of the …

• African-American Heritage

  … was a product of the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org … /articles/2083, the school teacher and civil rights activist, was among the prominent … Black churches, fraternal orders, social clubs, civil rights and political organizations, and the …

• Red Spruce Forests

  … then burning the forest, destroyed large areas of the original spruce forest. Wildfires escaping from campfires of Civil War troops and ‘‘rings of fire’’ set by deer hunters added to the toll. The remaining red …

• Red Sulphur Springs

  … spring resort from the 1820s until World War I. The spring water emerges from … resort came before 1861. During the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … armies occupied the buildings. Following the war the resort continued operation, and in …

• Greenland Gap

  Greenland Gap is a scenic 820-foot-deep pass through New Creek Mountain in Grant County. Both sides of the gap are framed by towering cliffs of "Tuscarora sandstone":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/798. The North Fork of Patterson Creek, …

• Religion

  … , as well. During and before the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/239. After the Civil War, West Virginia’s previously agrarian economy became increasingly industrial. Wheeling, the …

• Greenwood Cemetery

  … ) in Wheeling was incorporated in March 1866. Among the incorporators were Wheeling’s Civil War mayor Andrew J. Sweeney, state founder & … prior to Morgan’s burial. James Gilchrist, a civil engineer, laid out the cemetery. Adorning the …

• The Rending of Virginia

  … elevated the defense of Southern states-right dogma and deemed that slavery was not the cause of the Civil War, Hall in _The Rending of Virginia_ sought to counter turn-of-the-century distortions of the secessionist …

• Republican Party

  … record of the GOP in the Mountain State one must understand how sectional differences during the Civil War extended into politics after the war. While Republicans dominated areas of Unionist sentiment in the north …

• River Transportation

  … Keelboats operated from the 1780s until about the beginning of the Civil War. There were many varieties of … Mississippi River basin until after the Civil War and competed successfully with … from 1916 to 1970. During World War II, it also built four …

• Roadside Historical Markers

  … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/943. While activity waned after the early years, the centennial of the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193 and of "West Virginia statehood":http:// …