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  • Upshur County

    … Camp Normal School, 1913–18, whose building still stands today. Throughout the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … greatest calamity to befall the county during the war was the capture of the Upshur Militia …

  • Valley Falls State Park

    … Fargo office, post office, and a ferry. The Civil War saw considerable activity at the falls, as the B&O moved … and supplies through the region. In addition, many gunstocks were manufactured for the Civil War. In 1886, a fire burned much of …

  • Jim Vance

    … took part in some of its bloodiest episodes. Vance, like Devil Anse a Confederate guerrilla during the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193, was suspected in the 1865 murder of Union veteran …

  • Irish

    … at Weston was built. The Lewis County Irish, as so many others, were fervent Union supporters during the Civil War, and a great portion of Company B, 15th Virginia Infantry, under Michael Egan, were Irish recruits. …

  • Virginia’s Chapel

    … octagonal cupola atop the entrance. In its early years, the chapel was nondenominational. During the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193, both sides used the building at different times. …

  • Camp Piatt

    Camp Piatt was one of many U.S. military camps situated in West Virginia during the Civil War. The camp was located in Belle, at Malones Landing about 15 miles south of Charleston. The camp was strategically …

  • Jackson County

    … settlement was made by three Revolutionary War veterans, William Hannaman, Benjamin Cox, … Countians had mixed allegiances during the Civil War, provoking bitter antagonisms that … Graham (1907–82), an aviation editor, war correspondent for the _New York …

  • Wayne County

    … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/930, a Revolutionary War hero who later defeated Ohio … Cabell County, expanded rapidly after the Civil War. "Huntington":https:// … stronghold, Fort Pierpont, during the "Civil War":https://www.wvencyclopedia. …

  • Jacob Beeson Jackson

    … describes as Western Virginia’s pre-Civil War oligarchy. By the time of … time to Wheeling, where during the Civil War he was arrested for … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1168. Jackson had been a Copperhead during the Civil War, as the Southern-sympathizing …

  • Lily Irene Jackson

    … /941., who was a member of the prominent Jackson family and later an important federal judge. During the Civil War, Lily at the age of 12 assisted federal troops in Parkersburg by guiding them to land belonging …

  • Mudwall Jackson

    … president of the Virginia state senate. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he was serving as a … Southern loyalist. With the coming of war he sought to control the … wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1964. After the war Jackson returned to Parkersburg but …

  • Carnifex Ferry Battlefield State Park

    … wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1747, 12 miles south of Summersville, this 156-acre park encompasses the Carnifex Ferry Civil War battlefield. Here, on September 10, 1861, Union forces led by Gen. "William S. Rosecrans …

  • Carpenter Family

    … goes with it. It seems that another Solomon Carpenter, known as ‘‘Devil Sol,’’ was a prisoner during the Civil War at Camp Chase, Ohio, and fiddled his way to freedom playing this tune in a prisoners’ fiddle …

  • Isaiah Welch

    … County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1103 in the legislature of Confederate Virginia throughout the Civil War, while also attaining the rank of captain in the Confederate military service. In cooperation …

  • Anna Reeves Jarvis

    … supplies and safe sewage disposal. During the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193, Jarvis believed the work clubs … both Union and Confederate soldiers. After the war, Jarvis planned a Mothers’ Friendship Day to …

  • Albert Gallatin Jenkins

    … law in Western Virginia and served in the U.S. Congress from 1857 to 1861. At the start of the Civil War he enlisted recruits for a Virginia unit called the Border Rangers and was elected their captain. In July …

  • The Casto Hole

    … ;Jackson County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/931. It was a Unionist refuge during the Civil War and achieved notoriety in the scurrilous contemporary ballad ‘‘The Casto Hole’’ by Elihugh Powers. It …

  • West Virginia Archives and History

    … of the state, the Archives and History section is also responsible for the administration of several programs. Unclaimed Civil War medals continue to be distributed to descendants of the state’s Union soldiers under the …

  • Ceredo

    … in the South. In 1861, when the "Civil War":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193 erupted, Ceredo became a Union stronghold … (West) Virginia Infantry under Col. John Ziegler. The war brought hard times to Ceredo. Only a …

  • Jones-Imboden Raid

    … ‘‘Grumble’’ Jones and "John D. Imboden":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/833 carried the Civil War into north central West Virginia. Their goals were to disrupt the "Baltimore & Ohio …

  • West Virginia National Guard

    … were quickly mobilized when necessary in war time. Militia units provided frontier service … of 1846-1848. During the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia. … Guard was dramatically changed after World War II. Artillery units, transportation, and …

  • Charleston

    … service in the "French and Indian War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … completed in the 1820s. When the "Civil War":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … to return. At the beginning of the war, Charleston was a Virginia town with …

  • Kanawha County

    … and later, especially after Dunmore’s War temporarily reduced native opposition. Charleston … feet above flood stage. After the Civil War, Kanawha County participated fully … of Women Voters president Becky Cain; civil rights activist "Leon Sullivan& …

  • Cheat Mountain

    … elevation of 3,557 feet. During the Civil War, Union troops set up a camp near Cheat Bridge, known as Fort … fought there in September 1861. After the Civil War, the magnificent "red spruce":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/38 …

  • Battle of Cheat Mountain

    The Battle of Cheat Mountain was a Civil War battle fought near the Randolph-Pocahontas County line on September 12, 1861. It was an important loss to the Confederacy, with Gen. "Robert E. Lee":http://www. …

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