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  • Philippi Covered Bridge

    … and roofing materials during the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org … focus of both sides during the Civil War. On June 3, 1861, there was a "brief skirmish" … the first land battle of the Civil War involving organized troops. The …

  • Battle of Pigeon Roost

    … , "Mercer County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1764, May 17, 1862, during the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193. The battle culminated a month-long series of …

  • Martin Robison Delany

    … February 1865, he was commissioned as a major in the U.S. Colored Troops. He was the only African-American Civil War officer to be given a field command. He died in Wilberforce, Ohio. In 2017, a new highway bridge …

  • Pocahontas County

    … attacks during the "French and Indian War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … . In the years before the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org … Meeting House, built before the Revolutionary War. It continues today as the Wesley …

  • The Department of West Virginia

    … reorganization of Union forces in the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193. It included all Union forces … when most of its men were discharged at the close of the Civil War. The Department of West Virginia should …

  • Potomac State College of WVU

    … 17 acres of land for the school on Fort Hill, formerly the location of Fort Fuller. During the Civil War, this fort had played a critical role in maintaining Union control of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad …

  • Princeton

    … houses and two hotels. During the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/562. Following the Civil War, Princeton grew, a bank was … was used for flight training during World War II. The former airport is now …

  • John Quincy Dickinson

    … 20, 1831-November 26, 1925) was born in Bedford County, Virginia. During the Civil War he enlisted in Company A of the Second Virginia Cavalry, commanded by … at Fort Delaware until the end of the war. In 1865, Dickinson came to the Kanawha …

  • Doddridge County

    … burgeoning rail industry with crossties. The Civil War interrupted the development of the … West Virginia Volunteer Infantry. Before the war, a tavern and stagecoach stop about … but new drilling began during World War II. Doddridge experienced a second …

  • Putnam County

    … a progressive, growing community. When the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … and the older men with families found war-time jobs at the "Nitro& … of the railroad. Nitro, a "World War I":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

  • Droop Mountain

    … of one of the most important "Civil War battles":http://www.wvencyclopedia. … include picnic shelters, overnight cabins, a small Civil War museum, and an observation tower … this mill, minié balls from the Civil War were frequently found embedded in …

  • Battle of Droop Mountain

    … , located three miles south of Hillsboro in Pocahontas County, was the site of one of the most important Civil War battles in West Virginia, as well as the last large-scale engagement fought on our soil. The …

  • Eastern Panhandle

    … 336 for the Union during the "Civil War":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … arsenal at Harpers Ferry and the ensuing Civil War. Federal and Confederate armies repeatedly invaded the region during the war. "Romney":https://www.wvencyclopedia …

  • John Echols

    … remained there until the outbreak of the Civil War. Echols represented Monroe County at … was briefly in command there. After the war, Echols became a founding director of … to Staunton to practice law following the war. He was twice married, first to …

  • Minnehaha Springs

    … Knapps Creek and Douthat Creek, about nine miles east of Marlinton in Pocahontas County. During the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193 the Confederate Army had a camp, Camp Northwest, …

  • Moccasin Rangers

    … the first two years of the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … /737 by many. According to West Virginia Civil War historian Boyd Stutler, they were … as common criminals rather than prisoners of war. Indicted, tried, and sentenced to prison …

  • Foodways

    … division in Virginia and the eventual formation of the new state. Identification with the North during the Civil War is reflected in West Virginia’s food preferences. From areas to the north they adapted scrapple, …

  • Monongalia County

    … intermittently until 1868. During the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … stimulated by the demands of World War I. Completion of the Monongahela … most spectacular development occurred after World War II, when enrollment doubled and …

  • Monroe County

    … industry that supplied powder for the Revolutionary War and later the Confederate Army. During the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … Union forces for three years after the war. The early settlers established Presbyterian, …

  • Formation of West Virginia

    … was an outcome of the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia. … formation was shaped by both the war’s political and military contexts. … a measure made expedient by a war, is no precedent for times … change to result from the Civil War. <p>& …

  • Moorefield

    … . Although Southern in sympathy, the town housed whichever troops were in local control during the Civil War. The Confederate "McNeill’s Rangers":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1664 operated in the …

  • Fort Boreman

    Fort Boreman was a Civil War fort. Originally called Fort Logan, the Union garrison overlooked the confluence of the Ohio … which three men were hanged in 1866. Following the war, the fort site became a favorite overlook and picnic …

  • Friars Hole Cave

    … ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/171 was mined in the cave near the Snedegar entrance during the Civil War. All of the entrances of this non-commercial cave are privately owned and several are on lands …

  • Uncle Dyke Garrett

    … /1451 (Company D 36th Virginia Infantry) at the start of the Civil War but was made the company’ … in one ear. He deplored the war, denouncing it as against God’s … thinking seriously about Christianity after the war and was converted by Alexander M. …

  • Gauley Bridge

    … up was of strategic significance during the "Civil War":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193. Possession of Gauley Bridge was … the scene of heavy fighting early in the war. During 1861 and 1862, Gauley Bridge, originally …

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