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From an elevation above the New River Gorge at about 2,200 feet, Sewell Mountain<\/a> increases eastward over the next 10 to 12 miles to 3,200 feet elevation. At this point Sewell Mountain appears as a ridge about three-quarters of a mile wide and eight miles long. In the Sewell Mountain Campaign in 1861, Gen. Robert E. Lee<\/a> established his headquarters on the summit, and it was here that he first saw Traveller<\/a>, the great war horse he later purchased for $200 in Confederate currency.<\/p>\n\n