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Union General Jacob D. Cox and about 5,000 Kanawha Division troops were reassigned to the defense of Washington
The Charleston area first experienced Civil War hostilities during the September 1861 campaign that culminated in a Union victory at the Battle of Carnifex Ferry on the Gauley River in Nicholas County. Federal forces controlled the region until th...
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