The Civil War
In West Virginia
A Pictorial History

by Stan Cohen

Front Cover:

This book is loaded with illustrations. It contains maps, facsimiles and many black and white vintage photographs. The book contains some text but the majority of the illustrations are photographs. The book was published in 1976 by Gateway Printing & Litho, Missoula, Montana. The soft cover book measures 5 5/8 inches by 8 ¾ inches and contains x, 191 pages. The cover shows signs of wear and is in good condition. The cover is securely attached. The glue has dried a bit and some of the leaves are loose but all pages are present and accounted for. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of the book is good plus.


Title Page

Contents:

    Forword
  1. Prelude to War
  2. A Call to Arms, Secession, Restoration and Statehood
  3. 1861 – A Year of Strategy and Blunder
  4. 1862 – Consolidation
  5. 1863 – The Year of the Raids
  6. 1864-65 – Last Actions of the War
  7. Other Points of Interest
  8. Personalities North and South

    9. Bibliography
    Index


    Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Roundhouse at Martinsburg, Berkeley county. Part of this structure survived burning of railroad facilities by General Jackson on June 20, 1861.


    Top: Pier of Fetterman Covered Bridge across Tygart Valley River at Grafton, Taylor County on Route 50. Used by both armies. Built in 1835, destroyed by flood 1888.

    Bottom: Jackson family cemetery in Clarksburg, Harrison County on Route 50. Contains most of the relatives of General Stonewall Jackson’s family.


    Halfway House at Ansted, Fayette County on old Route 60. Built in 1810 and used as the headquarters of the Chicago Grey Dragons winter of 1861-62.

    Excerpt - Foreward:
    One has only to travel through the West Virginia countryside to appreciate the difficulties the Civil War soldier had in waging war there. Although the state was not the scene of major battles that shaped the outcome of the war (except perhaps for Harpers Ferry in 1862), the occurrence of more than 600 major battles, skirmishes and raids between 1861 and 1865 showed that both North and South considered West Virginia a vital piece of real estate.

    it was brother against brother, neighbor against neighbor in this theater of war. The state furnished some 30,000 troops to the Union and from 7,000 to 9,000 to the Confederacy. The state was one of the highest in percentage of total population enlisting as Federal troops. These soldiers fought near their homes and in every distant zone of the war…
    End excerpt


    Top Left: John Echols, Colonel of a “Stonewall” Regiment at Bull Run; Later led a Brigade in Lee’s Army.

    Top Right: General John B. Floyd.

    Bottom Left: General Robert S. Garnett.

    Bottom Right: Nancy Hart


    Monument at Valley Mountain Campsite of General Lee’s Command in 1861. Near Mace, Pocahontas County.


    Back Cover – The Secessionist Army – Irregular Riflemen of the Alleghanies, Virginia

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