Civil War

Civil War Adjutant General Papers
West Virginia Union Regiments
West Virginia Union Militia
West Virginia State Service Commission Records
West Virginia Civil War Medals
Researching Your Civil War Ancestor
The Civil War in West Virginia
Guyandotte Meeting, 20 April 1861
"Our War Illustrations" (Destruction of Harpers Ferry Armory)
United States Senate Report on the Destruction of the Harpers Ferry Armory
Cleon Moore: War Incidents
Roster of the Jefferson Guards
"The Beginning: Philippi, 1861"
"Battle of Philippi Recounted"
Official Reports from the Battle of Philippi
"A Desperate Operation: The First Surgical Instrument of The Civil War Was a Hand Saw"
Sources on J. E. Hanger
"Loyalties in Conflict: Union and Confederate Sympathy in Barbour County"
"War Comes to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal"
"Rich Mountain Revisted"
Confederate Reports on the Battle of Rich Mountain
William Rosecrans' Report on the Battle of Rich Mountain
George S. Patton to James C. Welch, 16 June 1861
"War-Time Reminiscences of James D. Sedinger, Company E, 8th Virginia Cavalry (Border Rangers)"
Letter Describing the Battle of Cheat Mountain
"The Battle of Carnifex Ferry"
Diary Entry of William Clark Reynolds on the Battle of Carnifex Ferry
Map of the Battle of Carnifex Ferry
Program for the Seventieth Anniversary Celebration of the Battle of Carnifex Ferry
"The Tragic Fate of Guyandotte"
Burning of Guyandotte
"The Battle of the Top of the Allegheny on December 13, 1861"
"The Battle of Alleghany Summit"
Official Reports on the Battle of Allegheny Mountain
"The Battle of Alleghany"
Burning of Sutton
"Razing of Building Recalls Burning Of Sutton During 1861"
Official Records Account of Burning of Sutton
"The Town Of Sutton"
"The Sutton Expedition"
Burning of Sutton
Letter Describing the Burning of Sutton
Burning of Princeton During Civil War
Battle of Blue's Gap
General John Fremont Evacuates the Town of Franklin
"Gray Forces Defeated in Battle of Lewisburg"
Official Reports from the Battle of Lewisburg
Recollections of the Rev. John McElhenney on the Battle of Lewisburg
Invitation to the Annual Reunion of the 36th Ohio Volunteers at Lewisburg
Destruction of Mercer Salt Works, extracted from Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes
Mercer Salt Works Destroyed
Siege of Harpers Ferry
"The Civil War Comes to Charleston"
Official Reports on the Sinking Creek Raid
Wheeling Intelligencer Articles on the Sinking Creek Raid
"How General William H. Powell won the Congressional Medal at Sinking Creek in the Civil War"
Letter, William H. Powell to H. J. Samuels, 1 May 1863 (Adjutant General Papers, Box 3, Folder 4)
Obituaries for William H. Powell
"Fayetteville, West Virginia, During the Civil War"
"Loyalty and Civil Liberty in Fayette County During the Civil War"
Jones-Imboden Raid
"The Way the Raiders Treat their Friends"
"The Battle of Fairmont"
"The Virginia Boys and the Fight at Fairmont"
"Exciting Scenes There Were When Jones' Raiders Came To Town 41 Years Ago To-Day"
Muster Card of Theo. Coffman, Killed at the Battle of Fairmont
Bible of Governor Francis Pierpont, partially burned by Confederate troops
Letter, F. W. Cunningham to Francis P. Pierpont, regarding parole status of Union militia captured at the Battle of Fairmont
George W. Peterkin to Father (from Gettysburg), 7 July 1863
The Battle of Bulltown
Report of Captain William H. Mattingly on the Battle of Bulltown
"My Recollection And Experiences Of The Civil War" (Battle of Bulltown)
"Our Victory At Bulltown"
"Childhood Memories of Old Fort At Bulltown Revived in Interesting Sketch"
"The Battle of Bulltown," by Roy Bird Cook
Battle of Droop Mountain
"The Battle of Droop Mountain"
Official Reports on the Battle of Droop Mountain
"Particulars of General Averill's Late Campaign" (Battle of Droop Mountain)
Letter, James McChesney to Mother, 14 November 1863 (Battle of Droop Mountain)
"State Park Dedicated" (Droop Mountain)
Program for Dedication of Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park
Extract From Report of the Droop Mountain Battlefield Commission
Speech by John D. Sutton to the House of Delegates Concerning Droop Mountain Battlefield
Newspaper Advertisement for Dedication of Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park
"Capture of the Government Steamer B. C. Levi"
"Capture of the Steamer B. C. Levi - Independent Scouts"
John Price to Jacob M. Rife, 24 October 1864
"The Raid on Piedmont and the Crippling of Franz Sigel in the Shenandoah Valley"
"Excerpts From Swann's 'Prison Life at Fort Delaware'"
Birth of David Hunter Strother
Sources on David Hunter Strother
"Death of David Hunter Strother"
"The McNeill Rangers: A Study in Confederate Guerrilla Warfare"
Death of John Hanson McNeill
McNeill's Rangers Last Raid on the B & O
Execution of John Yates Beall
Proceedings in the Case of John Yates Beall
Report of C. S. Agent Jacob Thompson
Unattributed Biography of Jesse Reno
"General Reno"
"The Late General Reno"
"Old Account Describes In Detail Death of Gen. Stonewall Jackson"
Sketch on the Life of Stonewall Jackson
Letter, Thomas J. Jackson to J. M. Bennett, 25 February 1862
Sources on Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson
"Life of Brigadier General John McCausland"
Death of Confederate General John McCausland
"M'Causland Is Taken By Death In His 91st Year"
"The Civil War Record of Albert Gallatin Jenkins, C.S.A."
"The Confederate Postal Service in West Virginia"
"Confederate Soldiers: Why Did They Enlist?" (Part One)
"Confederate Soldiers: Why Did They Enlist?" (Part Two)
Joseph Snider Letters
"Nathan Goff, Jr., in the Civil War"
Joseph A. J. Lightburn to George, 17 June 1863
Biography of Thomas Maley Harris
Biographical Sketch of Thomas Maley Harris
"Gen. Harris Is Claimed By Death"
Letter From Thomas Maley Harris Regarding the Destruction of Sutton
"The First West Virginia Infantry"
The Battle Flags Of The State (Fifth [West] Virginia)
Sources on Belle Boyd
Sources on Nancy Hart
"Five Tri-State Women During the Civil War"
"A Civil War Diary From French Creek: Selections From the Diary of Sirene Bunten"
Sources on Anna Jarvis
Establishment of Mothers Day
Sketches by Joseph H. Diss Debar
"The Confederate Monument Dedicated to the Confederate Soldiers of Monroe County"
"The Monument to the Confederate Soldiers of Monroe County Gloriously Dedicated"
"Confederate Reunion" (Annual Reunion of West Virginia Confederate Veterans)
"Praises Moorefield" (Annual Reunion of West Virginia Confederate Veterans)
Newspaper Advertisement for the Annual Reunion of West Virginia Confederate Veterans
West Virginia Confederate Reunion, Beckley, 1918
West Virginia Soldier Bugler at Surrender of General Robert E. Lee

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