 view gallery |   Battle of Guyandotte "Massacre of the 9th Infantry" - Huntington WV
in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Guyandotte was reportedly the only town on the Ohio River that voted in favor of secession. Union sympathizers were ill treated, and some fled to Ohio. posted by:  Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/25/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view gallery | Battle of Moorefield-Where the Fighting Started - Old Fields WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites The Confederate cavalry brigade of Gen. Bradley T. Johnson bivouacked in the fields to your left on August 7, 1864. Willow Wall (built ca. 1830), visible to your left down the road, was Johnson’s headquarters. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/25/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view gallery | Battle of Guyandotte-Federal Retaliation - Huntington WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites After capturing Guyandotte on November 10, 1861, and rounding up civilian Unionists and Federal recruits, Confederate forces under Col. John Clarkson and Col. Albert G. Jenkins began the next day to leave the town with their prisoners. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/25/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view gallery | Battle of Moorefield-Running for the Hills - Moorefield WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Confederate Gen. John McCausland's cavalry brigade was camped in the fields in front of you on this side of the South Branch of the Potomac River posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/25/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view gallery | Madie Carroll House-Saved from Destruction - Huntington WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites During the Civil War, this was the home of Mary Carroll, who narrowly managed to save it from destruction when much of Guyandotte was burned on November 11, 1861. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/25/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view gallery | McMechen House-Confederate Headquarters - Moorefield WV 26836 in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites This house was constructed about 1853 for Samuel A. McMechen, merchant, father of five daughters and deacon of Moorefield Presbyterian Church up the street on your right. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/25/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view gallery | Camp Northwest-Jackson’s Huntersville Line - Minnehaha Springs WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Huntersville (three miles northwest of here) in January 1862. Camp Northwest became Confederate Col. William L. Jackson’s headquarters and a supply depot for the outposts under Jackson’s command. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/25/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view gallery | William L. "Mudwall" Jackson 19th & 20th Virginia Cavalry C.S.A. - Hillsboro WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites William L. "Mudwall" Jackson and the main body of the 19th Virginia Cavalry were in camp near Mill Point on November 3, 1863, when they received a message from Lt. George W. Siple, posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/25/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view gallery | Battles For The Bridges-Gauley Bridge - A Town in Between - Gauley Bridge WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Both Confederate and Union forces considered the wooden covered bridge here strategically important because the James River and Kanawha Turnpike linked the Ohio River with the James River. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/22/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view gallery | Hammond House-Headquarters and Hospital - Hedgesville WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Dr. Allen C. Hammond constructed this Greek Revival-style house about 1838. During the Civil War, both sides used it periodically for a headquarters or a hospital. The war ruined Hammond, a strong Southern sympathizer. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/22/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view gallery | Engagement at Great Cacapon-Struggle in the Snow - Great Cacapon WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Before you is the village of Great Cacapon. After driving off the Federal garrison in Bath (present day Berkeley Springs) on January 4, 1862, Confederate Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson sought to tear up the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/22/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view gallery | Attack on Glenville "...the birds had flown" - Glenville WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites On August 31, 1862, Confederate Gen. Albert G. Jenkins and his cavalrymen left Weston after occupying the town and destroying Federal property there. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/22/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view gallery | Battle of Falling Waters Crockett-Porterfield House - Falling Waters WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites On the morning of July 2, 1861, Federal troops under General Robert Patterson crossed the Potomac River from Maryland and marched toward Martinsburg. Confederate Colonel Thomas J. Jackson’s command marched from Camp Stephens. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/22/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view gallery | Albert Gallatin Jenkins-Home of a General - Glenwood WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites This was the childhood home of Albert Gallatin Jenkins. He was born in 1830 and was educated at Marshall Academy, Jefferson College, and Harvard Law School. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/22/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view gallery | The Greenback Raid-Mosby's Men Strike It Rich - Shenandoah Junction WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites During the Civil War, this was Brown’s Shop Crossing on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. In October 1864, as Union Gen. Philip H. Sheridan’s army was beating Confederate Gen. Jubal A. Early’s army in the Shenandoah Valley posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/21/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view gallery | Battle of Falling Waters-Stuart’s Surprise - in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Here at Stumpy’s Hollow on the morning of July 2, 1861, Confederate Lieutenant Colonel J.E.B. Stuart captured a Union infantry company almost single-handedly. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/21/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view gallery | Camp Elkwater Gateway to the Tygart Valley - Huttonsville WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Following success at Rich Mountain in July 1861, Federal troops under Gen Joseph Reynolds built Camp Elkwater to deter Confederates from returning. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/21/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view gallery | The Battle At Droop Mountain - Hillsboro WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Nearly five months after West Virginia was admitted into the Union, the Confederate army of Brigadier General John Echols still occupied the prosperous Greenbrier Valley region of the new state. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/18/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view gallery | Cameron's Depot Engagement "What news now?" - Charles Town WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites On Sunday, August 21, 1864, as Sheridan marched to Halltown, Early attacked Sheridan’s mile-and-a Half long position on the hills here with Gen Robert E. Rodes’s infantry division. The fight lasted from about 9 A.M. until dusk. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/17/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view gallery | Rutherford House-“Go in!” - Charles Town WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites This house belonged to Thomas and Mary Rutherford in 1864, when a historic meeting occurred here on September 17 between Union Gens. Ulysses S. Grant and Philip H. Sheridan. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/17/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view gallery | Kesler's Raid-Capture of Upshur County Militia - Cleveland WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites In September 1863, Confederate Maj. Joseph K. Kesler, 19th Virginia Cavalry, led a raid from Pocahontas County through Upshur County and Centerville (present-day Rock Cave). posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/17/2020 last visited: 10/04/2021 |
 view gallery | Northwest Academy-Soldiers' Home - Clarksburg WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites From 1861 through 1865, Clarksburg was temporary home to hundreds of Union soldiers. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/17/2020 last visited: 10/05/2021 |
 view gallery | Clarksburg Defenses-Protecting the Town and Railroad - Clarksburg WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites The trenches here and on Pinnicinick Hill were constructed for the protection of Clarksburg and the vital North Western Virginia Railroad. The line ran west from Grafton, where it joined the Baltimore an Ohio Railroad. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/16/2020 last visited: 10/05/2021 |
 view gallery | Union Meetings "We intend… to… remain in the Union" - Clarksburg WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites An anonymous Clarksburg resident wrote prophetically on January 12, 1861, "We intend if eastern Virginia secedes to raise the banner of separate State sovereignty in Western Virginia and remain in the Union." posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/16/2020 last visited: 10/05/2021 |
 view gallery | War At The Front Door-Littlepage Mansion - Charleston WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites By July 13, Wise’s men had constructed fortifications on the Littlepage Farm to command the junction of the road to Ripley with the valley road leading to Charleston. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/15/2020 last visited: 10/05/2021 |
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