 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 |
 view gallery | Baptism By Fire-To Arms! - Charleston WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites In July 1861, this area swarmed with retreating Confederate troops and pursuing Federal forces. Union Gen. George B. McClelland had ordered Gen. Jacob Cox to march his 3, 000 raw Ohio recruits into western Virginia. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/15/2020 last visited: 08/29/2023 |
 view gallery | Battle of Charleston-Lightburn's Retreat - Charleston WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Leading a combined command of infantry, cavalry, and horse artillery, Loring struck at Federal forces in the Kanawha River Valley. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/15/2020 last visited: 10/05/2021 |
 view gallery | Military Occupation-A Bitter Pill to Swallow - Charleston WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Union and Confederate forces occupied Charleston several times during the Civil War. The town was placed under martial law, and loyalties among the residents were divided. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/14/2020 last visited: 10/05/2021 |
 view gallery | Battle of Charleston-Downtown Battleground - Charleston WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Leading a combined command of infantry, cavalry, and horse artillery, Loring struck at Federal forces in the Kanawha River Valley. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/14/2020 last visited: 10/05/2021 |
 view gallery | Camp Hopkins-Memorial to a Friend - Hedgesville WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites In December 1862, Union Gen. Benjamin F. Kelley stationed detachments of the 54th Pennsylvania and 1st West Virginia Infantry regiments here to guard and repair the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, a main supply route between the Ohio River and the national capital region. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/14/2020 last visited: 10/05/2021 |
 view gallery | Charleston 's Civil War Sites-The Past is Present - Charleston WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Two significant dwellings that stood elsewhere during the Civil War have been relocated to this park for public use: posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/14/2020 last visited: 10/05/2021 |
 view gallery | Burning Springs Oil Field - Burning Springs WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites On May 9, 1863, Confederate Gen. William E. “Grumble” Jones led his cavalrymen here to Burning Springs (Oiltown) before continuing southeast. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/14/2020 last visited: 10/05/2021 |
 view gallery | Presidential Presence-Tending to Family, Fort, and Ferry - Charleston WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Camp White, the main Union camp at Charleston, was located directly across the Kanawha River from here. Col. Rutherford B. Hayes, 23rd Ohio Infantry, occupied the camp and Charleston in March 1863. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/14/2020 last visited: 10/05/2021 |
 view gallery | Jenkins in Buckhannon-The Raiders Strike - Buckhannon WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Confederate Gen. Albert G. Jenkins and his cavalry halted a few miles east of Buckhannon on the Staunton and Parkersburg Turnpike on August 30, 1862. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/14/2020 last visited: 10/05/2021 |
 view gallery | McClellan's Buckhannon Camp Prelude to Rich Mountain - Buckhannon WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites In one of the first important Union victories of the Civil War, on July 11, 1861, Union Gen. George B. McClellan’s forces defeated part of Confederate Gen. Robert S Garnett’s command east of here at Rich Mountain. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/14/2020 last visited: 10/05/2021 |
 view gallery | Battle of Bulltown- "Come and take us" - Napier WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites On the hill in front of you are two fortifications that Union Gen. George B. McClellan ordered constructed late in1861. They guarded the wooden covered bridge located here on the Weston and Gauley Bridge Turnpike. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/12/2020 last visited: 10/05/2021 |
 view gallery | Fight at Bloomery Gap-A Futile Affair - Bloomery WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites A militia brigade under Col. Jacob Sencendiver, 67th Virginia Militia, occupied Bloomery Gap to threaten the railroad and Union-occupied territory near the Potomac River. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/12/2020 last visited: 10/05/2021 |
 view gallery | Randolph County Jail-Confining the "Bogus State Sheriff" - Beverly WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Encountering Sheriff Jesse Frank Phares on the same mission for the town’s Union Garrison, Harding fired and wounded Phares as he fled back to Beverly. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/12/2020 last visited: 10/05/2021 |
 view gallery | Barboursville Engagement-Fighting for the Kanawha Valley - Barboursville WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Confederate Gen. Henry A. Wise’s army occupied the Lower Kanawha Valley in June 1861. Union Gen. George B. McClellan assigned the task of driving them out to Gen. Jacob D. Cox, who massed his troops in Gallipolis, Ohio. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/12/2020 last visited: 10/05/2021 |
 view gallery | Engagement at Arnoldsburg Divided Loyalties - Arnoldsburg WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Early in 1862, the 11th West Virginia Infantry in Spencer established an outpost here in Arnoldsburg to suppress Confederate guerilla activity. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/12/2020 last visited: 10/05/2021 |
 view gallery | Tyree Tavern-Confederate and Union Headquarters - Ansted WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites During his and Gen. Henry Alexander Wise’s unsuccessful Kanawha Valley campaign, Confederate Gen. John B. Floyd made his headquarters here, August 17-18, 1861. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/11/2020 last visited: 10/05/2021 |
 view gallery | Clay Kenner House - Rogersville, TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Tennessee Civil War Discovery Trail marker in Rogersville, Tennessee. posted by:  saopaulo1 location: Tennessee date approved: 08/11/2020 last visited: 08/11/2020 |
 view gallery | Rogersville Engagements - Rogersville, TN in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Tennessee Civil War Discovery Trail marker on courthouse lawn in Rogersville, Tennessee. posted by: saopaulo1 location: Tennessee date approved: 08/11/2020 last visited: 08/11/2020 |
 view gallery | Westlake Cemetery-Burial Place of Julia Jackson - Ansted WV in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites This is one of the earliest identified cemeteries west of the Allegheny Mountains. The cemetery is best known for the grave of Julia Beckwith Neale Jackson Woodson, the mother of Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson. posted by: Don.Morfe location: West Virginia date approved: 08/10/2020 last visited: 10/05/2021 |
 view gallery | Ambush At Anker's Shop - Sterling, Virginia in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Civil War site located in front of the Loudoun campus of Northern Virginia Community College posted by: flyingmoose location: Virginia date approved: 08/03/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Maryland's Eastern Shore-Hundreds of Enslaved and Free Black Men Enlisted-Pocomoke City, MD in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Located in the Maryland Welcome Center at the Virginia/Maryland State Line on US 13. posted by: Markerman62 location: Maryland date approved: 08/02/2020 last visited: 07/30/2020 |
 view gallery | Historic Cemeteries - Oakton, Virginia in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Civil War Trail site at Flint Hill & Oakton Church of the Brethren. posted by: flyingmoose location: Virginia date approved: 07/27/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Custer's First Last Stand A "Living Triangle" - Louisa VA in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Nearby stood Trevilian Station, south of which Confederate Gen. Wade Hampton had parked his wagon train on the evening of June 10, 1864. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 07/24/2020 last visited: 10/05/2021 |
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