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Harper, Robert S., Ohio Handbook of the Civil War. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio Historical Society, 1961. Harper, Robert S. "The Ohio Press in the Civil War." Civil War History 3.3 (1957): 221–252. excerpt; Jackson, W. Sherman. "Emancipation, negrophobia and Civil War politics in Ohio, 1863-1865." Journal of Negro History 65.3 (1980): 250–260 ...
The Battle of Lewisburg occurred in Greenbrier County, Virginia (now part of West Virginia), on May 23, 1862, during the American Civil War.A Union brigade commanded by Colonel George Crook soundly defeated a larger Confederate force commanded by Brigadier General Henry Heth.
The Untried Life: The Twenty-Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-8040-1139-6. Fugitt, Greg. Fantastic Shadows Upon the Ground: The Thirty–Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War. Milford, Ohio: Little Miami Publishing Co., 2011. Gillespie, Samuel L.
Tales from the Civil War Charles Aldrich of Fremont signed up at the first call in 1861 and three years later joined the New Jersey Volunteer Infantry. Not long after, he was taken prisoner ...
The Coal River Valley in the Civil War: West Virginia Mountains, 1861. Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-62619-660-5. Matheny, Herman E. Wood County, West Virginia, in Civil War Times. Parkersburg, West Virginia: Trans–Allegheny Books, 1987. Snell, Mark A. West Virginia and the Civil War: Mountaineers Are Always ...
Map of Kessler's Cross Lanes Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program.. On August 26, Brig. Gen. John B. Floyd, commanding Confederate forces in the Kanawha Valley, crossed the Gauley River to attack Col. Erastus Tyler's 7th Ohio Infantry Regiment encamped at Kessler's Cross Lanes.
Cuthbert, John A. and Jessie Poesch, David Hunter Strother; One of the Best Draughtsmen the Country Possesses, West Virginia University Press, 1997. McElfresh, Earl B., Maps and Mapmakers of the Civil War, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers in association with the History Book Club, 1999, page 251.
The Kanawha River Valley Campaign of 1862 is one of the most neglected events of the American Civil War. [119] The battlefields at Fayetteville and Charleston are now covered by modern towns. [ 120 ] [ 121 ] Some of the campaign's events and places are memorialized with historical markers.