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2. List of Medal of Honor recipients from the 1st West Virginia ...

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   The First Virginia Cavalry, not to be confused with the Confederate 1st Virginia Cavalry, and later renamed the 1st West Virginia Cavalry Regiment, was formed during the summer and fall of 1861 to fight for the Union in the American Civil War. Although it started slowly, it became one of the most effective of all West Virginia regiments.

3. James Wolfe Ripley - Wikipedia

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   James Wolfe Ripley (December 10, 1794 – March 16, 1870) was an American soldier who served as a brigadier general in the Union Army during the Civil War. In 1861, he was selected to be the 5th Chief of Ordnance for the United States Army Ordnance Department. In the early days of the war, he was instrumental in not modernizing the artillery's ...

4. List of West Virginia archives - Wikipedia

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   West Virginia Archives and History: Government Institution: Kanawha County: The West Virginia Archives and History houses materials on the state from its earliest date to the present, including letters, diaries, maps, photographs, newspapers, state government records, and audiovisual materials. [31] The Ruth Ann Musick Library at Fairmont State ...

5. West Virginia Archives and History - Wikipedia

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   West Virginia Archives and History is the state agency that collects and preserves materials on the state and makes them available to the public. Located in Charleston, West Virginia, this section of the Department of Arts, Culture and History oversees the West Virginia Archives and History Library, a non-lending research facility, and the West Virginia State Archives, one of the state’s ...

6. Ripley, West Virginia - Wikipedia

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   During the American Civil War, Ripley remained under the control of the Union except for a brief incursion by the Confederate General Albert G. Jenkins in September 1862. The last public hanging in West Virginia took place in Ripley in 1897, when John Morgan was hanged for murder.

7. List of West Virginia Civil War Union units - Wikipedia

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   West Virginia, which seceded from Virginia to join the Union, provided the following units to the Union Army during the American Civil War.Units raised in the western counties prior to the creation of the state of West Virginia were often known as, "loyal Virginians," who formed the Restored government of Virginia in Wheeling, West Virginia in 1861, unanimously electing Francis H. Pierpont as ...