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Views in and Around Martinsburg, Virginia by A. R. Waud (Harper's Weekly, December 3, 1864). The U.S. state of West Virginia was formed out of western Virginia and added to the Union as a direct result of the American Civil War (see History of West Virginia), in which it became the only modern state to have declared its independence from the Confederacy.
A Perfect Picture of Hell: Eyewitness Accounts by Civil War Prisoners from the 12th Iowa. University of Iowa Press. Gray, Michael P. (2001). The Business of Captivity in the Chemung Valley: Elmira and Its Civil War Prison (2001) Hesseltine William B., ed. (1972). Civil War Prisons. reprints among other articles: Futch, Ovid (1962).
The Battle of Philippi formed part of the Western Virginia Campaign of the American Civil War and was fought in and around Philippi, Virginia (now West Virginia), on June 3, 1861. A Union Army victory, it was the first organized land action of the war, though generally viewed as a skirmish rather than a battle.
American Civil War prisoners of war held by the United States (57 P) Pages in category "American Civil War prisoners of war" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 213 total.
Defunct prisons in the United States by state (30 C) ... American Civil War prison camps (52 P) D. Defunct prisons in insular areas of the United States (1 C) I.
West Virginia regions 1863. West Virginia was created out of three regions of Virginia; the Northwest, the Shenandoah Valley, and the Southwest. [15] When secession from the United States became an issue for Virginia, there was little support for it in the counties bordering the states of Ohio and Pennsylvania, but there was more support in the central and southern counties of what became West ...
Pages in category "Prisoner-of-war camps in the United States" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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