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"West Virginia's Constitutional Critique of Virginia: The Revolution of 1861–1863," Civil War History, March 2011, Vol. 57 Issue 1, pp 9–47; Talbott, F. "Some Legislative and Legal Aspects of the Negro Question in West Virginia during the Civil War and Reconstruction," West Virginia History, Jan 1963, Vol. 24 Issue 2, pp 110–133
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.
During the American Civil War, the county was divided, but tilted toward the Union, and suffered from raids and bushwackers. At the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861 , its joint delegate with upstream Roane County, lawyer Franklin P. Turner , twice voted for secession after rival meetings held by pro- and anti-secession forces in Jackson ...
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 .
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.
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 ...
McKinney, Tim, The Civil War in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, Quarrier Press, 2004, ISBN 1-891852-36-1; Matheny, H.E., Wood County, West Virginia, In Civil War Times, with an Account of the Guerrilla Warfare in the Little Kanawha Valley, Trans-Allegheny Books, Inc., 1987 ISBN 0-9619132-0-7
Jenkins' Trans-Allegheny Raid was a Confederate cavalry expedition in the American Civil War that took place in Western Virginia (now West Virginia) and Ohio during August and September 1862. The raid was led by Brigadier General Albert G. Jenkins , and it started on August 22 as a preliminary step in Confederate Major General William W. Loring ...