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Pages in category "American Civil War sites in West Virginia" The following 67 pages are in this category, out of 67 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio County, West Virginia. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1]
Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
Military Reminiscences of the Civil War Volume I - April 1861-November 1863. New York, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 978-3-84951-384-9; Johnston, David E. (1906). A History of Middle New River Settlements and Contiguous Territory. Huntington, West Virginia: Standard Printing and Publishing Co. OCLC 1029855740
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.
Pages in category "Battles of the American Civil War in West Virginia" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Fort Mill Ridge Civil War Trenches are battle trenches in West Virginia that were originally dug between 1861 and 1862 to be later used in 1863 for the civil war. [2] These trenches lined with chestnut logs by the Confederate artillery during the American Civil War to defend the approaches to Romney on the Northwestern Turnpike and the ...
The town of Romney, Virginia (now West Virginia), traded hands between the Union Army and Confederate States Army no fewer than 10 times during the American Civil War, assuming the occupying force spent at least one night in the town. (Oral tradition and an erroneous state historical marker claim the town changed hands 56 times.)