Pictorial Guide to West Virginia Civil War Sites - 1990 - $17 - (West Boylston, MA)
Pictorial Guide to West Virginia's Civil War Sites and Related Information by Stan Cohen ---------------------------------------------- Copyright 1990 ---------------------------------------------- Large format Paperback 120 pages, overall Very Good. Light edge wear, but clean inside. Lightly read - if at all. Highly Illustrated with maps, photos and period illustrations. ----------------------------------------------In contrast to Cohen's other book, "The Civil War in West Virginia, A Pictorial History," This work is more focused. Cohen takes the reader thru West Virginia county by county. In each chapter he shows Civil War History specifically relating to that particular county. An excellent companion to his "pictorial" work. -----------------------------------------------------------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. In the summer of 1861, Union troops under General George McClellan drove off Confederate troops under General Robert E. Lee. This essentially freed Unionists in the northwestern counties of Virginia to form their own government as a result of the Wheeling Convention. After Lee's departure, western Virginia continued to be a target of Confederate raids, even after the creation of the new state in 1863. These actions focused both on supplying the Confederate Army with provisions as well as attacking the vital Baltimore and Ohio Railroad that linked the northeast with the midwest, as exemplified in the Jones-Imboden Raid. Guerrilla warfare also gripped the new state, especially in the Allegheny Mountain counties to the east, where loyalties were much more divided than in the Unionist northwest part of the state. ---------------------------------------------- Postage is free - by media mail. I will insure more expensive packages at my cost. Check my other auctions for Civil War related books, documents, and ephemera. Thank you for looking !
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