Civil War in West Virginia - Pictorial History - 1982 (1st Revised) Edition - $17 - (West Boylston, MA)

Civil War in West Virginia A Pictorial History by Stan Cohen ---------------------------------------------- Published in 1982 - the "First Revised Edition" ---------------------------------------------- Large format Paperback 150 pages, overall good or better. Light edge wear, but clean inside. Lightly read - if at all. Highly Illustrated with maps, photos and period illustrations. ----------------------------------------------A nice photographic / illustrated look at the Civil War history of West Virginia. Maps and pictures show old and new areas where the Civil War was fought in the state. -----------------------------------------------------------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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