The Maryland Campaign is known primarily (by most) for the Battle of Antietam. However, two battles contested in present day West Virginia played pivotal roles…
The Maryland Campaign is known primarily (by most) for the Battle of Antietam. However, two battles contested in present day West Virginia played pivotal roles…
Neighbors, brothers, and friends took up arms, not against a familiar foe but against each other. Such were the days of the Civil War. Despite…
On the morning of September 19, 1862, McClellan awoke to find the Army of Northern Virginia had vanished. He sent cavalry to investigate. The cavalry was ordered…
Jesse Lee Reno Jesse Lee Reno was born forty years to the day before West Virginia gained statehood, on June 20, 1823. Jesse, the third…