POCAHONTAS COUNTY, W.Va. (WOWK) — When West Virginia became a state on June 20, 1863, the Civil War was still raging, meaning that even though it was no longer part of Virginia, Confederate ...

Harper's Ferry, West Virginia (top) and Chickamauga, Georgia (bottom) were the sites of two Civil War battles. Eliot Dudik In “Poem of Wonder at the Resurrection of the Wheat,” Walt Whitman ...

By October 1861, what would become West Virginia had already seen several Civil War battles, including the first land battle of the Civil War in Philippi and dozens of skirmishes, according to ...

It was a point of supply for Meriwether Lewis’s Corps of Discovery, the site of John Brown’s abolitionist raid in 1859, a key Civil War battlefield ... Bipartisan Issue in West Virginia Press Release ...

And walk through Gettysburg Battlefield, gaining insight into why it's considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. Gain valuable insights from local historians and licensed ...

Strategically, the Eastern Theater was arguably the most important battleground of the Civil War; comprising the states of Virginia, West Virginia ... War's most famous battles.