Nine Battle Pages Updated – And What Comes Next

Over the past several months, we have done a deep dive into the Tygart Valley–Cheat River Campaign and updated nine battle pages with fully expanded narratives, orders of battle, casualties, contemporary newspaper articles, and lists of sources. Check them out:

• Action at Fetterman
• Action at Glover’s Gap
• Action at Philippi
• Action at Righter’s House
• Action at Bowman’s Place
• Action at Buckhannon
• Battle of Bellington / Laurel Hill
• Battle of Rich Mountain
• Battle of Corrick’s Ford

We also explored several 135th anniversary events for the months of February, March, and April. We still have a lot more to go. Here is what is coming up:

• May 23 – Union General Benjamin Butler orders the 1st Vermont Regiment to occupy the town of Hampton in an effort to disrupt the secession vote.
• May 28 – A Union patrol surprises an irregular secessionist band at Glover’s Gap along the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, killing 65-year-old Stephen Roberts.
• June 6 – Governor John Letcher signs General Orders, No. 25, transferring control of Virginia’s Provisional Army and Navy to the Confederate government.
• June 20 – The Second Wheeling Convention unanimously elects Francis H. Pierpont as Governor of the Restored Government of Virginia.
• June 30 – The 7th Ohio Infantry enters Weston, Virginia and seizes gold earmarked for construction of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum.
• July 5 – Lt. Col. Charles D. Dreux is killed in a failed ambush along Cedar Lane near Smith’s Farm in present-day Newport News, Virginia.
• July 12 – Confederate forces led by Maj. John Bell Hood skirmish with Union forces led by Lt. Oscar von Heringen at Cedar Lane in present-day Newport News, Virginia.
• July 17 – In western Virginia, Confederates led by Lt. Col. George S. Patton, Sr. inflict a painful defeat on Ohio troops invading the Kanawha Valley at Scary Creek.
• July 18 – Brig. Gen. James Longstreet’s brigade repels a Union reconnaissance in force across Bull Run Creek at Blackburn Ford.

We’d also like to update our battle page for the Skirmish at Glenville.

We hope you continue to join us for this exciting exploration of early Civil War Virginia!