New Cumberland in Hancock County, West Virginia — The American South (Appalachia)
Hancock County Civil War Memorial
Photographed by Craig Doda, March 29, 2025
1. Hancock County Civil War Memorial Marker
Inscription.
Hancock County Civil War Memorial. .
W. A. Atkinson Post No. 18 Dep't W. Va. Grand Army of the Republic 1861 - Veteran - 1866 Appomattox.. Yet loved ones have fallen and still where they sleep a sorrowing nation shall silently weep. And spring's brightest flowers with gratitude strew o'er those who once cherished the red, white, and blue.
To the perpetual memory of the defenders of the Union, 1861-1865. Erected by the Citizens of Hancock Co., May 30th, 1886., Cedar Creek.. Applegate, Benton . Arbuthnot, John S. . Armstrong, C. B. . Aten, James . ★Atkinson, Wm. A. . Atwell, William . ★Austin, Nathan C. . Baggs, Robert . Baker, Elijah . Bailey, Jesse . Bailey, John S. . Bailey, Joseph . Baldwin, Perry . ★Barton, John W. . Baum, John . Baxter, John . Abrams, James M. . Adams, John . Adams, Joseph O. . Ainsworth, James C. . Allison, Alex B. . ★Allison, Daniel . Allison, James Of Chas. . Allison, John . Allison, John G. . Allison, John P. . Allison, John W. . Allison, James C. . Allison, Peter P. . Allison, Richard O. . Allison, William . Allison, William G. . Allison, William H. . ★Allison, W. W. . Anderson, C. C. . Anderson, Vicknell O. . Apple. Andrew . Apple, Theodore L. . Apple, Geo. W. . Baxter, John R. . Baxter, William H. . Beal, Samuel . ★Beal, William . Bennett, Mansfield L. . Bernard, John . Bernard, Thomas B. . Bernard, Van B. . Bird, George H. H. . Bird, Francis . Bliss, Isaac N. . Bonsall, Albert E. . Bonsall, John A. . Bonsall, William G. . Boon, Nathan . Boom, Hamilton . Boyce, Robert . Boyd, James H. . Bradley, James . ★Bradley, Thomas W. . Brandon, George W. . ★Brandon, Martin V. . Baker, Thos., Milby, Robt. . Miller, William M. . ★Miner, Samuel H. . Moore, Abraham . Moore, Ezekiel J. . Moore, Clinton . Moore, Samuel M. . Moore, Thomas M. . Moore, W. H. . Moorehead, George W. . Morrow, James E. . Morrow, John C. . Morrow, Robt. . Morrow, W. W. . Murray, John C. . Moore, Sml. Marks . Mumford, Jacob . Mushrush, John . Myers, T. Finley . ★McCarty, James A. . McCarty, John M. . McCay, James H. . McClintock, J. F . McConkey, Joseph . McCrea, William . McDonald, Allen . McDonald, John . McDonald, John J. . McDonald, John M. . McGowan, Edward V. . MoGavern, Thad . McHenry, Benjamin Moleary, George W. . McOllister. David . McPherson, Jesse . McCarty, John N. . McSwiggen, J. C. . McSwiggen, William H. . Newell, James . O'Brien, Simpson . Ohse, Henry . Ohse, William . Orr, John M. . Owens, James W. . Owens, Lewis L. . Painter, Daniel . Palmer, Elias . Panden, William M. . Parrish, Thomas D. . Patterson, David M. . Patterson, James P. . Patterson, James W. . Patterson, William W. . Pearse, John . Pees, George W. . Peterson, Joshua . Pittenger, Dallas . Pittenger, James . Pittenger, William . Plattenburg, John W. . Plunkett, Edward . Porter, James . Porter, John . Pugh, Alex G. . Pugh, Daniel . Pugh, John C. . Pugh, Robert W. . Pugh, William H. . Quear, Henry . ★Quear, Jacob . Rabbitt, George M. . Ralston, Harper M. . Ramsey, Robert . Ramsey, Wm. J. . Reed, David . Reed, George B. . Reed, John C. . Reed, Octavius . Reed, Thos, J. . Reid, John . Richards, J. Melvin . Richardson, Robert . Ridinger, John . Robinson, Elbert E. . Robinson, Thomas . Robb, W. B. . Robb, William J. . Root, William . Rose, Hamilton S. . Rose, John S. . Rose, Samuel F. . Rose, William H.,
Winchester.. Fickes, James T. . Finney, Alfred . Finley, James . Finley, Richard . Finley, William . Fitton, Robert . Flood, Francis . Flowers, John . Flowers, John W. . Foster, Callingwood . Fowler, J. Quincy . Freeman, Charles A. . Frontz, William . Gardner, Thomas . Garnall, Alexander . Geer, Charles A. . Dewees, Columbus . Dewees, Scott . Dody, Thomas . Doman, John . Donohoe, Daniel D. . Donohoe, William M. . Dornan, John M. . Durbin, Ephriam . Durbin, George W. . Durbin, Jehu W. . Durbin, John . Durbin, Wesley . ★Durbin, Joseph B. . Edie, George . Edie, John N. W. . Elliott, Ross B. . Eskin, John . Farmer, Thomas . Farnsworth, Henry . Farnsworth, R. H. . Farnsworth, Thomas . Farnsworth, William . Edie, Samuel . Geer, E.W. . Geer, Jacob . Geer, Peter . Gilbert, Charles . Gilbert, Lewis . Glass, Edward S. . Goddard, George W. . Goddard, W. E. . Goff, George . Grafton, James . Graham, Charles . Greer, John W. . Grey, Lucian B. . Hall, Chester . Hall, Willis C. . Halleck, Homer B. . Halstead, Samuel . Haney, William W. . Harper, Hanson . Harper, John L. . Harper, John V. S. . Hart, William M. . Harper, Anson, Haun, Joseph . Haun, George W. . Hawk, Henry . Hazeldine, Thomas . Heckathorne, Benjamin . Eckathorne, George . Heckathorne, Henry . Henderson, Franklin . Herbert, Peter . Henry, Theodore J. . Hewitt, Addison . Hewitt, J. A. . Hewitt, Joseph . Hewitt, R. B. . Harper, Wm. . Hewitt, William . Hibbets, James H. . Hill, Elijah . Hill, John . Hindman, Alexander . ★Hobbs, Wheeler . Hobbs, William H. . Hoffman, Aaron . Hopkins, Thomas . Householder, David . Howard, Harvey . Hughes, David A. . Hughes, James . ★Hukill, William M. . Hunter, George W. . Hunter, John G. . Hupp, Atkinson . Hutchinson, John . Icenhour, John S. . Erskine, John . Jenkins, John H. . Jackson, Andrew . Jackson, Robert . James, Daniel P. . James, Richard . Jenkins, Sylvester B. . Jewell, Samuel . Jewell, William . Johnson, John . Johnson, Mack . Johnson, Oliver . Johnson, Samuel R. . Jones, W. H. H. . Kaho. James . Kaho, Patrick . Kemp, George W. . Kemp, Jesse . Kemp, John . Kemp, Martin . Kerr, A.J. L. . Kerr, Daniel L. . Kerr, J. B. . King, John W. . Kirk, Benton . Kirk, Isaac . Laughlin, N. . Lloyd, Thomas . Lloyd, Joseph . Lloyd, Nehemiah . Lockhart, S. Alexander . Lockhart, Thomas J. . Long, John . Lowery, Calvin . Lowery, Daniel F . Lowery, William E. . ★Lyons, Joseph R. . Lyons, Shannon . Mackey, George B. . Mackey, George D. . Mahan, W. C. . Marshall, Robert . Mason, Warren . Maxwell, Henry J. . ★Murray, William A. . Murray, John . Maxwell, John B. . Melvin, Charles E. . Melvin, John Henry . Melvin, Oscar F. . Melvin, Thayer . Melvin, William H. . Mercer, John W. . ★Miller, Isaac H. . Miller, Monroe . Miller, Morgan H. . Miller, Stewart . Miller, Thomas . Miller, W. S. . Murray, William A.,
Piedmont.. Campbell, Moses . ★Campbell, W. B. . Cantlin, Peter . Carmicheal, Moses C. . Carpenter, Hezekiah . Carson, Martin L. . Carter, Henry B. . Castle, Henry C. . Chapman, B. W. . Chapman, Samuel . Chapman, William . Cheverount, James M. . Clark, William . Clem, Jasper . ★Cochran, David W. . Cochran, James A. . Brandon, Richard E. . Brannon, John . Brennemam. John N. . Brice, William R. . Brobeck, John S. . Brown, James . Brown, Richard H. . Brownell, George W. . Bryson, William . Beebout, Samuel K. . Buckanan, John . Buckelew. T. F. . Burns, James . Butler, Martin . Bye, Henry . Cable, Samuel . Calhoon, Smith . Caldwell, Cyrus . Caldwell, J. D. . Campbell, Alex . Campbell, James Y. . Campbell, Milton B. . Connelly, John W. . Cochran, William H. . Compton, John . Connell, John . Connelley, George . Conwell, John . Cook, Joseph . Coon, Joshua R. . Craft, Charles A. . Craig, Ira . Crawford, Lewis . Cullen, Isaac . Cullen, Isaac N. . Cullen, I. H. . Cullen, J. M. . Cullen, M. M. . Cullen, Samuel . Currens, James . Darragh, James H. . Daugherty, Andrew . Daugherty, Daniel . Debee, Sylvanus H. . Dennis, John . Grimes, Chas., Ross, Cornelius H. . Rush, James . Russell, David H. . ★Russell, John C. . Russell, William L. . Scott, J. R. . Scott, John A. . ★Scott, Joseph . Scott, W. A. . Shephard, John L. . Shetter, Egbert . Shotto, Phillip . Silcot, Matthew . Snowden, John . Simmons, Joseph . Simpkins, Daniel . Simpson, George S. . Smith, George . Smith, George W. . Smith, Isaiah . Snider, Burris . Snider, George . Snider, William . Snowden, David H. . ★Snowden, James R. . Snowden, Robert . Staats, George W. . Stackman, George W. . Stanley, Philotis . Starcher, Mark . Steele, James L. . Steele, J. M. . Stephens, Edward W. . Stewart, James . ★Stewart, Samuel B. . Stewart, W. W. . Stotler, George . Sullivan, John . Summerville, Samuel . Sutor, Robert . Swaney, John . Swaney, S. D. . Swaney, Thomas R. . Swearingen, Alex . Swearingen, B. L. . Swearingen, James . Swearingen, S. M. . ★Swearingen, W. W. . Terwillegal, Joseph . Thayer, Milton . Thayer, W. H. . Thomas, William H. . ★Thompson, William . Thorne, John M. . Troup, Samuel . Vance, A. H. . Varner, Oliver . Walker, Wilson . Walters, James . Washburn, Isaac . Wasson, Thomas . Watson, William J. . Webb, W. C. . Webber, John F. . Weedon, Henry H. . West, Henry . West, John M. . West, Thomas B. . Wetzel, Jacob . Wetzel, Lewis . ★White, George W. . ★White, James . White, John W. . Wilkinson, Silas . Wilson, Alexander . Wilson, James . Wilson, Joseph . Wilson, William . Winch, Jacob . Worral, Benjamin R. . Worral, Milton . Worral, Samuel . ★Wycoff, James . Wylie, D. M. . Wylie, D. N. . Wylie, William . Young, Intrepid M. . Yost, William . Zink, George W., Monumental Bronze Co., Bridgeport, CT.
W. A. Atkinson
Post No. 18 Dep't W. Va.
Grand Army of the Republic
1861 - Veteran - 1866 Appomattox.
Yet loved ones
have fallen
and still where
they sleep
a sorrowing nation shall
silently weep.
And spring's brightest flowers with gratitude
strew
o'er those who once
cherished
the red, white, and blue.
To the perpetual memory of the
defenders
of the Union, 1861-1865.
Erected by the
Citizens of Hancock Co., May 30th, 1886.
Cedar Creek.
Applegate, Benton Arbuthnot, John S. Armstrong, C. B. Aten, James ★Atkinson, Wm. A. Atwell, William ★Austin, Nathan C. Baggs, Robert Baker, Elijah Bailey, Jesse Bailey, John S. Bailey, Joseph Baldwin, Perry ★Barton, John W. Baum, John Baxter, John Abrams, James M. Adams, John Adams, Joseph O. Ainsworth, James C. Allison, Alex B. ★Allison, Daniel Allison, James Of Chas. Allison, John Allison, John G. Allison, John P. Allison, John W. Allison, James C. Allison, Peter P. Allison, Richard O. Allison, William Allison, William G. Allison, William H. ★Allison,
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W. W. Anderson, C. C. Anderson, Vicknell O. Apple. Andrew Apple, Theodore L. Apple, Geo. W. Baxter, John R. Baxter, William H. Beal, Samuel ★Beal, William Bennett, Mansfield L. Bernard, John Bernard, Thomas B. Bernard, Van B. Bird, George H. H. Bird, Francis Bliss, Isaac N. Bonsall, Albert E. Bonsall, John A. Bonsall, William G. Boon, Nathan Boom, Hamilton Boyce, Robert Boyd, James H. Bradley, James ★Bradley, Thomas W. Brandon, George W. ★Brandon, Martin V. Baker, Thos.
Milby, Robt. Miller, William M. ★Miner, Samuel H. Moore, Abraham Moore, Ezekiel J. Moore, Clinton Moore, Samuel M. Moore, Thomas M. Moore, W. H. Moorehead, George W. Morrow, James E. Morrow, John C. Morrow, Robt. Morrow, W. W. Murray, John C. Moore, Sml. Marks Mumford, Jacob Mushrush, John Myers, T. Finley ★McCarty, James A. McCarty, John M. McCay, James H. McClintock, J. F McConkey, Joseph McCrea, William McDonald, Allen McDonald, John McDonald, John J. McDonald, John M. McGowan, Edward V. MoGavern, Thad McHenry, Benjamin
Photographed by Craig Doda, March 29, 2025
2. Hancock County Civil War Memorial
Moleary, George W. McOllister. David McPherson, Jesse McCarty, John N. McSwiggen, J. C. McSwiggen, William H. Newell, James O'Brien, Simpson Ohse, Henry Ohse, William Orr, John M. Owens, James W. Owens, Lewis L. Painter, Daniel Palmer, Elias Panden, William M. Parrish, Thomas D. Patterson, David M. Patterson, James P. Patterson, James W. Patterson, William W. Pearse, John Pees, George W. Peterson, Joshua Pittenger, Dallas Pittenger, James Pittenger, William Plattenburg, John W. Plunkett, Edward Porter, James Porter, John Pugh, Alex G. Pugh, Daniel Pugh, John C. Pugh, Robert W. Pugh, William H. Quear, Henry ★Quear, Jacob Rabbitt, George M. Ralston, Harper M. Ramsey, Robert Ramsey, Wm. J. Reed, David Reed, George B. Reed, John C. Reed, Octavius Reed, Thos, J. Reid, John Richards, J. Melvin Richardson, Robert Ridinger, John Robinson, Elbert E. Robinson, Thomas Robb, W. B. Robb, William J. Root, William Rose, Hamilton S. Rose, John S. Rose, Samuel F. Rose, William H.
Winchester.
Fickes, James T. Finney, Alfred
Photographed by Craig Doda, March 29, 2025
3. Hancock County Civil War Memorial
Finley, James Finley, Richard Finley, William Fitton, Robert Flood, Francis Flowers, John Flowers, John W. Foster, Callingwood Fowler, J. Quincy Freeman, Charles A. Frontz, William Gardner, Thomas Garnall, Alexander Geer, Charles A. Dewees, Columbus Dewees, Scott Dody, Thomas Doman, John Donohoe, Daniel D. Donohoe, William M. Dornan, John M. Durbin, Ephriam Durbin, George W. Durbin, Jehu W. Durbin, John Durbin, Wesley ★Durbin, Joseph B. Edie, George Edie, John N. W. Elliott, Ross B. Eskin, John Farmer, Thomas Farnsworth, Henry Farnsworth, R. H. Farnsworth, Thomas Farnsworth, William Edie, Samuel Geer, E.W. Geer, Jacob Geer, Peter Gilbert, Charles Gilbert, Lewis Glass, Edward S. Goddard, George W. Goddard, W. E. Goff, George Grafton, James Graham, Charles Greer, John W. Grey, Lucian B. Hall, Chester Hall, Willis C. Halleck, Homer B. Halstead, Samuel Haney, William W. Harper, Hanson Harper, John L. Harper, John V. S. Hart, William M. Harper, Anson
Haun, Joseph Haun, George W. Hawk, Henry Hazeldine, Thomas
Photographed by Craig Doda, March 29, 2025
4. Hancock County Civil War Memorial
Heckathorne, Benjamin Eckathorne, George Heckathorne, Henry Henderson, Franklin Herbert, Peter Henry, Theodore J. Hewitt, Addison Hewitt, J. A. Hewitt, Joseph Hewitt, R. B. Harper, Wm. Hewitt, William Hibbets, James H. Hill, Elijah Hill, John Hindman, Alexander ★Hobbs, Wheeler Hobbs, William H. Hoffman, Aaron Hopkins, Thomas Householder, David Howard, Harvey Hughes, David A. Hughes, James ★Hukill, William M. Hunter, George W. Hunter, John G. Hupp, Atkinson Hutchinson, John Icenhour, John S. Erskine, John Jenkins, John H. Jackson, Andrew Jackson, Robert James, Daniel P. James, Richard Jenkins, Sylvester B. Jewell, Samuel Jewell, William Johnson, John Johnson, Mack Johnson, Oliver Johnson, Samuel R. Jones, W. H. H. Kaho. James Kaho, Patrick Kemp, George W. Kemp, Jesse Kemp, John Kemp, Martin Kerr, A.J. L. Kerr, Daniel L. Kerr, J. B. King, John W. Kirk, Benton Kirk, Isaac Laughlin, N. Lloyd, Thomas Lloyd, Joseph Lloyd, Nehemiah Lockhart, S. Alexander Lockhart, Thomas J. Long, John Lowery, Calvin
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5. Hancock County Courthouse
Lowery, Daniel F Lowery, William E. ★Lyons, Joseph R. Lyons, Shannon Mackey, George B. Mackey, George D. Mahan, W. C. Marshall, Robert Mason, Warren Maxwell, Henry J. ★Murray, William A. Murray, John Maxwell, John B. Melvin, Charles E. Melvin, John Henry Melvin, Oscar F. Melvin, Thayer Melvin, William H. Mercer, John W. ★Miller, Isaac H. Miller, Monroe Miller, Morgan H. Miller, Stewart Miller, Thomas Miller, W. S. Murray, William A.
Piedmont.
Campbell, Moses ★Campbell, W. B. Cantlin, Peter Carmicheal, Moses C. Carpenter, Hezekiah Carson, Martin L. Carter, Henry B. Castle, Henry C. Chapman, B. W. Chapman, Samuel Chapman, William Cheverount, James M. Clark, William Clem, Jasper ★Cochran, David W. Cochran, James A. Brandon, Richard E. Brannon, John Brennemam. John N. Brice, William R. Brobeck, John S. Brown, James Brown, Richard H. Brownell, George W. Bryson, William Beebout, Samuel K. Buckanan, John Buckelew. T. F. Burns, James Butler, Martin Bye, Henry Cable, Samuel Calhoon, Smith Caldwell, Cyrus Caldwell, J. D. Campbell, Alex Campbell, James Y. Campbell, Milton B. Connelly, John W. Cochran, William H. Compton, John Connell, John Connelley, George Conwell, John Cook, Joseph Coon, Joshua R. Craft, Charles A. Craig, Ira Crawford, Lewis Cullen, Isaac Cullen, Isaac N. Cullen, I. H. Cullen, J. M. Cullen, M. M. Cullen, Samuel Currens, James Darragh, James H. Daugherty, Andrew Daugherty, Daniel Debee, Sylvanus H. Dennis, John Grimes, Chas.
Ross, Cornelius H. Rush, James Russell, David H. ★Russell, John C. Russell, William L. Scott, J. R. Scott, John A. ★Scott, Joseph Scott, W. A. Shephard, John L. Shetter, Egbert Shotto, Phillip Silcot, Matthew Snowden, John Simmons, Joseph Simpkins, Daniel Simpson, George S. Smith, George Smith, George W. Smith, Isaiah Snider, Burris Snider, George Snider, William Snowden, David H. ★Snowden, James R. Snowden, Robert Staats, George W. Stackman, George W. Stanley, Philotis Starcher, Mark Steele, James L. Steele, J. M. Stephens, Edward W. Stewart, James ★Stewart, Samuel B. Stewart, W. W. Stotler, George Sullivan, John Summerville, Samuel Sutor, Robert Swaney, John Swaney, S. D. Swaney, Thomas R. Swearingen, Alex Swearingen, B. L. Swearingen, James Swearingen, S. M. ★Swearingen, W. W. Terwillegal, Joseph Thayer, Milton Thayer, W. H. Thomas, William H. ★Thompson, William Thorne, John M. Troup, Samuel Vance, A. H. Varner, Oliver Walker, Wilson Walters, James Washburn, Isaac Wasson, Thomas Watson, William J. Webb, W. C. Webber, John F. Weedon, Henry H. West, Henry West, John M. West, Thomas B. Wetzel, Jacob Wetzel, Lewis ★White, George W. ★White, James White, John W. Wilkinson, Silas Wilson, Alexander Wilson, James Wilson, Joseph Wilson, William Winch, Jacob Worral, Benjamin R. Worral, Milton Worral, Samuel ★Wycoff, James Wylie, D. M. Wylie, D. N. Wylie, William Young, Intrepid M. Yost, William Zink, George W.
Monumental Bronze Co., Bridgeport, CT.
Erected 1886 by W. A. Atkinson Post No. 18 Dep't W. Va., Grand Army of the Republic.
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, US Civil.
Location. 40° 29.951′ N, 80° 36.515′ W. Memorial is in New Cumberland, West Virginia, in Hancock County. It is at the intersection of North Court Street and Madison Street (West Virginia Route 2), on the right when traveling north on North Court Street. Located on the grounds of the Hancock County Court House. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 102 N Court St, New Cumberland WV 26047, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this memorial is in the Northern Panhandle. It is also in the American South, specifically in the Upper South, in the Ohio River Valley, and in Appalachia. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture.
Credits. This page was last revised on April 5, 2025. It was originally submitted on April 3, 2025, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. This page has been viewed 251 times since then and 32 times this year. Photos:1, 2, 3, 4, 5. submitted on April 3, 2025, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. • Bernard Fisher was the editor who published this page.
