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West Virginia Civil War Trails Historical Markers

 
By Craig Swain, July 24, 2010
Battle of Laurel Hill Marker
1 ► West Virginia, Barbour County, Belington — Battle of Laurel Hill — Tempest on the Turnpike —
2 ► West Virginia, Barbour County, Philippi — "Ruinous Effect of War" — The Civilian Population Suffers —
3 ► West Virginia, Barbour County, Philippi — Battle of Philippi — Talbott's Hill — The First Campaign —
4 ► West Virginia, Barbour County, Philippi — Battle of Philippi — The Covered Bridge — The First Campaign — Reported permanently removed
5 ► West Virginia, Barbour County, Philippi — Confederate Escape — Union Troops Enter the Town —
6 ► West Virginia, Barbour County, Philippi — First Battle of a Long War — The Fight at Philippi —
7 ► West Virginia, Barbour County, Philippi — Medical Firsts — Amputation Leads to Prosthetics —
8 ► West Virginia, Barbour County, Philippi — Philippi — The Federal Attack — The First Campaign — Reported permanently removed
9 ► West Virginia, Barbour County, Philippi — Philippi — The Confederate Retreat — The First Campaign — Reported missing
10 ► West Virginia, Barbour County, Philippi — Philippi — The Commands — The First Campaign — Reported permanently removed
11 ► West Virginia, Barbour County, Philippi — The "Philippi Races" — Confederates Flee —
12 ► West Virginia, Berkeley County, Bunker Hill — Gettysburg Campaign — Invasion & Retreat — Reported permanently removed
13 ► West Virginia, Berkeley County, Falling Waters — Battle of Falling Waters — Harper’s 5th Virginia Infantry —
14 ► West Virginia, Berkeley County, Falling Waters — Battle of Falling Waters — Crockett-Porterfield House — Reported permanently removed
15 ► West Virginia, Berkeley County, Falling Waters — Battle of Falling Waters — Jackson’s Coolness Under Fire — Reported permanently removed
16 ► West Virginia, Berkeley County, Falling Waters — Battle of Falling Waters — Stuart’s Surprise — Reported permanently removed
17 ► West Virginia, Berkeley County, Falling Waters — Battle of Falling Waters — Four Apostles of the 1st Rockbridge Artillery —
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18 ► West Virginia, Berkeley County, Falling Waters — Battles of Falling Waters — “A splendid falls” —
19 ► West Virginia, Berkeley County, Falling Waters — The Battle of Falling Waters — Stuart's Surprise —
20 ► West Virginia, Berkeley County, Marlowe — 1862 Antietam Campaign — Lee Invades Maryland — Reported permanently removed
21 ► West Virginia, Berkeley County, Martinsburg — Belle Boyd House — Home of a Spy — Antietam Campaign — Reported permanently removed
22 ► West Virginia, Berkeley County, Martinsburg — Belle Boyd House — Home of a Spy — Antietam Campaign —
23 ► West Virginia, Berkeley County, Martinsburg — Berkeley Hotel — Railroad Raids Survivor — Reported permanently removed
24 ► West Virginia, Berkeley County, Martinsburg — Berkeley Hotel — Railroad Raids Survivor —
25 ► West Virginia, Berkeley County, Martinsburg — Civil War Martinsburg — Focus of Contention —
26 ► West Virginia, Berkeley County, Martinsburg — Martinsburg Roundhouse — Jackson and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad — Antietam Campaign — Reported permanently removed
27 ► West Virginia, Berkeley County, Martinsburg — Martinsburg Roundhouse — Jackson and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad — Antietam Campaign —
28 ► West Virginia, Berkeley County, North Mountain — Camp Hopkins — Memorial to a Friend —
29 ► West Virginia, Berkeley County, Spring Mills — Hammond House — Headquarters and Hospital — Reported permanently removed
30 ► West Virginia, Berkeley County, Spring Mills — Hammond House — Used by Both Sides —
31 ► West Virginia, Braxton County, Napier — Battle of Bulltown — "Come and take us" —
32 ► West Virginia, Braxton County, Sutton — Fighting and Flames — Suttonville Burns —
33 ► West Virginia, Braxton County, Sutton — Suttonville — Confederates Ride Through Town — Jones-Imboden Raid —
34 ► West Virginia, Braxton County, Sutton — The Burning of Suttonville — Partisan Attack — Reported permanently removed
35 ► West Virginia, Braxton County, Sutton — The War and Suttonville — Changing Occupations — Jones-Imboden Raid — Reported permanently removed
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36 ► West Virginia, Cabell County, Barboursville — Barboursville Engagement — Fighting for the Kanawha Valley —
37 ► West Virginia, Cabell County, Huntington — Battle of Guyandotte — "Massacre of the 9th Infantry" —
38 ► West Virginia, Cabell County, Huntington — Battle of Guyandotte — Federal Retaliation —
39 ► West Virginia, Cabell County, Huntington — Madie Carroll House — Saved from Destruction —
40 ► West Virginia, Calhoun County, Arnoldsburg — Engagement at Arnoldsburg — Divided Loyalties —
41 ► West Virginia, Fayette County, Ansted — Contentment — Home of George W. Imboden —
42 ► West Virginia, Fayette County, Ansted — Tyree Tavern — Confederate and Union Headquarters —
43 ► West Virginia, Fayette County, Ansted — Westlake Cemetery — Burial Place of Julia Jackson —
44 ► West Virginia, Fayette County, Fayetteville — Battle of Fayetteville — Defense and Retreat — Reported permanently removed
45 ► West Virginia, Fayette County, Fayetteville — Battle of Fayetteville — Defense and Retreat — West Virginia Civil War Trails —
46 ► West Virginia, Fayette County, Fayetteville — Faith During War — A Jewish Seder in the Wilds —
47 ► West Virginia, Fayette County, Gauley Bridge — Battles For The Bridges — Gauley Bridge - A Town in Between — Reported missing
48 ► West Virginia, Fayette County, Gauley Bridge — Gauley Bridge — Gateway to the Kanawha Valley — West Virginia Civil War Trails —
49 ► West Virginia, Gilmer County, Glenville — Attack on Glenville — "…the birds had flown" — Jenkins's Raid —
50 ► West Virginia, Grant County, Keyser, Scherr — Greenland Gap Engagement — "Fight to the last crust or cartridge" — Jones - Imboden Raid — Reported permanently removed
51 ► West Virginia, Grant County, Keyser, Scherr — Greenland Gap Engagement — "Fight to the last crust or cartridge" — Jones-Imboden Raid —
52 ► West Virginia, Grant County, Maysville, Lahmansville — Jarboe's Blockhouse — Guarding Patterson Creek Valley —
53 ► West Virginia, Grant County, Petersburg — Fort Mulligan — Protecting Looney's Creek (Petersburg) —
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54 ► West Virginia, Grant County, Petersburg — Fort Mulligan — Protecting Looney's Creek (Petersburg) — Reported permanently removed
55 ► West Virginia, Grant County, Petersburg — Maple Hill Cemetery — Brief Peace in the Midst of War —
56 ► West Virginia, Grant County, Petersburg — War in Grant County — Engagement at Johnson Run —
57 ► West Virginia, Greenbrier County, Caldwell — Confederate Saltpeter Works — Civil War Industrial Center —
58 ► West Virginia, Greenbrier County, Lewisburg — Battle of Lewisburg — A Brief Fight —
59 ► West Virginia, Hampshire County, Bloomery — Fight at Bloomery Gap — A Futile Affair —
60 ► West Virginia, Hampshire County, Blues Beach — Camp Washington — Strategic Position — Reported missing
61 ► West Virginia, Hampshire County, Gore — The Guns Of Jacob Sheetz — Hunting of a Different Sort —
62 ► West Virginia, Hampshire County, Romney — Captain George W. Stump — "Stump's Battery" —
63 ► West Virginia, Hampshire County, Romney — Charles Bell — "My journey to freedom" —
64 ► West Virginia, Hampshire County, Romney — Engagement at Romney — Lew Wallace Storms the Bridge —
65 ► West Virginia, Hampshire County, Romney — Hampshire County Courthouse — Secession and Occupation —
66 ► West Virginia, Hampshire County, Romney — Jackson's Headquarters — John B. White House — Jackson's Bath-Romney Campaign —
67 ► West Virginia, Hampshire County, Romney — Romney In The Civil War — Strategic Location on the Turnpike — Reported missing
68 ► West Virginia, Hampshire County, Springfield — Wire Bridge Engagement — Federal Attack on Romney —
69 ► West Virginia, Hampshire County, Springfield, Blue Beach — Wire Bridge Engagement — Federal Attack on Romney — Reported permanently removed
70 ► West Virginia, Hardy County, Baker — Frιmont's Camp — En Route to the Shenandoah Valley —
71 ► West Virginia, Hardy County, Lost City — Woodlawn — Home of James W. Wood —
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72 ► West Virginia, Hardy County, Mathias — Mathias Homestead — Son in the Service — West Virginia Civil War Trails —
73 ► West Virginia, Hardy County, Moorefield — Battle of Moorefield — Running for the Hills —
74 ► West Virginia, Hardy County, Moorefield — Cemetery Hill — Fighting Among the Tombstones —
75 ► West Virginia, Hardy County, Moorefield — Cemetery Hill — Fighting Among the Tombstones — Reported permanently removed
76 ► West Virginia, Hardy County, Moorefield — McMechen House — Confederate Headquarters — Reported permanently removed
77 ► West Virginia, Hardy County, Moorefield — McMechen House — "… we are Virginians still" —
78 ► West Virginia, Hardy County, Moorefield — Mill Island — Confederate Hospital — Reported missing
79 ► West Virginia, Hardy County, Moorefield — Moorefield Presbyterian Church — Confederate Sanctuary —
80 ► West Virginia, Hardy County, Old Fields — Battle of Moorefield — Where the Fighting Started — Reported permanently removed
81 ► West Virginia, Hardy County, Old Fields — Battle of Moorefield — Where the Fighting Started —
82 ► West Virginia, Hardy County, Wardensville — Wardensville — Crossroads of War — Reported permanently removed
83 ► West Virginia, Hardy County, Wardensville — Wardensville — Crossroads of War —
84 ► West Virginia, Harrison County, Bridgeport — Bridgeport — A Target of the Raid — Jones-Imboden Raid —
85 ► West Virginia, Harrison County, Clarksburg — Clarksburg Defenses — Protecting the Town and Railroad — Jones-Imboden Raid —
86 ► West Virginia, Harrison County, Clarksburg — Northwest Academy — Soldiers' Home — Reported permanently removed
87 ► West Virginia, Harrison County, Clarksburg — Northwest Academy — A Temporary Home —
88 ► West Virginia, Harrison County, Clarksburg — Stonewall Jackson Birthplace — Origins of a Confederate Hero —
89 ► West Virginia, Harrison County, Clarksburg — Union Meetings — "We intend… to… remain in the Union" —
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90 ► West Virginia, Jackson County, Ravenswood — Ravenswood — Springboard for Invasion — Jenkin's Raid —
91 ► West Virginia, Jackson County, Ripley — Partisan Raid — Ripley Post Office —
92 ► West Virginia, Jackson County, Ripley — Ripley — McGrew / Hood Grist Mill — The Blue and Gray Trail — Reported permanently removed
93 ► West Virginia, Jackson County, Ripley — Ripley — Jackson County Courthouse — The Blue and Gray Trail — Reported permanently removed
94 ► West Virginia, Jackson County, Ripley — The Casto Hole — Serving Opposite Sides —
95 ► West Virginia, Jefferson County, Bolivar — Allstadt House — John Brown's Hostages — Prelude to War —
96 ► West Virginia, Jefferson County, Bolivar — Harpers Ferry — Prize of War —
97 ► West Virginia, Jefferson County, Bolivar — Jackson at Harpers Ferry — The Stonewall Brigade — Reported permanently removed
98 ► West Virginia, Jefferson County, Bolivar — On the Border — War's Hard Hand Came Often —
99 ► West Virginia, Jefferson County, Charles Town — Cameron's Depot Engagement — "What news now?" — 1864 Valley Campaign — Reported missing
100 ► West Virginia, Jefferson County, Charles Town — Edge Hill Cemetery — John Brown Raid Victims —

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