Upshur Brothers Blue and Gray - West Virginia in the Civil War

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Upshur Brothers
of the Blue and the Gray
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Written by Betty Hornbeck
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McClain Printing Co. - 1995 (revised from the 1967 original)
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Softcover : Very Good or Better
Prior owner emboss stamp and ink stamp.
Prior owner was A.M. Gambone, a noted Civil War Historian
and Author - wrote books on Gettysburg and Robert E. Lee.
259 pages, with portraits, indexed.
Almost 100 pages of this book are rosters of :
Co. B, 25th Virginia "Upshur Grays"
Co. E, 6th WV Cavalry
10th WV Vol. Infantry
Very, very useful roster information !!!
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A localized history of the Civil War based on personal letters, diaries & selections from newspaper accounts.
These selections & listings of soldiers include names from over 20 central & northern West Virginia counties.
Accounts of personal tension, sacrifice, suffering & bitterness are portrayed as brother met brother
on the battlefront & neighbor met neighbor at home.
"Above-average monographs on life in wartime Upshur County, W. Va.;
three rosters are included; the short chapters originally appeared as newspaper articles" Nevins Civil War Books
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Upshur County was created on March 26, 1851, from parts of Randolph, Lewis, and Barbour counties, with Buckhannon as the county seat. Located in the north-central part of West Virginia, Upshur County is crossed by four-lane Corridor H (U.S. 33) and is within a few miles of Interstate 79. Mining, oil and gas, timbering, farming, and small industry are the major industries. Upshur, with six magisterial districts and 354.7 square miles, is served by one high school, one middle school, and nine elementary schools. Its population was an estimated 24,477 in 2012. The county rises from rolling foothills to mountains of more than 3,000 feet in the rugged southeastern section. The Buckhannon River is the major waterway, flowing north nearly the entire length of the county.
Throughout the Civil War, Upshur County was firmly Unionist. The only real battle in the county took place August 30, 1862, near Water Tank Hill, during the Jenkins Raid of Confederate Cavalry. Nearly three dozen Union soldiers were killed, wounded, or taken captive. That night, bonfires lighted Main Street as Confederate soldiers looted and pillaged Buckhannon. The greatest calamity to befall the county during the war was the capture of the Upshur Militia on September 12, 1863, at Centerville (now Rock Cave). Of the 70 captives, 43 died in Southern prisons, including some at dreaded Andersonville, Georgia. They left behind 27 widows and 83 children.
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