Paperback Edition 224 pages; Published by Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., Charleston WV. Taken from back cover; War in Western Virginia. In mountain warfare the learning of the books and strategists is of little use. In a country where it is impossible to find enough level land to muster a company of militia, there is very little scope for ingeniously studied military evolutions are consummately arranged plans of campaign on paper. It is impossible for the books to embrace the thousand topographical features of a wild region, where all nature seems drunk in the heels and mountains and high frolic. The only rule of warfare in such a region is to throw away all rule. The policy there is to fight and March, to march and fight. Ingenious ink and paper plans of campaign are about as useless in the region about the Big Sewell Mountain as a McCormick's reaper in a mountain wheat "field."

The Civil War in Fayette County, West Virginia

History

McKinney, Tim

Americas

Pictorial Histories Publishing Co.

Robert E. Lee's strategy and campaign during the War Between the States in the area of Sewell Mountain, West Virginia. Illustrated with photographs and maps.

Robert E. Lee at Sewell Mountain: The West Virginia Campaign

Robert E. Lee and the 35th Star

Tim McKinney's Civil War Almanac, an outgrowth of his research into the nation's most tragic war, will place historians, genealogists, Civil War enthusiasts, and other informed readers still more deeply in debt to him. Major sources for identifying Civil War veterans, and making up a large part of the book, are the 1890 Civil War Veteran Census and the 1890 Confederate Index. Good detail for genealogy and history research.

West Virginia Civil War Almanac

West Virginia Book Co

The much anticipated second volume in the series. A  wealth of information including: a roster of over 31,000 U.S. soldiers  from WV; an index of 12,683 U.S. veterans of the 1890 WV Census; the  deceased vets and their widows from the 1890 Census plus index; an  index to the African American troops; a statistical review of the 1890  census; plus an addenda to Volume I with additions &  corrections. Civil War buffs, genealogists, and family historians will  find this book very useful.

West Virginia Civil War Almanac Volume 2

Reference

Quarrier Press]

The definitive book on the Civil War theatre in Fayette County. Lifelong resident of Fayette County, Tim McKinney is well known all over the region for his meticulous research and well written books on the Civil War. Generous amounts of photographs, maps, sketches, and letters, along with the nature of the fighting over extremely rough terrain, make this history enjoyable for war buffs as well as the casual reader.

Civil War in Fayette County West Virginia

This is the story of a place, and a war. It makes sense that this area would be of utmost significance in the Civil War, as it sits on the spot where Virginia was ripped apart to form two states. A place where the war “came early and stayed late.”\nAlthough strong Union support characterized Greenbrier County before the war, the majority of its citizens sided with the South when forced to choose. Greenbrier County sent no delegates to the conventions that gave birth to the Reorganized Government of Virginia. It cast no votes for Abraham Lincoln.\nWhen war came, the county supported the Confederate military with money, arms and men. An estimated 2,000 men and boys from Greenbrier County wore Confederate gray. This number represented approximately 80% of the county’s males of “military\nwas strategically important to both sides. It was a gateway to northwestern Virginia, Ohio and the rich Shenandoah Valley. It was a base from which either side could attack, or defend, the vital railroads of southwestern Virginia and the prized salt mines of the Great Kanawha Valley.\nIn the years after the war Greenbrier County played a prominent role in shaping the new nation. At a meeting in at the Greenbrier in 1868, General Lee and other prominent veterans from both sides signed the Greenbrier Manifesto, a document calling for reconciliation between the North and South. In this way, Greenbrier County--crossroads of a nation divided--became a conduit for lasting peace.\nTim McKinney's detailed account of the battle of Lewisburg has eliminated many assumptions and implications of previous historians. His is the best and most complete history of the Civil War in Greenbrier County. Jack Dickinson, bibliographer of the Rosanna Blake Confederate Collection at Morrow Library, Marshall University, Huntington, WV.\nOne of McKinney's favorite parts of the book explains how the now-famous resort, The Greenbrier, played a role in the war. The Sisters of Charity took care of countless wounded and sick soldiers there. McKinney discovered that one nun, Sister De Sales, worked in a ward set up in the resort's great ballroom.\nA dance program was still posted at its entrance, he writes: "It must have been an odd sight to have the fancy ballroom, elaborate hotel, and luxurious cottages in use as hospital wards. Where once laughter and joviality reigned supreme, were found the moans and pleading entreaties of men in various stages of life-threatening disease. The scarcity of food and basic needs was in contrast to prewar days of opulence and abundance."\nThe resort's beautiful grounds, enlivened with paths bearing such names as Courtship Maze and Lovers Rest, were now dotted with small earthen mounds indicating where yet another mother's son was laid to rest. "Thus at White Sulphur Springs was found incongruity, tragedy and despair. That bleak first winter of the war at The Old White left indelible images upon the minds of all who witnessed it. Its echo still reverberates across the years. The seldom-visited graves of those poor soldiers who perished at the resort-turned-hospital can yet be found by the modern visitor."\nMcKinney said most people are familiar with the blood spilled on the battlefields, but fewer people know about "the pain and sacrifice on the home front." Thanks to his research, he was able to find previously unpublished information about the role of the Sisters of Charity in White Sulphur Springs during the war.\nHe also walks readers through places in Greenbrier County that still exist. Anyone interested in local Civil War history could use his book as a guide.

Civil War In Greenbrier County, West Virginia

A dream come true for researcher and genealogist alike. Tim McKinney has enriched West Virginia Civil War history with his books on the The Civil War In Fayette County, Robert E. Lee at Sewell Mountain: The West Virginia Campaign, and Robert E. Lee and the 35th Star, all within the brief span of tem years. Now, his Civil War Almanac, an outgrowth of his researches into the nation's most tragic war, will place historians, genealogists, Civil War enthusiasts, and other informed readers still more deeply in debt to him. In this, the first of two volumes, McKinney sets high expectations for the usefulness his work and raises keen anticipation for the second volume. Major sources for identifying Civil War veterans from West Virginia include the 1890 Civil War Veteran Census, which includes nearly 14,000 veterans, who had worn either the Blue or the Gray, and were still living in West Virginia in 1890, along with their names, regiments, and periods of service. For many of the veterans there are also special remarks. The 1890 Confederate Index provides names and counties of residence of 1,097 Confederate veterans turned up by extensive research by the author; listings of both Union and Confederate veterans by county of residence; Civil War service medals Of Union veterans identified in the 1890 Census, many of which remain unclaimed at the West Virginia Division of Archives and History; a compilation of West Virginia Confederate soldiers and citizens who died in Federal prisons or military hospitals; an index to records of the Southern Claims Commission, which identifies more than 200 West Virginians who sought compensation from the United States for confiscated or stolen property, and transcribes as examples case files from Greenbrier and Jefferson Counties; and identification, with name, county, and regiment of ore than 160 physicians of the Blue and Gray who were from West Virginia. McKinney's compilations are of interest in their aggregate, but they provide detail that makes the soldier a person rather than a mere number. by Otis K. Rice, Professor Emeritus of History, West Virginia University Institute of Technology

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