The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia ...

The Clarksburg History Museum took people back to the most tumultuous time in United States history during its Civil War ...

CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — Parts of Virginia may be more west than the ... reflecting its proximity to the Civil War era Fort ...

Strategically, the Eastern Theater was arguably the most important battleground of the Civil War; comprising the states of Virginia, West Virginia Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the District of ...

Admitted to the Union in 1863, West Virginia was the only state created from breaking apart from a Confederate state during the Civil War and played a key role as a border state. Head of West ...

Perhaps the most well-known destination in West Virginia, Harpers Ferry is more than a quaint 19th-century town. It's a National Historic Park with Civil War sites including battlefields ...

Famous for leading the ill-fated "Pickett's Charge" at Gettysburg, George Pickett was a West Point ... killed by the war's end. George Edward Pickett was raised in Richmond, Virginia, the eldest ...