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Albert Sidney Johnston Morgan, Appalachia, Battle of Charleston, Battle of Scary Creek, civil war, history, Jacob D. Cox, John Morgan, Kanawha County, Morgan Kitchen Museum, St. Albans, Terry Lowry, Union Army, West Virginia
Terry Lowry is THE authority on the Civil War in the Kanawha Valley. Stop 8 on his tour: Morgan Kitchen Museum in Saint Albans, WV. 29 September 2019. Here is a link to Terry’s latest book, The Battle of Charleston (2016): https://wvcivilwar.com/now-available-the-battle-of-charleston/
Morgan kitchen was built in 1846 near the present-day location of John Amos Power Plant. During the war, the kitchen was used to serve meals to Union soldiers wounded at the Battle of Scary Creek. It was moved to this site in 1972.
For more information about the kitchen, go here: http://www.stalbanshistory.com/morgans-kitchen.html
Brandon Ray Kirk 