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Civil War in the Kanawha Valley: Morgan Kitchen Museum (2019)

22 Wednesday Jan 2020

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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/

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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.

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For more information about the kitchen, go here: http://www.stalbanshistory.com/morgans-kitchen.html

Civil War in the Kanawha Valley: Littlepage Mansion (2019)

20 Monday Jan 2020

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Terry Lowry is THE authority on the Civil War in the Kanawha Valley. Stop 7 on his tour: Littlepage Mansion in Charleston, 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/

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Built in 1845, the Littlepage mansion is one of only six antebellum houses remaining in Charleston, WV. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 29 September 2019

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Rebecca Littlepage reportedly refused to allow Confederate General Henry A. Wise to occupy her home as a headquarters. According to the historical marker: “When the famously short-tempered Wise threatened to blow up the house, she stood staunchly on the front porch, surrounded by her six children. Nobody was willing to fire artillery at a woman and her children, and the house was spared.” For more history about the Littlepage mansion, go here: https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/exhibits/23?section=7

Civil War in the Kanawha Valley: Glenwood Estate (2019)

12 Sunday Jan 2020

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Terry Lowry is THE authority on the Civil War in the Kanawha Valley. Stop 6 on his tour: Glenwood Estate in Charleston, 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/

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For more information about Glenwood, go here: https://www.marshall.edu/graduatehumanities/the-glenwood-project/

Civil War in the Kanawha Valley: Magic Island Park (2019)

16 Saturday Nov 2019

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Terry Lowry is THE authority on the Civil War in the Kanawha Valley. Stop 5 on his tour: Magic Island Park in Charleston, 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/

Civil War in the Kanawha Valley: Spring Hill Cemetery (2019)

09 Saturday Nov 2019

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Terry Lowry is THE authority on the Civil War in the Kanawha Valley. Stop 4 on his tour: Spring Hill Cemetery in Charleston, 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/

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Confederate Cemetery at Spring Hill Cemetery in Charleston, WV. 29 September 2019. For more information about the cemetery, go here: https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/539

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Confederate Cemetery at Spring Hill Cemetery in Charleston, WV. 29 September 2019. For more information about the cemetery, go here: https://wvtourism.com/company/spring-hill-cemetery/

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Confederate Cemetery at Spring Hill Cemetery in Charleston, WV. 29 September 2019

Civil War in the Kanawha Valley: MacFarland-Hubbard House (2019)

31 Thursday Oct 2019

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Terry Lowry is THE authority on the Civil War in the Kanawha Valley. Stop 3 on his tour: MacFarland-Hubbard House in Charleston, 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/

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MacFarland-Hubbard House in Charleston, WV. 29 September 2019. For house history, go here: https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/exhibits/23?section=6

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MacFarland-Hubbard House in Charleston, WV. 29 September 2019. During the Battle of Charleston (1862), a cannonball struck in the house. It also served as a hospital. For history about house restoration, go here: http://wvhumanities.org/about/our-historic-house/macfarland-hubbard-house-restoration/

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MacFarland-Hubbard House in Charleston, WV. 29 September 2019. 

Civil War in the Kanawha Valley: Ruffner Memorial Park (2019)

29 Tuesday Oct 2019

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Terry Lowry is THE authority on the Civil War in the Kanawha Valley. Stop 2 on his tour: Ruffner Memorial Park in Charleston, 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/

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Kanawha Riflemen: “Hometown Boys in Gray.” 29 September 2019

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Kanawha Riflemen Memorial at Ruffner Memorial Park. In 1831, Joseph Ruffner deeded this cemetery to the city. In 1920, the site became a city park. Some graves were relocated but many are still here with their headstones buried beneath the surface. The UDC memorial was placed in 1922. 29 September 2019

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Thomas Bullitt grave. Ruffner Memorial Park. In 1776, George Washington wrote of him: “Bullet (sic) is no favourite of mine, & therefore I shall say nothing more of him, than that his own opinion of himself always kept pace with what others pleas’d to think of him—if any thing, rather run a head of it.” 29 September 2019

Civil War in the Kanawha Valley: Ruffner Log Cabin and Craik-Patton House (2019)

29 Tuesday Oct 2019

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Terry Lowry is THE authority on the Civil War in the Kanawha Valley. He began his tour at the Ruffner Log Cabin and the Craik-Patton House. 29 September 2019. Here is a link to his latest book, The Battle of Charleston (2016): https://wvcivilwar.com/now-available-the-battle-of-charleston/

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Ruffner Log Cabin. Constructed about 1800 at 1536 Kanawha Boulevard; discovered in 1969; reconstructed here in 1976. Union General Joseph A.J. Lightburn made his headquarters in the cabin during the Battle of Charleston (09.13.1862). 29 September 2019

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Craik-Patton House. Rev. James Craik constructed this home in downtown Charleston in 1834. George S. Patton, a lawyer and leader of the Kanawha Riflemen, later lived in the home. Patton led the 22nd Virginia Infantry before his mortal wounding in 1864. The house was moved to this location in 1973. 29 September 2019

James Jeffrey Deposition about Labor Conditions in Logan County, WV (1923)

02 Tuesday Oct 2018

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DEPOSITION OF JAMES JEFFREY

STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA

Vs.

Edgar Combs

STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA, KANAWHA COUNTY, as:

James Jeffrey, Who, being first duly sworn by me says that he now lives at Jeffrey, Boone County, West Virginia, and has lived in that section of the country all of his life; that he has been connected with the Prohibition Department of the State as a Prohibition Officer, and at the present time is a Coal Miner by occupation; that he is familiar with what is known as the Mine Guard System in Logan County under which large numbers of Deputy Sheriffs are employed and paid by the Coal Companies of that County; that the principal purpose of employing such Deputy Sheriffs is to prevent the Coal Miners from joining the United Mine Workers of America; that he knows the general reputation of the said deputy Sheriffs as to their attitudes toward the members of said Union; that the said Deputies have a long record for assaults upon members of the United Mine Workers that there is a feeling of deep hostility and enmity between the said Deputies and the members of said Union; that practically the whole of Logan County excepting only the small position lying along Coal River is non-union and this is due wholy to the war made upon the said Union by the deputy sheriffs; that it is dangerous for any member of the said union to remain in said County, by reason of the said Deputies; that Affiant knows that the members of said union are afraid to go to Logan Court House, as a witness and there testify fully and freely in any matter that might arise the hostility of the said deputies or the company by which they are employed and the conduct of the said deputies toward the employees of the said Union primarily caused the Armed March of the miners in 1921; that by reason of the above facts this affiant knows that it would be impossible for the defendant to get a fair and impartial trial in the said County of Logan.

Taken, sworn and subscribed by me on the 29th day of September 1923.

Sallie Starr Chambers

Notary Public, Kanawha County, West Virginia