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Volunteers assemble for Union service at the corner of High and Walnut Street, opposite of the Court House in Morgantown, West Virginia.

109. Call to Arms: Volunteers for Union Army Assemble at Carrico Corner on High and Walnut Streets, Morgantown, W. Va.

Men are lined up on Carrico Corner due to the 'Call to Arms' for the Civil War.

110. Call to Arms: Volunteers for Union Army Assemble on High Street, Morgantown, Va. (later W. Va.)

Three men are standing outside the Wheeling Custom House, Federal Building, in Wheeling, West Virginia.

111. Wheeling Custom House, Federal Building, Wheeling, W. Va.

Men line up to volunteer across from the Court House, at Carrico Corner - High and Walnut Street, Morgantown, W. Va.

112. Call to Arms: Volunteers for Union Army Assemble on High Street, Morgantown, W. Va.

'From a sketch made on the hills of the Ohio side of the river. The oval, which appears in the foreground of the island, represents the Northwestern Virginia Fair Association and was known as Camp Carlile during the war.'

113. Bird's Eye View of Wheeling, W. Va.

114. Call to Arms: Volunteers for Union Army Assemble on High Street, Morgantown, W. Va.

'Original owned by Miss. Louisa Miller, L. B. 243 Blairsville, Pa.; the property of her father Rev. Noble Garcia Miller, D. D. at Allegheny College, 1861; died in Blairsville in 1918.  Miss Miller believes this picture was taken in 1861.'

115. Francis Pierpont

Union Gunboats, such as the one in this photograph, patrolled the Ohio River during the Civil War.

116. Union Navy Gunboat on Ohio River

The first of nine times this bridge, which crossed the Potomac River into Maryland, was destroyed during the Civil War. The damage in the photograph was the work of Confederate Colonel Thomas (later General "Stonewall") Jackson's troops, before pulling back to Winchester in June, 1861. The shells of the burned Armory buildings still stands in the background below the town.

117. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Bridge in Ruins, Harpers Ferry, Va. (W. Va.)

Geary commanded the 28th Pennsylvania Regiment and several other companies in the Harpers Ferry and Sandy Hook areas during the Union Army occupation in 1861. Identified officers are, L to R: 3rd from left, Captain Thomas Hollingsworth; 4th, General John Geary; 5th, Major Hector Tyndale.

118. Union General John Geary and Staff, Harpers Ferry, Va. (W. Va. )

Two unidentified Union soldiers in uniform, full pack and armed on Camp Hill above Harpers Ferry during the Federal forces occupation of the area early in the Civil War. Note the huge bayonets attached to their rifles.

119. Soldiers of 22nd New York Militia, Union Army, Harpers Ferry, Va. (W. Va.)

Mrs. S. F. Harsh is pictured.

120. Portrait of Louisa Harsh