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'Morgans Raiders are bound for Wheeling.' Excitement in the McClure House due to news of war. In the group, right, leaning against the stair rail is Hon. Wlm E. Stevenson, of Parkersburg, President of the 1863 senate and later governor; wearing a white hat is Leroy Kramer, Capt. Kramer Guards and 1864 Speaker of the House; James C. McGrew, Preston Co., later a Congressman, reads newspaper, Archibald W. Campbell, editor of the Wheeling Intelligencer with hands clasped behind his back. See West Virginia Collection Pamphlet 6610 and Boyd Stutler's 'West Virginia in the Civil War.'

1. Drawing of Men in the Lobby of the McClure House in Wheeling to Hear News of the War

General Averell and his men in the rain during the raid on Salem. The men rode through pelting rain and in freezing weather. From a sketch in Harpers Weekly, Jan 16, 1864. See West Virginia Collection Pamphlet 6610 and Boyd Stutler's West Virginia in the Civil War.

2. General Averell's Raid on Salem