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The 31st Virginia Regiment, Confederate Army, included mostly soldiers from North-central Western Virginia (West Virginia).

49. Encampment of Artillery Unit Possibly in Thirty First Virginia Regiment During Civil War

Wagons and cannons parked at an encampment. Note the laundry hanging on a caisson in the foreground.

50. Possibly Artillery Unit in Thirty First Regiment, Confederate Army

Also known as Maulsby's Battery, this unit saw action through out the Civil War mostly in the Shenandoah Valley Campaigns. Among the soldiers is Sergeant John W. Mason from Morgantown, West Virginia who taught at West Virginia University in 1867 and subsequently served on the West Virginia Supreme Court.

51. Battery F, First West Virginia Light Artillery

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

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

Civil War Federal Army camp at New Creek, West Virginia. The town of New Creek, later named Keyser, is seen in the background.

53. Camp of 22nd Pennsylvania (Ringgold) Cavalry, Union Army, New Creek (Keyser), W.Va.

Civil War military camp at New Creek (Now Keyser), W. Va.

54. Camp of 22nd Pennsylvania (Ringgold) Cavalry, Union Army, New Creek (Keyser), W.Va.

Drawing of Infantry members holding a religious service.    Caption reads 'Our Chaplain gives us a copy of this Engraving, to show our friends the way we sing and hold meetings in camp.  He desires us to tell them to pray for us and him, that we may prove faithful to our country and our God, and not be found wanting in any day of temptation and trial.'

55. Camp of 5th Virginia Vol. Infantry, U.S.A., Falls of Kanawha, West Virginia

An illustrated portrait of Elmer Ellsworth, Colonel of a New York Zouave Unit in the Union Army. A favorite friend of the Lincoln family, Ellsworth was killed by a Southern sympathizer, May, 1861 in Alexandria, Virginia.

56. Ellsworth, Elmer E. Colonel, Union Army

Sketched fr. nature and drawn on stone.  Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1862 by J. Nep. Roesler in the Clerks office of the District Court of the Southern District of Ohio.  Printed by Ehrgott, Forbriger, and Co., Cincinnatti, 1862.  Library of Congress Neg. No. LC- USZ62-17573.

57. Crossing Little Birch River to Bulltown, Va., now W. Va.

Members of Co. A., 12th W.Va. Infantry.  Standing:  Philip McCleary Pelley, *Wm. Magers, John Trenter*, George Gossett, *John C. Crow, C.C. Mathews, Mahlon Geurin, Abram Jones*, Wm. H. Dorsey*.  Seated on chairs:  Alex Connor, Absolem Crow, John G. Jones*, John Robert Talbert, James Logsdon, Daniel Morris.  Seated on floor:  Timothy B. Baker, Bill Stein, John W. Edwards*.  *= Decea.

58. Veterans of the12th W. Va. Volunteer Infantry

Gold eagle on top of an American flag.  Copyright 1908 by W.T. Hicoll.

59. Gold Eagle Presented to the 12th W.Va. by Genl. Gibbon

Sketch of soldiers engaged in battle at Rich Mountain.

60. Battle of Rich Mountain