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

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

IDNO:: 000850
Title:: Possibly Artillery Unit in Thirty First Regiment, Confederate Army
Date:: ca.1864
Description:: Wagons and cannons parked at an encampment. Note the laundry hanging on a caisson in the foreground.

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.

2. Battery F, First West Virginia Light Artillery

IDNO:: 000851
Title:: Battery F, First West Virginia Light Artillery
Date:: ca. 1861-1865
Description:: 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.

Pyramids of cannon balls sit on either side of the rustic cannon.

3. Civil War Cannon in Courthouse Park, Hinton, W. Va.

IDNO:: 049151
Title:: Civil War Cannon in Courthouse Park, Hinton, W. Va.
Date:: ca. 1920
Description:: Pyramids of cannon balls sit on either side of the rustic cannon.