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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.

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

IDNO:
009060
Title:
Call to Arms: Volunteers for Union Army Assemble at Carrico Corner on High and Walnut Streets, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
1861
Description:
Volunteers assemble for Union service at the corner of High and Walnut Street, opposite of the Court House in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Men are lined up on Carrico Corner due to the 'Call to Arms' for the Civil War.

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

IDNO:
009078
Title:
Call to Arms: Volunteers for Union Army Assemble on High Street, Morgantown, Va. (later W. Va.)
Date:
1861
Description:
Men are lined up on Carrico Corner due to the 'Call to Arms' for the Civil War.

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

IDNO:
009110
Title:
Call to Arms: Volunteers for Union Army Assemble on High Street, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
1861
Members of the Grand Army of the Republic, Civil War veterans. Jonah Bayles, of the 7th West Virginia Infantry, is holding the flag on the right.

4. Grand Army of the Republic Veterans, Morgantown, W. Va.

IDNO:
010802
Title:
Grand Army of the Republic Veterans, Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
1918/05/30
Description:
Members of the Grand Army of the Republic, Civil War veterans. Jonah Bayles, of the 7th West Virginia Infantry, is holding the flag on the right.
Inscription the back of the photograph: "A group portrait of William H. Stafford, Jonah Bayles, and George W. Wilson. 'William H. Stafford: 1844-1938, EOG, Enlisted April 12, 1864 and discharged June 12, 1865, Co. B 14th West Virginia Infantry; George W. Wilson: 1841-1930, EOG Centennial, enlisted August 1861 and discharged April 6, 1865. Co. A 20th Reg. Va Vol Cav. Rank-Sgt; Jonah Bayles (center,[Private in the 7th West Virginia Infantry]: his family was from the Point Marion/Taylortown vicinity near the Pennsylvania/West Virginia border [Jonah Bayles was from Ices Ferry, Monongalia County, W. Va.]. He was married to Letitia Nabors and had five children, one of whom was a civil engineer who worked on the Trans-Andean Railroad in South America and later became a water commissioner in Morgantown (George Harmon Bayles).'

5. Civil War Veterans, Morgantown, W. Va.

IDNO:
010856
Title:
Civil War Veterans, Morgantown, W. Va.
Description:
Inscription the back of the photograph: "A group portrait of William H. Stafford, Jonah Bayles, and George W. Wilson. 'William H. Stafford: 1844-1938, EOG, Enlisted April 12, 1864 and discharged June 12, 1865, Co. B 14th West Virginia Infantry; George W. Wilson: 1841-1930, EOG Centennial, enlisted August 1861 and discharged April 6, 1865. Co. A 20th Reg. Va Vol Cav. Rank-Sgt; Jonah Bayles (center,[Private in the 7th West Virginia Infantry]: his family was from the Point Marion/Taylortown vicinity near the Pennsylvania/West Virginia border [Jonah Bayles was from Ices Ferry, Monongalia County, W. Va.]. He was married to Letitia Nabors and had five children, one of whom was a civil engineer who worked on the Trans-Andean Railroad in South America and later became a water commissioner in Morgantown (George Harmon Bayles).'