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Drawing of soldiers and wagon trains crossing the Potomac in this sketch by A. Lumley.

1. Trains Crossing the Potomac

The Thirteenth Massachusetts and Twelfth Indiana Regiments crossing the Potomac  sketched by Thomas Nast.

2. Thirteenth Massachusetts and Twelfth Regiments Crossing the Potomac

Depicting a battle between Confederate Cavalry and Union Infantry.

3. Civil War Mural in Greenbrier Cottage, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.

A mural at the Greenbrier Cottages in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia depicting a Civil War battle.

4. Civil War Mural in Greenbrier Cottage, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.

House with trees in front and American flag hanging.

5. Headquarters of General Jackson

Wellsburg?

6. Civil War Military Unit

'Mortar used in Civil War in siege of such [cities] as Vicksburg.'

7. Civil War Mortar

'Library of Congress Negative Number: LC-USZ6Z-17575'

8. Skirmishing, New River

'Library of Congress Negative Number: LC-USZ6Z-20525'

9. Steamboats Conveying Troops and Munitions of War for the Federal Forces on the Great Kanawha, Bell Air, OH.

James F. Ellis enlisted in the army in August, 1862. He fought in several Civil War battles including Union General Phil Sheridan's 1864 Valley Campaign and was wounded three times during his service. Ellis was captured by Confederate forces during the Battle of Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864 and imprisoned at Salisbury, North Carolina. Ellis died in Salisbury Prison, February 13, 1865.

10. Union Army Corporal James F. Ellis of Weston, Lewis County, W. Va., Company B, 15th West Virginia Infantry

A photograph of a sketch of the Commander of 7th West Virginia Regiment, Army of the Potomac. Lockwood took command during the Battle of Fredericksburg, December 1862 to the Battle of Spotsylvania, May, 1864, where he was wounded.

11. Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan H. Lockwood, Seventh West Virginia Infantry

This photograph shows Baldwin later in life as a "scholarly patriarch". He assumed command of the regiment following Jonathan Lockwood's resignation.

12. Lieutenant Colonel Francis W. H. Baldwin, Commander of the Seventh West Virginia Infantry During the Appomattox Campaign

Commander of the 12th West Virginia Infantry Regiment, Army of the Potomac. Curtis was brevetted Brigadier General in recognition of his part in the attack on Fort Gregg of the Petersburg siege line, April 2, 1965.

13. Colonel William B. Curtis, Twelfth West Virginia Regiment

Snider, from Monongalia County, W. Va. took command of the 7th West Virginia Regiment in August, 1862. He was seriously wounded at Fredericksburg, December, 1862.

14. Colonel Joseph Snider, Seventh West Virginia Infantry

Group portrait of mounted Company G. The three officers identified are L to R: Captain James S. Cassady, First Lieutenant James D. Fellers, and Second Lieutenant John E. Swaar. Other soldiers are not identified

15. Company G, Seventh West Virginia Cavalry, Union Army

McClellan commanded Federal troops in Western Virginia at the outbreak of the Civil War. After an initial victory at Rich Mountain and the Union's embarrassing defeat at Manassas, McClellan was given command of the Union Army of the Potomac.

16. Union General George McClellan

Cather fought in several battles in Western (West) Virginia, the Shenandoah Valley, at Petersburg and on Lee's Retreat. He served under McClellan in 1861, David Hunter, 1864 and Sheridan, 1864-65. Cather was also under the division command of George Custer, riding with Custer into many battles in 1864-65.

17. Major Fabricius A. Cather, 1st West Virginia Cavalry from Flemington, Taylor County, W. Va.

Cather was a Civil War veteran (Major, 1st West Virginia Cavalry), a farmer, surveyor and for a short time Adjutant General of West Virginia. He was married to Helen V. Mallonee.

18. Fabricius A. Cather, Flemington, Taylor County, W. Va.

Unidentified officers, probably belonging to a West Virginia Regiment.

19. Group Portrait of Union Army Officers During Civil War

During the Civil War, Goff enlisted in the Confederate Army at age 17, in the 19th Virginia Cavalry and later, Company A, 26th Virginia Cavalry. After the war, he married Rachael Morton.

20. Thomas M. Goff, Webster County, W. Va.

Before the war Davidson was a preacher in Taylor County.

21. Union First Lieutenant John N. Davidson of Flemington, Taylor County, W. Va.

Davidson was a preacher before the war. According to F. A. Cather's diary, AM 3633, Davidson died in April 12, 1864, probably from disease. There is a revenue stamp on the back of the photograph indicating a tax had been paid on the image. This tax was implemented to pay for the war.

22. Union First Lieutenant John N. Davidson of Flemington, Taylor County, W. Va.

Postcard photograph of Stonewall Jackson's Headquarters. Most of the building is obscured by trees. See back of the original image for correspondence.

23. Stonewall Jackson Headquarters, Winchester, Va.