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

1. Skirmishing, New River

A carte de visite image of Union General George B. McClellan and his staff, left to right: Captain Clark, General McClellan striking a napoleonic pose, Captain Van Vliet and Major Barry. Information printed on the bottom of image: "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1862, by M.B. Brady, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Columbia."

2. General George McClellan and Staff

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.

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

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

4. Stonewall Jackson Headquarters, Winchester, Va.

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

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

Sigel commanded the Federal forces in the Shenandoah Valley during the Spring of 1864, with many West Virginia units under him. After his defeat at New Market, Virginia, Sigel was reassigned to the Department of West Virginia, protecting the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

6. Union General Franz Sigel

Milroy commanded the Cheat Mountain District in 1861, losing his first battle at Camp Allegheny. He surprised Stonewall Jackson at the Battle of McDowell in early May of 1862, inflicting heavy casualties.

7. Union General Robert H. Milroy

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.

8. Union General George McClellan

Unidentified officers, probably belonging to a West Virginia Regiment.

9. Group Portrait of Union Army Officers During Civil War

Pierpoint was originally from Morgantown, Virginia (later West Virginia. He was employed in Indiana at the start of the Civil War and enlisted in a Indiana regiment. His parents, also loyal to the Union, were still living in Morgantown. This cased image is probably an ambrotype.

10. Union Corporal Jacob Pierpoint, 19th Indiana Vol. Regiment

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

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

Before the war Davidson was a preacher in Taylor County.

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