2006
Civil War Institute
Mayhem
in the Mountains
The
2006 tour of West Virginia battlefields, June 9-12, 2006, co-sponsored
by the Rich Mountain Battlefield Foundation and the Shenandoah Civil
War Associates, was rated by the participants as an outstanding success.
The program, based in Elkins West Virginia, studied and toured the major
battlefields of "The First Campaign" in 1861. Led by historians
Hunter Lesser, author of Rebels at the Gate: Lee and McClellan at
the Front Line of a Nation Divided, Jeff Wert and John Heatwole,
the group visited Philippi, Laurel Hill, Rich Mountain, Cheat Fort,
Camp Bartow, Camp Allegheny, and Corricks Ford. Although the 1861 campaigns
in West Virginia were an important series of victories for Union forces
under General George B. McClellan, these battles often do not receive
the attention they deserve from students of the Civil War. Hunter Lesser's
brilliantly conducted tours served to educate all those who attended
this program that covered the major clashes of Union and Confederate
armies at the outbreak of the Civil War.
2006
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