POCAHONTAS COUNTY, W.Va. (WOWK) — When West Virginia became a state on June 20, 1863, the Civil War was still raging, meaning that even though it was no longer part of Virginia, Confederate ...

Located in Beckley, West Virginia, Fosters Main Street Tavern ... would meet to plan and socialize when they were both serving in the Civil War. (Not General Ulysses S. Grant, though; otherwise ...

Anna Jarvis was born in 1864 in West Virginia. She was one of her mother's more than 12 children -- though most died from diseases like measles. During the Civil War, Anna's mother, Ann Maria ...

Admitted to the Union in 1863, West Virginia was the only state created from breaking apart from a Confederate state during the Civil War and played a key role as a border state. NPR Stations ...

Strategically, the Eastern Theater was arguably the most important battleground of the Civil War; comprising the states of Virginia, West Virginia Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the District of ...

Perhaps the most well-known destination in West Virginia, Harpers Ferry is more than a quaint 19th-century town. It's a National Historic Park with Civil War sites including battlefields ...

Famous for leading the ill-fated "Pickett's Charge" at Gettysburg, George Pickett was a West Point ... killed by the war's end. George Edward Pickett was raised in Richmond, Virginia, the eldest ...