| The Jones-Imboden Raid: The Confederate Attempt to Destroy the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and Retake West Virginia Contributor(s): Collins, Darrell L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0786430702 ISBN-13: 9780786430703 Publisher: McFarland & Company OUR PRICE: $39.55 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2007 Annotation: When Virginia seceded from the United States in 1861, its western counties showed very little popular support for the Confederacy, and loyalist bands of bushwhackers, partisans and guerillas drove most Southern sympathizers from the region. Most inconvenient for the Confederacy was the fact that these counties (which later would become West Virginia) housed the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which connected Washington with the Midwest's vast wealth of manpower and supplies. This work covers the Confederacy's 1863 attempt to invade West Virginia and destroy the critical B&O line. Rich with oral history, the book gives a detailed, personal account of the ultimately unsuccessful Jones-Imboden Raid. |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - History | Military - United States |
| Dewey: 973.745 |
| LCCN: 2007021186 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 7.06" W x 10.01" (0.92 lbs) 220 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - West Virginia - Topical - Civil War - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 |