The Droop Mountain Battlefield became the first West Virginia State Park and part of the Civil War Discovery Trail, now known ...

The battle is commonly considered the first land battle of the Civil War, though it is viewed as ... It also encouraged those in Western Virginia that wished to secede from Virginia and gain ...

The, in 1776, Virginia created three new counties—Ohio, Monongalia, and Yohogania. Yohogania would have taken up Hancock and ...

So in November 2023, Cole and her brother, Jon, visited Moorefield, West Virginia. At the time of the Civil War, it was ...

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. West Virginia ...

Former West Virginia Jail Officers Plead Guilty to Civil Rights Violation in Fatal Assault on Inmate CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Two more former correctional officers in West Virginia have pleaded ...

Two more former correctional officers in West Virginia have pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights violation in the death of a man who died less than a day after being booked into a jail.