The Jones-Imboden Raid
The Confederate Attempt to Destroy the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and Retake West Virginia
Darrell L.
Collins
ISBN
978-0-7864-3070-3
11 photos, maps, notes, bibliography, index
220pp.
softcover
(7 x 10)
2007
Available for immediate shipment
Description
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.
About the Author
Writer Darrell L. Collins lives in Conifer, Colorado.
Reviews
“Solid, primary source testimony...a cohesive, easy-to-follow narrative”—Blue & Gray Magazine
“Clear and very readable...sources are sound...well supported”—The Civil War Courier.
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