District of the Kanawha

District of the Kanawha, was a Union Army district during the American Civil War.

Commander

Brig. Gen. Jacob D. Cox Oct. 11, 1861 – August 15, 1862 ^[1]
Colonel Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn August 17, 1862 – October 1862^[2]
Major General Jacob D. Cox Oct 1862

Posts in District of the Kanawha

map of Western Virginia in 1862 including the Kanawha River, which flows past Charleston to the Ohio River — Union posts were located near the Kanawha River Valley because supplies could be brought from the Ohio River up the Kanawha River to Charleston using small steamboats.

Post at Point Pleasant 1862
Buffalo
Charleston
Gauley Bridge
- Camp Tompkins (1861–1862), near Gauley Bridge
Summersville
Fayetteville
- Fort Toland, (1862–1863), later renamed Fort Scammon.
- Battery McMullan, near Fort Toland
Raleigh Courthouse (a.k.a. Beckley)

Notes

^ Eicher, John H., & Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, p. 830, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3
^ Scott, Robert N., "Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies Volume XIX Part I, Government Print Office, 1887, p.1058,ISBN 978-0-91867-807-2

References

National Archives, Guide to Federal Records; Records of United States Army Continental Commands, 1821–1920 (Record Group 393), 1817–1940 (bulk 1817–1920)

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