The Jones-Imboden Raid: The Confederate Attempt to Destroy the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and Retake West Virginia Paperback McFarland and Company, Inc.
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The Jones-Imboden Raid: The Confederate Attempt to Destroy the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and Retake West Virginia Paperback McFarland and Company, Inc.

The Jones-Imboden Raid: The Confederate Attempt to Destroy the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and Retake West Virginia

McFarland and Company, Inc.
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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.

Author: Darrell L. Collins
Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
Published: 08/14/2007
Pages: 220
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 10.01h x 7.06w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9780786430703
ISBN10: 0786430702
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- History | Military | United States

About the Author
Darrell L. Collins has written several books on Civil War topics. He lives in Montrose, Colorado.