During and after the Civil War, dozens of skirmishes, raids, and armed encounters occurred in this border area, and the lengthy struggle only ended with the statewide Democratic victory in the 1870 election.
Joe Geiger, Jr. has worked at West Virginia Archives and History since 1998 and is West Virginia's state historian and state archivist. A graduate of Marshall University, he formerly served as an adjunct instructor in the history departments at Marshall University and West Virginia State University. He is the author of Civil War in Cabell County, West Virginia 1861-1865 and Holding the Line: The Battle of Allegheny Mountain.
