File:Prelude to Battle of White Sulphur Springs.png

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English: This map shows the first few days of Br. Gen. William W. Averell's first West Virginia Raid that led to the Battle of White Sulphur Springs in August 1863 during the American Civil War.
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Source This is a crop of an 1864 map created by Alvin Jewett Johnson. The entire map can be found in the Library of Congress here, and shows Virginia, Delaware, Maryland & West Virginia. Text box and arrows etc. were added by TwoScarsUp based on William W. Averell's September 1, 1863 report in Official Records XXIX p. 33.
Author Alvin Jewett Johnson (1827-1884)

U.S. states of West Virginia and (western) Virginia.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

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Averell's force moved from Petersburg to Monterey, and destroyed a Confederate gunpowder works.

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