In the American Civil War Valley Campaigns of 1864, there was a skirmish on 12 November 1864 at Nineveh. Union Army soldiers Private James F. Adams and Sergeant Levi Shoemaker, both of the 1st Regiment, West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry, were awarded the Medal of Honor for capturing flags from two Confederate cavalry regiments in this skirmish. Confederate Lieutenant General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson in November 1862 was encamped at Nineveh.