New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-02

cabela in the winter Of 1853 The following spring
settlements were made the sources OF the Mohoh-
gabeIa in West Virginia De-eriers from Fort Pitt
made the first durable settlements there ~ 1901.
ClsrksbErg became a settlement Of note about 100.
West Virginia has p per cent Of the coal area oi
the AUeghsny Mountains but a. vet produces only
= ner cent Of the total production. All the rivers
flow, in deem trenches below the general level OF the
connty and therefore The traveller does not see the
fertile SUBMITS
WEST VIRGINIA. r. THE WAR
The military campaigns IN West Virginia are only
remembered in then intensity by the survivors Of
thc,u rs the reInotcucss of we country and its inn
perfectly understood topography have confused inc
story 10 the public mind West Virginia would
have been "a most important statcucal country 10
operate against the rebellion in virginia d th're
had been any railroads to a~.lst the p"Hl'ai Az
vantage Of the region The only railroad however
wa, the Baltimore and Ohio. which ran along Mason
and Dixons line At mo- great distance from IT, ana
sent oi,r arm up 10 Wheeling and the other down TO
p,rL.r,butg ON the Ohio. Stoncwali Jackson was
first launched against this railroad. and be threw IT.
Ruling sleek into the Potomac, but 80 exposed ms
men that numbers Of them were frozen u d'alh'
and Others were lost and starved no The laurel brush
This Was In the winter of 1861, following buli Kun
Stonrwal, Jackson was native Of Claikshurg,
West Virginia belonging 10 "a pro-savery family
ti,r,. Of considerable military virtues but Of Wild
mountain habits and beng left an orphan no child
hood he waS sent around among his relatives anu
made q horsc-jockey for country races ana manly
constable. At that period West Point cadct'hlps
went begging. and be- received such p nomination.
After the N,.lican War he became religious and
left the Army and became professor Of Ittlo
mental brightness or originality, at the Military
Academy at Lexington. The present Governor Of
West Virginia ir hiusman of Jackson and hcars the
FANNY name jackson organized the rebel troops
from various States al Ilarpcr's Ferry Tie OTTO
man character of his mind can Doe seen from the
view he expressed as as he took command That
the Snut ought to take mo- prisoners that u vas
n measure urgently dictated 10y the interests of the
Coniederacy and sustained 10y Justice He said the
war was the John Brown rand extended. and every
body concerned in IL ought TO Ice hanged. Jackson
made the name which has adhered 90 him 90 the
battle Of Bull Run. hut during the following year
his operations about Romncy and Moortield were 80
unfortunate that there WAS loud demand to take
him away from West Virginia and absorb INN into
some other part Of the army. In August following
the battle of Bull Run. Robert t. Lee with 10000
men undertook to keep the riads open between
SiauntOn, Va. and Parkersburg. and defeat the
Federals in the mountains and invade ONO or
threaten Pennsylvania. Bosccrans confronted
him. and on the Kanawha River General ). ID. Cox,
of Ohio, confronted Floyd. with whom WAS Henry
A. Wise Coz used steamers To ascend the Kama
wha The war went generally against the Conicd-
crates both on the Monongahela and on the Gaui"y
Rivers. Cox seized the Hawks Nest. mountain
wedge between the New River and the Gaulcy,
which commanded the roads and when his troops
crossed the New River they pursued the Confed-
crates To the wilderness Of Southwest Virginia.
Then John A. Reynolds the hero of Gettysburg,
confronted Lee in the Cheat Mountains. where WAS
killed John A. Washington. tho owner Of Mount
Vernon nj the age Of forty. lie was shot down by
pickcts from the State q Indiana President Hayes
WAS in the war in tins part Of the country and cap
tnrcd a guerilla band. Mcclellan and k"~ecrans
both made rapid rcputatious IN these mountains
and we've transferred IN greater fields. and Robert
r Milroy succeeded llosccrans. and finally cleaned
West Virginia out.
The principal authors OF the state IT Wet Nir-
eiuia were John :. Carlyle. of Wheeling, and
Francis n. Picrrcpout. with A. J. Boermau, Of
Park.rshurg There were twelve West Virginia
Feieral regiments Carlyle aud Willie we're chosen
! United States senators. The attempt was main
tanned 10 support two Governments ga Virginia. one
in the seeded part M behalf Of the Union and the
ot her I'M the same interest III the Eastern par 90
| Alexandria. There wtrr consequently thr'" Gov
ernorS of Virginia Ictcher az Richmond. llrfrrl"ut
/ al Alexandria and Buerinau at htrAhE 3D." utW
I Stlf, then had 23.OOu ~luarc miles of laud and
,unuufa ain and 90 Oup people. The ltofftl troops
uuder Avcr,ll and Tolland made extraordinary 90 us
! in parts of Ncst Virginia. Though generally ai-
/ tended with more adventure than result iiu-
State has rrlap~rd. from causes of race prejudice
aud want Of idcalism. 20 bc either Democratic "I
! GrcenbaCkeT.