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Union troops defeat a Confederate force on Droop Mountain in Pocahontas County

West Virginia is only months old as a Union state, and the fight for its mountain back country goes to the North.

By the autumn of 1863, Vicksburg and Gettysburg were behind the Union, and the mountains of western Virginia were still contested. West Virginia had split from Virginia and entered the Union that year, and Confederate forces continued to operate in its high country. On November 6, 1863, a Union brigade defeated a Confederate force at Droop Mountain in Pocahontas County. The victory helped secure the new state for the Union and cut into Confederate communications and supply lines in the region…

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