File:Averell Return Salem Raid.png

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English: Map shows the return route used by Union Brigadier General William W. Averell after a raid on the Salem railroad depot during the American Civil War. He (blue) was pursued by multiple Confederate (red) forces, and almost half of his force narrowly escaped capture near Covington, Virginia.
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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 boxes and circles were added by TwoScarsUp based on descriptions in the books The Fourteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry in the Civil War by William Davis Slease and History of the Fifth West Virginia Cavalry, formerly the Second Virginia Infantry, and of Battery G, First West Virginia Light Artillery by Francis Smith Reader.
Author Alvin Jewett Johnson (1827-1884)

West Virginia and Virginia in the United States

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Averell struggled to get his Union force home from Salem as it was pursued by multiple Confederate forces

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current19:16, 9 July 2021Thumbnail for version as of 19:16, 9 July 2021566 × 784 (923 KB)TwoScarsUpUploaded a work by Alvin Jewett Johnson (1827-1884) from This is a crop of an 1864 map created by Alvin Jewett Johnson. The entire map can be found in the Library of Congress [https://www.loc.gov/item/lva0000096/ here], and shows Virginia, Delaware, Maryland & West Virginia. Text boxes and circles were added by TwoScarsUp based on descriptions in the books The Fourteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry in the Civil War by William Davis Slease and History of the Fifth West Virginia Cavalry, formerly the...

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