File:Kanawha River and Nearby Counties.png

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English: This map shows the counties where most of the soldiers in the 22nd Virginia Infantry Regiment lived. The map is of western Virginia in the early 1860s, and a large portion of the western portion of the Confederate state of Virginia became part of the Union state of West Virginia in 1863.
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Source This is a crop from Johnson's Virginia, Delaware, Maryland & Virginia map published in 1864. It can be found in the U.S. Library of Congress here. TwoScarsUp has added a label and highlighted counties that were the major sources of recruits for the 22nd Virginia Infantry Regiment that fought in the American Civil War. Source for the counties is "A Guide to Virginia Military Organizations 1861-1865", by Lee A. Wallace.
Author The map is by Alvin Jewett Johnson (1827-1884), and was published in 1864. TwoScarsUp made modifications.

Western Virginia, USA - later became West Virginia

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Most of the soldiers in the 22nd Virginia Infantry were from counties near the Kanawha River and its tributaries

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1 January 1864Gregorian

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current21:27, 16 November 2022Thumbnail for version as of 21:27, 16 November 2022671 × 676 (1,018 KB)TwoScarsUpUploaded a work by The map is by Alvin Jewett Johnson (1827-1884), and was published in 1864. TwoScarsUp made modifications. from This is a crop from Johnson's Virginia, Delaware, Maryland & Virginia map published in 1864. It can be found in the U.S. Library of Congress [https://www.loc.gov/item/lva0000026/ here]. TwoScarsUp has added a label and highlighted counties that were the major sources of recruits for the 22nd Virginia Infantry Regiment that fought in the American Civil War. Source f...

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