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Rocky Gap is an unincorporated community that is located in Bland County in the U.S. state of Virginia. [1] In the year of 2016, there was an estimate that there were a total of 511 people living in Rocky Gap. [2] Rocky Gap has one zip code (24366).
An official state welcome center awaits your arrival in Rocky Gap, Virginia. Conveniently located on I-77S as you enter Virginia from West Virginia, it’s your one-stop source for Virginia travel information.
- Interstate 77S, MM 61 P.O. Box 96, Rocky Gap, 24366, VA
- (276) 928-1873
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- Background and Plans
- Opposing Forces
- Initial Movements
- Battle
- Retreat and Pursuit
- Aftermath
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West Virginia
Between December 20, 1860, and February 1, 1861, seven southern states seceded from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America.[Note 1] Fighting began on April 12, 1861, when American troops were attacked at Fort Sumter in South Carolina, and this is considered the beginning of the American Civil War. Four additional states, including Virginia, seceded during the next three months. On April 17, 1861, representatives of the Commonwealth of Virginia held the Virginia Secessi...
Railroads
About 20 percent of the Confederacy's railroad network was in Virginia, where the Confederate capital city of Richmond had railroads entering and exiting from the north, east, south, and west. Among Virginia's railroads, the 200-mile (320 km) Virginia Central Railroad ran from Richmond deep into the western side of the upper Shenandoah Valley. It was used to shuttle troops and bring raw materials from the Valley to eastern population centers such as Richmond. Another important railway was the...
William W. Averell
Brigadier General William W. Averell was a West Point graduate, excellent horseman, and had experience fighting in the New Mexico Territory during the 1850s. Early in the American Civil War, he trained the 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment as its colonel. His men considered him an excellent drillmaster, and at least one historian believed the regiment was "one of the best–trained and best–disciplined" volunteer cavalry regiments. On September 26, 1862, he was promoted to brigadier general in...
With the exception of the Union cavalry, the Battle of White Sulphur Springs was fought in West Virginia by West Virginia and Virginia units. Some of the men from one of the Confederate units were from Greenbrier County, West Virginia, where the battle occurred. Others were from adjacent counties such as Monroe and Mercer. CompanyG from 26th Virgin...
During July 1863, most of Averell's 4th Separate Brigade was involved with small attacks on General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia as it retreated from the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. The 2nd West Virginia Mounted Infantry Regiment was detached during that month and into August, and was split with companies in West Virginia nea...
Edgar starts the battle
Patton's brigade marched for nearly 24 consecutive hours trying to find Averell. His advance, consisting of the 26th Virginia Infantry Battalion, reached the junction of Anthony's Creek Road with the James River and Kanawha Turnpike on the morning of August 26 slightly ahead of Averell.[Note 9] The 26th Virginia was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel George M. Edgar, and is often called Edgar's Battalion. Edgar's men quickly made a crude barricade on the road to Callaghan's by tearing down nearb...
Line of battle formed
Patton deployed the 45th Virginia Infantry Regiment on his right, and the 22nd Virginia Infantry Regiment on his left. The 45th Virginia, commanded by Colonel William H. Browne, used 100 men led by Captain William H. Thompson to extend the battle line west and occupy a small hill. Averell deployed the main body of the 8th West Virginia, commanded by Colonel Oley, on his left (Patton's right). The 2nd West Virginia took the right side of the road.As the day progressed, Averell had Gibson's Cav...
Incessant fire
Averell brought the 2nd West Virginia and 14th Pennsylvania Cavalry to the right side of the road. Patten added the 23rd Virginia Infantry Battalion, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Clarence Derrick, around 10:00am.With Derrick were 200 men from the 37th Virginia Infantry Battalion. Gibson's Cavalry Battalion was also sent to the right. A soldier from the 3rd West Virginia wrote that for the next four or five hours, an "almost incessant fire" of artillery and muskets took place as neither sid...
Patton ordered Colonel Corns and the 8th Virginia Cavalry to pursue Averell's retreating brigade. He used a rifled artillery piece to dislodge the first of Averell's blockades. Further down the road, Corns discovered that the blockade was too difficult to remove quickly, and cavalry could not go around it. Averell's brigade reached Callaghan's abou...
Casualties from the battle
The road from Callagan's, from the Miller House to where it intersects with Anthony Creek Road, was "strewn with dead and wounded soldiers".The two houses on the side of the road by the intersection, one known as the Dixon house and other a log house, were used as hospitals for both sides. Amputations were made at the log house, and arms and legs were piled as high as the window sills. Averell listed 26 officers and enlisted men killed, 125 wounded, and 67 captured or missing for a total of 2...
Performance and impact
Confederate Lieutenant Colonel Edgar wrote, "Of all the battles of the Civil War, fought in the Department of Western Virginia, none were more prolonged, more stubbornly fought, more creditable of the commanding officer and his subordinate officers of all arms, or to the rank and file, or more interesting in their details than that of White Sulphur Springs, Dry Creek, or Rocky Gap, as it has been variously called."[Note 13]A Confederate historian wrote that the "Battle of Dry Creek was one of...
Battlefield
As of 2011, little remains of the battlefield. The valley portion of the battlefield is a strip mall, and Interstate 64 runs through another portion. Three small monuments are located near a fast food restaurant at the intersection of West Virginia Route 92 and US Route 60. One, with a heading of "Dry Creek Battle" commemorates the battle. Next to it is a small monument to Baron Paul von Köenig, who led some of the Union charges and was killed in the battle. The von Köenig monument was dedica...
- August 26–27, 1863
- Confederate victory
Welcome to the Blue Ridge Highlands! An official state welcome center awaits your arrival in Rocky Gap, Virginia. Conveniently located on I-77S as you enter Virginia from West Virginia, it’s your one-stop source for Virginia travel information.
The Bland County History Archives are maintained by the students of Rocky Gap High School in Rocky Gap,Virginia. They consist of cemetery catalogs, over 300 interviews, hundreds of photographs, maps, and artifacts.
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