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Timeline of West Virginia: Civil War and Statehood
Undated
May 1862


Wheeling Intelligencer
May 10, 1862

JOHN RIGHTER HEARD FROM.- We learn that John Righter, of Marion County, son of Peter Righter, has been hear from, down about Jimtown, in Monongalia County, and that Captain Showalter, of the 6th Virginia Regiment, had gone down to arrest him. John Righter is, or was, a guerilla, and is represented to be a daring and desperate rebel.


Timeline of West Virginia: Civil War and Statehood: Undated: May 1862

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