Broadside, “To The People of the Department of the Kanawha Valley,” John McCausland, 1861. (Sc85-75)
When his parents died in 1843, John McCausland came to live with relatives in Henderson, (West) Virginia, near Point Pleasant. After Virginia seceded in 1861, McCausland took command of the 36th Virginia Infantry. After the war he fled the country for fear he would face trial for his actions at Chambersburg, where he burned the city’s business district.
