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Timeline of West Virginia: Civil War and Statehood
March 26, 1864


The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
March 28, 1864

Two rebel Lieutenants named W. McKaig and John Hanson, recently captured at North river, arrived in the city on Saturday evening and were committed to the Atheneum. They resided before the war at Cumberland and have lately been attached to Gilmore's gang of thieves who not long since stopped a train of cars on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and robbed the passengers.


Timeline of West Virginia: Civil War and Statehood: March 1864

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