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District of the Kanawha

District of the Kanawha

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District of the Kanawha, was a Union Army district during the American Civil War.

Commander

Posts in District of the Kanawha

Union posts were located near the Kanawha River Valley because supplies could be brought from the Ohio River up the Kanawha River to Charleston using small steamboats.

Notes

  1. Eicher, John H., & Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, p. 830, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3
  2. Scott, Robert N., "Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies Volume XIX Part I, Government Print Office, 1887, p.1058,ISBN 978-0-91867-807-2

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