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    Droop is an unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States, in the Greenbrier River Valley. The community takes its name from...
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  • Look up droop in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. To droop means to hang down, to sag, particularly if limp. Droop may refer to: Droop nose (aeronautics)...
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  • Droop Mountain is a small mountain in the Allegheny Mountains on the border of Greenbrier and Pocahontas counties in southeastern West Virginia. It was...
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    The Battle of Droop Mountain occurred in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, on November 6, 1863, during the American Civil War. A Union brigade commanded...
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    Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park is a state park located on Droop Mountain in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. The park was the site of the Battle...
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  • Droop Mountain is an unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States. Droop Mountain is located on the Greenbrier River, 6...
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    West Virginia is a landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania to the north and east...
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    army units were involved in the Battle of Droop Mountain on November 6, 1863, near Hillsboro, West Virginia, in the American Civil War. Hillsboro, spelled...
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  • Thumbnail for Pocahontas County, West Virginia
    West Virginia Infantry Regiment. The battles of Cheat Mountain and Camp Allegheny took place in the county in 1861, and in 1863 the battle of Droop Mountain...
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    Recreation Section governs eight state forests. The first West Virginia state park, Droop Mountain Battlefield, was acquired in 1928 and dedicated in...
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    Marlinton is a town in and the county seat of Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 998 at the 2020 census. Located along...
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    Hillsboro is a town in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 232 at the 2020 census. Hillsboro was named for pioneer John...
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    Confederate Cemetery at Lewisburg (category Buildings and structures in Greenbrier County, West Virginia)
    County, West Virginia. The cemetery is the final resting place of 95 unknown Confederate soldiers from the Battles of Lewisburg (May 23, 1862) and Droop Mountain...
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    (October 13, 1863), Braxton County, West Virginia – Union garrison holds against Confederate attack. Battle of Droop Mountain (November 6, 1863), Pocahontas...
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  • Beartown State Park, a state park located in Droop Mountain, in northern Greenbrier County, West Virginia, in the United States Beartown Mountain, a mountain...
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    to Virginia after Gettysburg, the 16th Virginia Cavalry moved into West Virginia and participated in the Battle of Droop Mountain. The 16th Virginia Cavalry...
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    company was from West Virginia's Mercer County, and another company from North Carolina's Stokes County. Battles at White Sulphur Springs, Droop Mountain, and...
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    New River Gorge National Park and Preserve (category 1978 establishments in West Virginia)
    (NPS) designed to protect and maintain the New River Gorge in southern West Virginia in the Appalachian Mountains. Established in 1978 as a national river...
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    Echols', and McCausland's Brigade. It skirmished in western Virginia, then saw action at Droop Mountain and Lewisburg. During January 1864, it had 29 officers...
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    on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad. After the battle of Droop Mountain, (West) Virginia in November 1863 the Army of South Western Virginia was almost...
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    Beartown State Park (category Protected areas of Greenbrier County, West Virginia)
    eastern summit of Droop Mountain, 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Hillsboro, West Virginia, in northern Greenbrier County, West Virginia (with a small portion...
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    The 2nd West Virginia Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Many of its soldiers were...
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  • Hopkins Mountain Historic District (category American Civil War sites in West Virginia)
    It was used by the Virginia 26th Battalion under the command of Lt. Colonel George M. Edgar for its retreat from the Battle of Droop Mountain on November...
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    George S. Patton Sr. (category Military personnel from Charleston, West Virginia)
    Charleston, Virginia (now West Virginia). He married Susan Thornton Glassell in 1855. When the American Civil War broke out, he served in the 22nd Virginia Infantry...
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  • The Potomac Highlands of West Virginia (or just the Potomac Highlands) (listen) centers on five West Virginian counties (Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral...
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    state forest in Monongalia and Preston counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Its southern edge abuts Cheat Lake and the canyon section of Cheat...
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    of Stonewall Jackson Lake, an impoundment on the West Fork River in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The lake is a project of the United States Army Corps...
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    Thomas Maley Harris (category Physicians from West Virginia)
    the American Civil War. Born and raised in Harrisville, Virginia (now part of West Virginia), Harris originally set out to be a teacher, but changed...
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    memorial arch located in Memorial Park at Huntington, Cabell County, West Virginia. It was built between 1924 and 1929 by the Cabell County War Memorial...
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    West Virginia Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It fought in Virginia and West Virginia...
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