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Our History & Heritage

Bill Keifer The Twelfth West Virginia Infantry Regiment was organized at Wheeling on August 30, 1862. Company I was comprised chiefly of soldiers from Hancock County.This Company consisted of approximately 100 soldiers and officers. As part of the Twelfth, it spent the Fall of 1862…

our History & our Heritage

Bill Kiefer The action at Philippi is significant for several reasons, but mostly it is remembered for being the first land battle of the Civil War. Some don’t give the action the dignity of classifying it as a battle, more of a skirmish maybe. But…

Our History & our Heritage by Bill Kiefer

The passage of the National Labor Relations Act, otherwise known as the “Wagner Act” after its chief sponsor Senator Robert R. Wagner of New York occurred in 1935. FDR signed it into law on July 5 of that year. The Act, which for the most…