Rich Mountain Event

Battlefield/Beverly Site Images These images were taken in July & September 2004. Click on each to see a larger version.

Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike	Woods Near the Rich Mountain Summit	Views In and Around Rich Mountain

Views In and Around Rich Mountain. This view is taken on the South side of the mountain facing west.	Historic Downtown Beverly. The Beverly Historic Society is actively restoring downtown landmarks.	Hunter Lesser - Author of Rebels at the Gate is our history consultant for the event.

A Carving From the Battlefield - "Clay Jackson shot and killed here in 1861" - Pvt. Jackson was in 2nd Co. B of the 25th Virginia.	The Hart Family Farm was the Center of the Action. This photo was taken in the early 20th Century. The house burned 1940.	A Fresh Water Spring is Located on Rich Mountain and runs near Camp Garnett on the western side of the mountain.

Faces of Rich Mountain Contributed by Mark Jaeger of Purdue University. Click on each to see a larger version.

Mahlon Manson (Colonel, 10th Indiana)	William P. Benton (Colonel, 8th Indiana)	Jeremiah C. Sullivan (Colonel, 13th Indiana)

Samuel Beatty (19th Ohio)	Reuben C. Kise (1840-1872) - Lt. of Company I, "Boone Invincibles," 10th IVI at the time of Rich Mountain	Captain William H. Morgan, Company K, 10th IVI

Wartime view of 2nd Corporal Felix Shumate, Company I, 10th IVI. Shumate later commanded Company I of the "Three Years" 10th Indiana.	Captain William C. Kise - Co. I, 10th IVI. Father of Reuben Kise. Later took over command of the 10th Indiana (1861-62) after Mahlon Manson was promoted to general.	Major William C. Wilson, 10th Indiana. Wounded in the leg during the battle, he recovered to serve on the staff of or command three other regiments including the 40th Indiana.

Private Collins Blackmer, Company E, 10th IVI. Blackmer later served in Company E of the "Three Years" 10th IVI, was transferred to Company E, 58th IVI, and finished the war as A.Q.M. of the 44th USCI. He was mustered out in 1866.	Captain Christian "Chris" Miller, Company A, "Lafayette Legion," 10th IVI. He was badly wounded by a .69 buck and ball round when Rosecrans' column ran into pickets of the 25th VA. He eventually died from the effects of his wounds in 1871.	1st Lt. Jehu W. Perkins, Co. I, 10th IVI. Perkins was elected Captain of the "Three Years" 10th IVI but died, on 16 November 1863, after being accidentally shot by a sentry while making the rounds as Office-of-the-Day during the Siege of Chattanooga.

Postwar image of Adjutant Joseph C. Suit, 10th IVI. Suit was initially 1st Lieutenant of Company C, "Clinton Rangers," 10th IVI but was subsequently appointed as Regimental Adjutant.	Private George Tarvin Chapin, Company H, "Putnam Union Guards," 10th IVI. Chapin was later KIA at Resaca GA, on 14 May 1864, while serving as 1st Lieutenant of Company I, 27th IVI.	1st Lieutenant Abram O. Miller, Company C, "Clinton Rangers," 10th IVI. He was later appointed Lt. Col. of the "Three Years" 10th IVI. In August 1862 he was appointed Colonel of the 72nd IVI (later of Wilder's Lightning Brigade).

Silas Colgrove - At the outbreak of the Civil War, he was elected captain of the 8th Indiana Infantry Regiment and was later promoted to lieutenant colonel. With the 8th, he served in western Virginia and fought at Rich Mountain.	David Shunk, then from Marion, Indiana, was major of the 8th Indiana Infantry, a three-month regiment. The 8th was part of the western Virginia campaign and saw action at Rich Mountain.	Captain Reuben Riley (Company I, 8th IVI). Reuben Riley was the father of noted Indiana poet James Whitcomb Riley.

Confederate Images The second three images are on display at the at the Rich Mountain Museum in Beverly. The second set of three are from the "25th Virginia Infantry & 9th Infantry Battalion Regimental History" by Richard Armstrong.

Pvt. John Bailey, 2nd Co. A 25th Virginia Infantry Regiment	Colonel George Porterfield 25th Virginia Infantry Regiment	Pvt. John Brownlee Bell, 2nd Co. D 25th Virginia Infantry Regiment

Sgt. John Norris, 2 Co. A, 25th Virginia Infantry Regiment	John Carlton Higginbotham was later a Colonel in the 25th Virginia	Major D. W. Anderson - 44th Virginia Infantry