District of the Kanawha
District of the Kanawha, was a Union Army district during the American Civil War.
Commander
- Brig. Gen. Jacob D. Cox Oct. 11, 1861 – August 15, 1862 [1]
- Colonel Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn August 17, 1862 – October 1862[2]
- Major General Jacob D. Cox Oct 1862
Posts in District of the Kanawha
- Post at Point Pleasant 1862
- Buffalo
- Charleston
- Gauley Bridge
- Camp Tompkins (1861–1862), near Gauley Bridge
- Summersville
- Fayetteville
- Fort Toland, (1862–1863), later renamed Fort Scammon.
- Battery McMullan, near Fort Toland
- Raleigh Courthouse (a.k.a. Beckley)
Notes
- ^ Eicher, John H., & Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, p. 830, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3
- ^ 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