Here are 20 events from the sources:
- Three fights known as the battles of the Greenbrier, one on October 31, 1861, one October 3, 1861, and one December 12, 1861.
- The first of the battles of the Greenbrier was a Confederate victory and is considered one of the greatest victories of that year.
- **The battle of October 3 is called a reconnaissance in force. The Confederates lost because the soldiers refused to go into the Federal army camp. **
- Joseph Knight was killed instantly in Cass, WV when he stepped in front of a train at a lumber yard.
- Mr. and Mrs. Austin Nottingham had 11 children.
- Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Galford tied with Mr. and Mrs. Galford for nine children.
- W. Berlin Simmons, superintendent of schools in Morgan County, delivered an afternoon address.
- Charles F. Revercomb celebrated his 89th birthday in Marlinton.
- The 25th regiment was captured at Gettysburg.
- Seventeen men of Company (I) were captured. They were taken to Point Lookout, MD. Eleven of the seventeen lived through the war, the others died prisoners.
- Will and Henry Yeager and W. H. Hull were captured February 6, 1865 at Hatcher's Run near Petersburg, Virginia.
- Henry Yeager and W. H. Hull were captured on March 25, 1865, and taken to Point Lookout, Maryland.
- James Arbogast was killed February 6, 1865 at Hatcher's Run near Petersburg, Virginia, and was buried there.
- Andrew Wanless died in 1861.
- William Arbogast died in service at Winchester Virginia.
- William Sives Moore escaped from the army in time to escape with 6 others hidden at Wheeling during the war.
- George Cochran was a prisoner of war at Fort Delaware.
- John B. McCutcheon returned from the battle of Seven Pines against his captain's advice. Overcome with fatigue, he developed pneumonia and died.
- James C. Moore died June 1864 near New Hope, Va.
- James Crawford Arbogast was killed June 9th, 1862.
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