Going Home to Virginia Art Print
An archival premium Quality Art Print of a Civil War soldier Going Home to Virginia for sale by Brandywine General Store. This print of course is from a battle reenactment from Droop Mountain in Pocahontas County West Virginia. In early November, Brig. Gens. W.W. Averell and Alfred Napoleon Alexander Duffié embarked on a raid into southwestern Virginia to disrupt the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad. While Duffié’s column destroyed military property en route, Averell encountered and defeated a Confederate brigade under Brig. Gen. John Echols at Droop Mountain. The Union columns joined again at Lewisburg the next day but were in no condition to continue their raid. After this battle, Confederate resistance in West Virginia collapsed. But by no means did this mean that the people of the mountainous border counties turned their sympathies to the Union, most of these citizens still remained fiercely loyal to the Southern Confederacy. This was the last major land battle of the Civil War in what was then western Virginia. However, by the time this battle was fought in the latter part of 1863, West Virginia had already seceded from Virginia. This soldier was going home to Virginia to fight another day for the Confederate Army, perhaps to protect the Confederate capitol of Richmond. Picture #218 an original civil war art print made from a photograph in the Brandywine collection.
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