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    Ghosts of Rich Mountain Battle

    Comrades-in-arms bury Indiana volunteers who fell in battle atop Rich Mountain

    In one of the first engagements of the American Civil War, Union regiments under the overall command of General George B. McClellan attacked and defeated Confederate troops defending a strategic mountain pass on the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike.

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