A photograph taken about 1862 of a contraband servant named John Henry in a Union Army Camp. (Photo courtesy William Kerrigan)
John Henry Contraband
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Which are the five most haunted towns in West Virginia, wild and wonderful?
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Prehistoric West Virginia was never a so-called "uninhabited" hunting ground
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