Statistics for occurrence #1 of “western Virginia” in part 10.33, chapter 10.35 of Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1.:
... securer opportunities for such enlistments, it was necessary to make an effort to occupy eastern Kentucky.
This was desirable, also, in order to protect vital interests of the Confederacy in south- western Virginia , where were situated the great salt-works and lead-mines of the South, and where ran the chief line of railway, connecting Virginia with the Gulf States.
With these objects in view, on the 1st o...
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