...alley, by the Staunton and Parkersburg turnpike, a tolerably direct route, over the mountains, a distance of seventy-five to a hundred miles to Beverly, from which point they might menace and overawe Grafton , the junction of the main stem of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad with its branches to Parkersburg and Wheeling. But the reaction against secession, the reawakening of union feeling, the growth ...