Jones-Imboden Raid

truckinbutch · Feb 19, 2008

I would like to track Gen.W [Grumble] Jones part of the Jones-Imboden Raid from the capture of Morgantown,WV to the capture of Fairmont,WV the next day.
Can anyone offer any help?

Siegfried Schlagrule · Feb 20, 2008

try the online version of the official records of the Union and Confederacy. siegfried schlagrule

gldhntr · Feb 21, 2008

maybe this will help.......

o.r. available at cornell university website.available here..;;;;;;;; http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/browse.monographs/waro.html

. put the https below into your web address box for a couple pertinent records......

http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-...otisid=ANU4519-0039&coll=moa&frames=1&view=50

at the bottom of the page displayed is a report from a yankee commander regarding battle with your man the day after the morgantown affair...its about 3 pages long...reports concerning the second place you mention follow immediatly after........

http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-....edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ANU4519-0039.......

reports regarding both jones and imboden, 4-25-----4-27

that should get you started......gldhntr

truckinbutch · Feb 21, 2008

Thanks for the posts so far.They are a help as far as official reports go.
The actual logistics are what I wish to define.
A horde of raiders captured the county seat of the county I live in one day,flowed like a plague of locusts over a 16 by 8 mile stretch by the next day commandeering livestock and looting and captured the next town the following day.
What I glean from reports is a 1200 man cavalry raiding force with baggage train travelling fast in the early spring when forage is at a minimum.They stole an additional 1,000 cattle and 12 to 15 hundred horses on the raid.
Those critters had to eat and drink.So did the critters stealing them.
The places they took time to do this in that one day period is what I'm looking for.

truckinbutch · Feb 22, 2008

Beale,
My focus at present is relic and cache hunting along the central route of the raid between the two towns.
One of the rallying points and some of the original road are litteraly in my back door.

Andy_WV · Feb 26, 2008

sounds really interesting to me!

truckinbutch · Mar 3, 2008

I think it will be,Andy.
Got an 1886 county atlas two days ago.Also tax map.Homesites that I know of that don't show here mostly were abandoned before this time.
I've secured permission for you and I to hunt several hundred acres of this area and am waiting on an answer on more.
Catch you later by PM or phone.
Jim

truckinbutch · Mar 3, 2008

Beale,
I fail to believe that Confederate Engineers would have documented a fringe area of Civil War engagements better than the tax men in the county at the time.
You seem to have a penchant for sticking your oar in the water when you aren't even in the boat.
Now's your time to shine if you have such intimate knowledge of 16 miles/36 hours of a 700 mile plus several week Confederate cavalry raid. Morgantown to Fairmont WV 1863.