John Yates Beall, the “Mosby of the Chesapeake,” launched a daring scheme to rescue Confederate POWs on Lake Erie. In the years before the Civil War, what is now West Virginia was torn by inner strife. The issues of slavery and states’ rights bitterly divided its citizens. In October 1859, the tinderbox was ignited when …
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