The Civil War in Fayette County, West Virginia

Paperback Edition 224 pages; Published by Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., Charleston WV. Taken from back cover; War in Western Virginia. In mountain warfare the learning of the books and strategists is of little use. In a country where it is impossible to find enough level land to muster a company of militia, there is very little scope for ingeniously studied military evolutions are consummately arranged plans of campaign on paper. It is impossible for the books to embrace the thousand topographical features of a wild region, where all nature seems drunk in the heels and mountains and high frolic. The only rule of warfare in such a region is to throw away all rule. The policy there is to fight and March, to march and fight. Ingenious ink and paper plans of campaign are about as useless in the region about the Big Sewell Mountain as a McCormick's reaper in a mountain wheat "field."