Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park

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Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park
HC 64
Hillsboro, WV 24946
304-653-4254
https://wvstateparks.com/park/droop-mountain-battlefield-state-park/
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The site of West Virginia’s last significant Civil War battle. On November 6, 1863, the federal army of Brigadier General William W. Averell, in his second attempt to disrupt the Virginia-Tennessee Railroad at Salem, Virginia, faced again the Confederate troops of Brigadier General John Echols.