The Hickory-picket Tussle at Little Kanawha: A Tiny Reeling in West Virginia

The Union boys, led by Captain William Mattingly, holed up in a rustic log cabin, with foxholes deeper than a well-worn country road. Across the way, we got the Confederates, under William Lowther Jackson - cousin to that - Stonewall Jackson fella - aiming to tie up the Union's telegraph lines. They waged a fight that spanned 12 hours, with Captain Simpson, the Union commander, threatening to carry on until 'Hell freezes over. Now, the Union didn't lose a single solitary man, but ol' Captain Mattingly picked up a keepsake wound on the leg, and one Moses Cunningham, a local boy supporting the Confederates, took a bullet.

The Confederates, on the other side, lost 8 lads and as many wounded. The Battle of Bulltown was the last big Confederate push in West Virginia, but it didn't tip the scales toward tugging the Union's communication lines. Nowadays, you can still catch a peek of the leftover fort and the Little Kanawha River, which played a vital part in that little dance.

Sources: Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata