Corrick's Ford

After the Confederate defeat in the Tygarts Valley early in 1861, Gen. R.S. Garnett, the Southern leader, withdrew. Here he was overtaken by Federals under his West Point classmate, Gen. T.A. Morris, his army defeated and himself mortally wounded.

Marker is ...

Parsons / Corrick's Ford

(South Side):

John Crouch, pioneer settler, established "tomahawk rights" here in 1766, but the town was not incorporated until 1893. Here Shavers Fork and Blackwater unite to form the Cheat River. Hu Maxwell, the historian, lived near.

(North Side):

After the battles of ...

Corrick's Ford Battle

1861 - 1865

Corrick's Ford

Battle

engagement between

Federal troops under

Gen. T.A. Morris

and

Confederate troops under

Gen. R.S. Garnett,

one mile south,

July 13, 1861.

Garnett, mortally wounded

in this action, was the first

general to fall during the war.

Marker is at the intersection of 1st Street (U.S. 219) and Walnut ...