Rich Mountain Battlefield

Here stood the Hart House, surrounded by fierce fighting during the Battle of Rich Mountain. Joseph Hart, grandson of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was an avid Union supporter who fled with his family when Confederates seized the mountain. Their two-story log home gave shelter during the battle and served as a hospital afterwards.

"The surgeons were amputating and dressing wounds... there are a great many limbs being taken off the wounded soldiers."

Union soldier at Hart House.

Marker is on Rich Mountain Road / Files Creek Road (County Route 37-8), on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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