In January 1862, Camp Northwest at Huntersville, three miles northwest of here, became Confederate Colonel William L. Jackson’s headquarters and a supply depot for the outposts under his command along the Huntersville line, which stretched from the northern end of Pocahontas County to the southern end. On August 23, 1863, Union General William W. Averell’s forces captured and burned the camp before marching toward Lewisburg and later being defeated at the Battle of Dry Creek at White Sulphur Springs. In his official report, Averell wrote that Camp Northwest was burned and destroyed along with commissary buildings and stores, blacksmith shops, several wagons, a number of Enfield rifles, gun equipments, and quantities of wheat and flour at a nearby mill, while many canteens, stretchers, and hospital supplies were taken. Jackson soon reoccupied the area and remained there until he was ordered to the Shenandoah Valley in 1864. Early in June 1865, one of the last encounters between armed Federal and Confederate forces took place a short distance southeast of here when a Federal cavalry detachment from Clarksburg entered Pocahontas County to recover Federal property, ensure no Confederate forces remained active, and parole those who surrendered; after a brief clash with several Confederate cavalrymen formerly of Jackson’s command, who had learned of General Robert E. Lee’s surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia and all other forces under his command, the Confederates abandoned their horses and escaped into the hillsides and dense woods.