On April 20, 1863, Confederate generals William F. “Grumble” Jones and John D. Imboden began a raid from Virginia through present-day West Virginia against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, taking separate routes and later reporting that they marched 1,100 miles, fought several engagements, captured 700 Federals, seized about 1,200 horses and 4,000 cattle, and burned 4 turnpike bridges, more than 20 railroad bridges, 2 trains, and 150,000 barrels of oil, with most bridges soon repaired, slight Confederate losses, and both commands back in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley by May 26. On April 22, 1863, the raid’s third day, Imboden’s 3,300 soldiers rested at Camp Bartow after covering 18 miles in rain and mud over Allegheny Mountain on the Staunton and Parkersburg Turnpike. Earlier that day, on the mountain’s eastern side, the march had begun with martial glory and regimental flags flying, and seventeen-year-old John A. McNeill of Pocahontas County later remembered a fine spring day and the sound of fife and drum as the troops moved out. From Camp Bartow, the Confederates left on April 23 and rode northwest on the turnpike, crossing the freezing, slush-filled Greenbrier River about three miles west and then facing Cheat Mountain, which rises a thousand feet in fewer than five miles by road from the river; with between six and twenty inches of snow having fallen the night before, the exhausted men and horses reached Huttonsville after dark and prepared to attack Beverly the next day. Trenches a quarter mile southeast above Travelers Repose had been built for the Confederate camp before an engagement there on October 3, 1861, and many soldiers in the Jones-Imboden Raid had also fought in that battle. Revisiting the site on April 22, 1863, Corporal James E. Hall of Company H, 31st Virginia Infantry, wrote that the hard baked earth of the old camp had given way to luxurious vegetation, that dead silence had replaced the hum and stir of busy camp life, and that the graves of soldiers who fell in the battle were sodded over with green grass waving above them.