District of the Kanawha, was a Union Army district during the American Civil War.
Commander Brig. Gen. Jacob D. Cox Oct. 11, 1861 – August 15, 1862 Eicher, John H., & Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, p. 830, Colonel Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn August 17, 1862 – October 1862Scott, Robert N., "Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies Volume XIX Part I, Government Print Office, 1887, p.1058, Major General Jacob D. Cox Oct 1862
Posts in District of the Kanawha
Post at Point Pleasant 1862 Buffalo Charleston Gauley Bridge Camp Tompkins (1861–1862), near Gauley Bridge Summersville Fayetteville Fort Toland, (1862–1863), later renamed Fort Scammon. Battery McMullan, near Fort Toland Raleigh Courthouse (a.k.a. Beckley)
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References National Archives, Guide to Federal Records; Records of United States Army Continental Commands, 1821–1920 (Record Group 393), 1817–1940 (bulk 1817–1920)