District of the Kanawha

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 ^[1]
• Colonel Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn August 17, 1862 – October 1862^[2]
• Major General Jacob D. Cox Oct 1862

Posts in District of the Kanawha

Union posts were located near the Kanawha River Valley because supplies could be brought from the Ohio River up the Kanawha River to Charleston using small steamboats.

• 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)