Fetterman, West Virginia
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| Coordinates: 39°20′58″N 80°2′17″W / 39.34944°N 80.03806°WCoordinates: 39°20′58″N 80°2′17″W / 39.34944°N 80.03806°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | West Virginia |
| County | Taylor |
| Elevation | 1,024 ft (312 m) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| GNIS ID | 1538943 |
Fetterman is an unincorporated community or populated place located in Taylor County, West Virginia. The elevation is 1,024 feet (312 m). Fetterman appears on the Grafton U.S. Geological Survey Map. Taylor County is in the Eastern time zone (UTC-5) and in postal zip code 26354. Fetterman was one of the early settlements in what became Taylor County, Virginia, (later West Virginia). It was located at the crossing of the Tygart Valley River by the Northwestern Turnpike.
Fetterman was founded in 1854. The community was named for a resident of Pittsburgh who owned the town site.
In the early days of the American Civil War, before Virginia had completed the process of secession from the Union, Virginia formed a state army and navy under the command of Virginia Major General Robert E. Lee. Lee sent Colonel George A. Porterfield to Grafton, Virginia to organize and recruit new members for the secessionist forces for the state, with a view toward joining the Confederacy, to hold northwestern Virginia for Virginia and ultimately the Confederacy. Porterfield also was ordered to hold and protect the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, but to destroy bridges to impede Union forces if it could not be held. Porterfield found that sympathies at Grafton were largely with the Union and the Grafton Guards under Captain George R. Latham were organized at Grafton. Porterfield moved to nearby Fetterman and began to gather a company from the area, the Letcher Guard or Letcher's Guard, and companies that supported the Confederacy from other locations in the region. Porterfield's men briefly held Grafton when the Grafton Guards went to Wheeling, Virginia to be mustered into the Union Army on May 25, 1861.
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