Droop Mountain hosts reenactment The sounds of rifles and
artillery fire will fill the air the weekend of October 13 and
14 during Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park's biennial Civil
War reenactment. On November 6, 1863, soldiers of the Union and
Confederate armies converged upon southern Pocahontas County's
Droop Mountain in a battle that would firmly place the newly
formed state of West Virginia in the Union column. Confederate
forces controlling the Greenbrier Valley under the command of
General John Echols squared off against Federal troops advancing
from the north under the command of General William Averell.
Following a skirmish at Mill Point, Confederate forces dug in at
the pass over Droop Mountain. Union artillery pounded the
Confederate position while another wing circled around the
mountain to surprise and overwhelm the Confederate's left flank.
After fierce fighting Echols' forces retreated from the mountain
and the Greenbrier Valley. "Droop Mountain was the last
significant battle in West Virg