The Cloyd Farm much as how it
stood during the Battle. The slaves
quarters located in the back served
as a field hospital. Blood from this
action remains on the wooden floors
                         

Position of the 3rd and 4th PA Reserves prior to the attack. Notice the wooded area on the right. This position was that of the 11th West Virginia Infantry which attacked down the Dublin Road which can be seen in the middle of the pictureabove the roof of the house and below th non wooded bluff where Bryan's battery was situated. This position was just east of the road and was facing the 60yh Virginia CSA located on the wooded bluffs behind the telephone pole in the foreground.  [see 4th Casualty Report]   [Reserves Narration including this battle]

This was the position of the 60th Virginia and Hoge's cannon, Notice the road in the meadow foreground. This was the road pictured in the previous pictures on the union side. Cloyd Mountain is in the background. To the left is the clearing where the 45th Virginia fought. The bluffs in the center of the picture are where White's 2nd Brigade attacked


Pieced together, this is the position Hayes' men attacked and eventually overran the CSA resistance. Notice the steep wooded approach that afforded Hayes'men to rest before their final surge.

                       
The only known soldier still
buried on the battlefield. He
was Captain Christopher Cleburne
the brother of  Maj. General
Pat Cleburne  of CSA fame.
Fighting with the Kentucky troops, Cleburne fell mortally wounded leading a counter charge.

11th West Virginia Casualties at the New River Campaign, Cloyd's Mountain and New River Bridge:

Cloyd's Mountain Casualties
11th West Virginia Infantry
May 9, 1864

Rank	Name	Company	Description
Captain	Dixon R. King	I	Concussion from cannon blast
Private	Alfred E. S. Dewees	K	Gunshot wound ring finger left hand. Lost part of finger.
Private	Theodore K. Mahon	K	Wounded slightly.
Private	Jonathon L. McLaughlin	K	Gunshot wound right hip - severe - Captured - POW
Corporal	David A. Petty	B	Severe Gunshot wound to the right thigh.
Private	Albert C. Richards	C	Wounded in thigh
Private	George M. Prunty	D	KIA - 1st soldier to die in battle for the 11th.

 

RANK	KIA	WIA	POW
1 Officer		1
6 enlisted B,C,D,I,K	1	5	1

         

New River Campaign
April 23 - May 8, 1864

Rank	Name	Company	Date	Description
Private	Moses Parsons	K	April 24, 1864	Aboard Steamship from Parkersburg, fell off, and drowned near Point Pleasant, WV enroute to Camp Piatt for the New River Campaign

  

Enlisted/Officer	Non-Combat Death
1 enlisted Company K	1

             
Battle of New River Bridge
May 10, 1864

Rank	Name	Company	Date	Description
Sergeant	Robert H. Rogers	C	May 10, 1864	Wounded in Action at the Battle of New River Bridge

Enlisted/Officer	WIA
Enlisted Company C	1

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