Civil War  |  Historic Site

Lewisburg National Register Historic District/Greenbrier County Visitor Center

West Virginia

200 West Washington Street
Lewisburg, WV 24901
United States

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Lewisburg was the site of a Civil War battle on May 23, 1862, when Union forces attempted to sever railroad communications between Virginia and Tennessee. There is a Confederate cemetery in town, a library used as a hospital with Confederate graffiti on the walls, a church with a cannonball hole, another church that served as a Confederate morgue, and a monument to the Confederate dead.