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Share This: Robert E. Lee in Uniform. Robert E. Lee had a reputation as one of the finest officers in the United States Army. Therefore, Abraham Lincoln offered Lee the command of the federal forces in April 1861. Nevertheless, Lee declined and tendered his resignation from the Army when Virginia seceded on April 17th. He argued that he could not fight against his people. Instead, he accepted a general’s commission for the newly formed Confederate Army. His first military battle of the Civil War was at Cheat Mountain, Virginia (now West Virginia) on September 11, 1861.  Although the Union...

Staff Writer MILL CREEK — A Mill Creek woman is behind bars after leading police officers on a high-speed pursuit Tuesday afternoon, after allegedly striking another woman with the vehicle she was driving. Stevie Drew Fox, 33, has been charged with fleeing in a vehicle with reckless indifference, a felony, and is currently incarcerated in the Tygart Valley Regional Jail. At approximately 1 p.m. Tuesday, Randolph County Sheriff Rob Elbon and Corporal E.B. Carr received a call saying a vehicle had struck a person at Fox’s Lumber Mill in Mill Creek and that the automobile was being operated ...