Qualla: Battle of Bulltown https://qualla.com/battle-of-bulltown en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Bulltown https://qualla.com/battle-of-bulltown Battle of Bulltown: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-bulltown/ Captain Simpson's answer to the surrender demand became the most-quoted line of West Virginia's Civil War. Asked to give up the makeshift fort of log barricades and shallow trenches above the Little Kanawha crossing at Bulltown, he told the Confederate flag bearer that he would fight until Hell froze over - and if he had to retreat, he would retreat on the ice. The defiance worked. Twelve hours of skirmishing on October 13, 1863, did not dislodge his garrison. Stonewall Jackson's second cousin, leading 800 men against him, eventually withdrew toward the Greenbrier Valley, and the last significant Confederate offensive in West Virginia ended in a frustrated retreat.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/s/battle-of-bulltown-wp/dnys-battle-of-bulltown-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Bulltown: The Crossing That Mattered https://qualla.com/battle-of-bulltown/ Bulltown sat on a hilltop above an important crossing of the Little Kanawha River, a chokepoint on the road between the Greenbrier Valley to the east and the Kanawha Valley to the west. In the autumn of 1863, that road was a Union communications artery. Whoever held Bulltown coul...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/s/battle-of-bulltown-wp/dnys-battle-of-bulltown-jackson-approaches.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Bulltown: Twelve Hours, Two Truces https://qualla.com/battle-of-bulltown/ What followed was a long, indecisive day. The Confederates worked their way up the hillside and fired into the fort; the Union defenders fired back from behind their log barricades. Neither side could break through. Twice during the afternoon Jackson sent a flag of truce up to th...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/s/battle-of-bulltown-wp/dnys-battle-of-bulltown-a-civilian-casualty.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Bulltown: The Last Lunge East https://qualla.com/battle-of-bulltown/ Bulltown turned out to be more important in retrospect than it felt at the time. It was the last significant Confederate offensive in the new state of West Virginia, admitted to the Union four months earlier. After this, the Confederate war effort west of the Alleghenies dwindled...

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