I read today not too many battles in WV. My sister lived outside Oceana on property that was once The Smith Plantation. In operation all during the war with slaves. South West Va. I understand they built, a new Oceana HS on the flat land there. My sister’s house was up the hill a little where the slave quarters used to be. My sister sold for a big gain after they announced the school. Any way. learning much today.
Well... of 384 Civil War battles larger than minor skirmishes, 15 were fought in West Virginia, half of those in 1861 and five of them classified as "major".
Some of the more interesting in 1861 involved victories of Union General George McClellan, as a result of which Lincoln made him Commander in Washington, and the defeat of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, as a result of which Jefferson Davis reassigned Lee to guard the coast of North Carolina.