Pushed Through The Cove

The Battle of Cove Mountain was fought in Wythe County, Virginia on May 10^th 1864.

On May 10^th 1864 a Union cavalry brigade under Brigadier General William W Averell ran across a Confederate brigade commanded by Brigadier General William E Grumble Jones.  The Union forces attacked and were driven back.  Then Confederate Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan arrived, his cavalry counterattacked.  Morgan’s men pushed Averell’s troops through the Cove Mountain area of Wythe County, Virginia.

The Confederates held the battlefield, forcing Averell and his men back to West Virginia.