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During the American Civil War, Confederate soldiers under the command of General Robert E. Lee again mined the cave for nitre. The cave today has the nation's largest collection of Civil War-era saltpeter hoppers.
View a National Landmark of Historic Places and a National Natural Landmark with the West Virginia Civil War Tours. Learn about the life of the confederate soldier and the birth of this amazing underground system of passages and rooms based on biblical fact, principles, and science.
To add to its interest, Organ Cave was a saltpeter mine used during Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Civil War for production of gunpowder. Confederates used it as a mine and factory that may have furnished as much as 90% of Confederate gunpowder.
The civil war history that took place here is remarkable and the hoppers used by the Confederate army are still as they were left when the war ended. Confederate troops secretly lived inside the cave for three years while Union troops camped above them at a close distance, completely unaware that the opposing Confederate troops were mining ...
9 Μαΐ 2024 · European settlers first ventured into the region in the late 18th century, with legends of outlaws and Confederate soldiers seeking refuge within the cave's labyrinthine passages during the Civil War.
28 Ιαν 2020 · Schoolhouse Cave in Pendleton County, West Virginia is the only cave known to have been mined for saltpeter by Unionists during the Civil War. Following the war, saltpeter mining was discontinued as new technologies rendered the mines obsolete.
21 Νοε 2017 · Organ Cave was mined for saltpeter during the early 1800s and the American Civil War. While accounts of the cave date back to the late 1700s, modern exploration did not begin until 1948. Much of the early exploration of the Organ Cave System was conducted by members of the Charleston Grotto of the National Speleological Society (NSS) and the ...
