Engagement, Camp Allegheny, Allegheny Mountain, Buffalo Mountain was a Civil War engagement fought in West Virginia, 1861.
On December 13, 1861, Confederate and Union forces clashed near the mountainous edge of Pocahontas County, Virginia, roughly three miles from the border with Highland County, in an engagement that became known as the Battle of Camp Allegheny, or alternatively the Battle of Allegheny Mountain. This clash formed part of the broader Operations in Western Virginia Campaign during the American Civil War.
Though fought at only the brigade level and small in scale, the fight ended with Union forces pulling back, giving the Confederates a technical victory. Even so, historians have generally viewed the outcome as militarily inconclusive. What made the engagement matter was not the fighting itself but its lasting territorial consequences: the result kept Highland County under Confederate control and, in doing so, kept it out of the process that would later create the state of West Virginia. In this way, the battle helped shape the eventual boundary line separating Virginia from West Virginia.
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