Jones burns the oil field at Burning Springs
May 1863, Burning Springs, West Virginia.
- Date
- May 1863
- Where
- Burning Springs, West Virginia
- What happened
- Burned
- Event
- 65 of 174
After taking West Union and Cairo, burning five more bridges and disabling a railroad tunnel, Jones's troops wrecked the oil field and equipment at Burning Springs and burned 150,000 barrels of oil. The whole raid destroyed sixteen bridges and took about 1,000 cattle and 1,200 horses.
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