AMICK FAMILY, FRIENDS & PLACES
Amick families homesteaded the Meadow River of western Virginia, Jacob Amick and brother John the miller Amick moved to Anglings Creek before 1821. More Amicks followed; John Nicholas Amick (Emick) followed to homestead at Cross Lanes. Amick sons married daughters of other mountaineer families, their sons were sparkin' for Amick daughters. They built wagon paths from the fields to the mills which dotted the Meadow River wilderness; Wm. Henry Amick had a mill (Red Rabbit Saloon) & blacksmith shop at Ravens Eye next to Stone House. They built schools and Liberty Methodist churches, deeply religious and spiritual the Amicks lived a free life in the mountain wilderness.
Citizens in the western Virginia counties were divided about the war, opposed to secession both from the Union and Virginia. Few mountaineers had contact with Richmond society or could afford slaves, most felt slavery was a sin, yet most were stubbornly anti-federalist and loved Mother Virginia. The independent mountaineers resisted the Federals during the Whiskey Rebellion, distrusted them for the forced removal of their friends the Cherokee, and had tarred and feathered campaigning yankee temperence Prohibitionists and Know-nothings from Ohio.
The county militias were divided in loyalties because the citizen-soldiers were divided. The new volunteer army companies that sprang up to replace them were extended family based, not geographical by county. During the Civil War the families couldn't avoid the fight as it came to our door steps in Nicholas, Greenbrier, Fayette, and Wirt counties.
"And there appeared to be no safety or security except in the army of one side or the other; men hesitated concerning
enlistment in either army. No able bodied man can occupy a neutral position. Those who take no position in the struggle are
suspect and shot at by both sides, and their only hope is to take up the gun and enlistments into both armies were certainly
and gradually being made in the months of October and November, 1861." (Wheeling Intelligencer)
A Family In The Fight.......
Amick Confederate Soldier List w/ 18 Biographies
Myron & Hiram Amick
Wilderness District- Amick, Halstead, Ramsey
Sewell Mountain District- Francis Tyree Stone House
Sewell Mtn- Red Rabbit Saloon
Sewell Mtn- Ravens Eye
Sewell Mtn- Lee's Camp
Mountain Cove District- William Tyree Halfway House
Mtn Cove - Nancy Hunt Letters: Tyree, Halstead, Ramsey
Mtn Cove - Lover's Leap
Tyree Soldier List
Biographies: Friends & Neighbors
Heroines of the War Between the States
(Bell, Hart, Smith, Tyree)
Legend of Nancy Hart
Diana Smith: Guerrilla Fighter
Lewisburg Turnpike
Lewisburg Academy
Nitre District No. 4
Pendleton County Militia- 1794
Emmick's Landing, Ky
NIOBRARA OUTLAWS
Conrad Amick & 15th So. Carolina