US Civil War Fiction

Charles Leib was a fascinating historical figure in Clarksburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) during the early days of the Civil War.

Leib crossed paths with some of the most remarkable individuals in the antebellum and Civil War periods. He’s a schoolboy chum of George McClellan, a school trained doctor, an unwitting participant in the “Bleeding Kansas” affair, a journalist and newspaper editor, a political hack and a friend of Abraham Lincoln; the first to uncover a planned assassination attempt against President-elect Lincoln in Baltimore.

Charles Leib was commissioned as a Captain in the Quartermaster Corps at the beginning of the Civil War and posted to a critical, yet obscure, post in western Virginia where he established a major logistical operations center to support Generals McClellan and Rosecrans in the early days of the Civil War.

Captain Leib would quickly face the ire of local businessmen and members of the “First Families of Virginia”, the local elite, as he developed the Quartermaster Operations. He would quickly become the “Most Hated Man in Clarksburg!”