Battle of Philippi, West Virginia, American Civil War Size:XS: 40 x 30cm Gary Stevens and Glenn Hoddle

Gary Stevens and Glenn Hoddle at the team's Saltiro Hotel

18th October 1967

September 18

They were the only major project to be undertaken in London by the famous engineer Thomas Telford

Battle of Philippi, West Virginia, American Civil War Size:XS: 40 x 30cm Gary Stevens and Glenn HoddleBattle of Philippi, West Virginia, American Civil War, 3 June, 1861. Union troops under the command of Colonel Ebenezer Dumont, supported by Colonels Benjamin Franklin Kelley and Frederick W Lander, firing on the Confederates under Colonel George A Porterfield. Philippi was the first organised land battle of the war, although its significance is disputed, with some historians dismissing it as a skirmish mockingly named 'The Philippi Races'.