[2] These trenches lined with chestnut logs by the Confederate artillery during the American Civil War to defend the approaches to Romney on the Northwestern Turnpike and the South Branch Potomac River.

When Colonel Jacob M. Campbell (54th PVI) garrisoned Union forces at Romney, camps were set up at nearby at Mechanicsburg Gap.

The engineering style the Confederates used is an excellent example of a "rammed earth fortification" which protected transportation routes as well.

[1] Media related to Fort Mill Ridge Civil War Trenches (Romney, West Virginia) at Wikimedia Commons

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