Boxed 1st W. Virginia FOR LIBERTY Civil War service medal
Excellent condition medal with original ribbon and correct complete but seperated at seams box of issue.
Eldridge V. Shobe served as a Private in Battery E of the 1st West Virginia Light Artillery.
He died of disease while in service.  The units history follows the images.
$425.00

"Loyal West Virginia from 1861 to 1865"

BATTERY E First West Virginia Light Artillery

Battery E was organized by Capt. Alexander C. Moore, at Buckhannan,  West Virginia, in August, 1862; who was commissioned captain of the battery September 23, 1862. Captain Moore was one of West Virginia's
loyal sons who was among the first in the State to illustrate his loyalty to the government by the most practical methods then known; his early enlistment in the army, from the earlest moment of the Secession agitation in the South, Captain Moore was in line, defending the Constitution of the nation in eloquent pleadings upon the rostrum in the cities and towns throughout the counties of Harrison, Taylor, Lewis, Upshur, etc., and when recruits were called for, he enlisted company G, for the 3d West Virginia Infantry.
Having commanded this company for one year in its active operations in the State, Captain Moore was well prepared to take charge of this new field of usefulness as an officer of Artillery. He had little trouble, and spent little time in recruiting his company E, among his neighbors and friends who knew him best at Buckhannan and adjoining counties. And even before he had instilled the first lessons of the Artillery school into his company, and before they had been mustered into service he was called upon to defend the town against the advance of the Confederate General Jenkins. Immediately upon the completion of the enlistment of his company, he was ordered to Wheeling, and there was fully equipped. Then the battery was ordered to Clarksburg, and in turn to New Creek and Romney. At the latter place, the battery became, in 1863, a part of Campbell's Fourth Brigade, First Division, Eighth Army Corps, serving with this brigade in the South Branch
Valley, at Romney, Moorefield and vicinity, and with General Kelley in his campaign in the summer of 1863, to Cherry Run, Williamsport and Hedgesville on Lee's retreat from Gettysburg, returning with the brigade to the
South Branch Valley, serving in that locality until the summer of 1864.
Upon General Hunter's return from Lynchburg, the battery was ordered to join the Army of West Virginia, and accompanied it to the Shenandoah Valley, taking part in the engagements with the enemy at Snicker's Ferry,
Cedar Creek, Kernstown, Bunker Hill and Berryville. At this time the battery was attached to the Artillery Brigade of the Army of West Virginia; was then in the fall of 1864, ordered to Maryland Heights, where it remained until January 1865.