Years after the war, Powell was awarded the Medal of Honor for his performance in the Sinking Creek raid.
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One rebel camp was located in Sinking Creek Valley, and the other was west of the valley near Williamsburg.
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Sinking Creek was so named because it is a subterranean river for some of its length, disappearing underground before surfacing again.
14.
William McDaniels'wife drowned within minutes of docking their flatboat in Breckinridge County, just south of the Falls of Sinking Creek.
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US Route 160 passes the east side of the town and the St . Louis San Francisco Railway passes the southwest side along Sinking Creek.
16.
Paxton sent the regiment's advance guard, led by Major Powell, down the mountain to scout the rebel camps in Sinking Creek Valley.
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As the Shawnee warriors came towards the flatboat, Mrs . McDaniels jumped into the Sinking Creek in an attempt to escape, but she drowned instead.
18.
The "'Sinking Creek Raid "'took place in 2nd West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry in 1863, after West Virginia became a state.
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The Confederates, who were the rebels in the American Civil War, had an army camp near the foot of a mountain in Sinking Creek Valley.
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The lower reaches along Craig Creek valley contain Silurian sandstone, formed between 408 and 438 million years ago and extending northwest to form Sinking Creek Mountain.
