From Romney an excellent road runs south-east to Winchester, and another south-west by Moorefield and Franklin to Monterey, where it intersects the great road, constructed by one of Napoleon's engineers, that leads from Staunton in the Valley to parkersburg on the Ohio.
"Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War"
G. F. R. Henderson
After building the Steubenville Bridge, it became a necessity for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company to build bridges across the Ohio River at parkersburg and Wheeling, to prevent their great rival, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, from possessing a decided advantage.
"Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie"
Andrew Carnegie
He got to parkersburg, West Virginia, and was captured there with almost his entire force.
"Comic History of the United States"
Bill Nye