Several men are standing outside the Monongalia County Courthouse which is decorated with American Flags. The Courthouse is located on High Street between Pleasant and Walnut Streets in Morgantown, West Virginia. Photo appeared in the Centennial Edition of the Dominion News.
Four men are standing in front of Dawson's News Stand in Morgantown, West Virginia. There are: (right) Grover 'Coopeye' Rice, H. Ott Garrison 'Hog' (middle), ? Fox 'Foxy' (left) and Fenton Rice (rear) High and Fayette Streets. Centennial edition of Morgantown Post.
Inscription the back of the photograph: "A group portrait of William H. Stafford, Jonah Bayles, and George W. Wilson. 'William H. Stafford: 1844-1938, EOG, Enlisted April 12, 1864 and discharged June 12, 1865, Co. B 14th West Virginia Infantry; George W. Wilson: 1841-1930, EOG Centennial, enlisted August 1861 and discharged April 6, 1865. Co. A 20th Reg. Va Vol Cav. Rank-Sgt; Jonah Bayles (center,[Private in the 7th West Virginia Infantry]: his family was from the Point Marion/Taylortown vicinity near the Pennsylvania/West Virginia border [Jonah Bayles was from Ices Ferry, Monongalia County, W. Va.]. He was married to Letitia Nabors and had five children, one of whom was a civil engineer who worked on the Trans-Andean Railroad in South America and later became a water commissioner in Morgantown (George Harmon Bayles).'