Camp Success is named for the civil war confederate army encampment that was located near the grounds from 1862 to 1865. Confederate forces, some garrisoned at this site, successfully guarded the narrows of the New River from incursion by the union army forces until early 1865. However, this camp won its name after a major skirmish that occurred near the site on May 10, 1862 when confederate forces under Brig. General Henry Heth that held off the retreating union forces under Lt. Col. Rutherford B. Hayes (later became president of the United States). Heth had prevented Hayes' troops from passing through the Town of Narrows on their retreat to Princeton from the "Battle Of Giles Court House" in nearby Pearisburg.
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