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Colonial Williamsburg is getting into the Civil War Sesqui…

October 11, 2011 by

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Browsing Colonial Williamsburg’s site (as I’ve mentioned before, I have a semi-dormant passion for the history of Colonial Virginia, and New England…hence the reason for me digging around CW’s site), I came across a few items of interest that reflect that they are getting into the Sesqui as well. First, we have this EFT (Electronic […]

149 years ago today, but, what about a snapshot of 150 years ago today? Life one year before THE battle.

September 17, 2011 by

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I encourage those who are able, to take advantage of all that is going on at Antietam National Battlefield, this weekend. Regretfully, I won’t be able to make it… though I most certainly plan on being there this time next year (and might even take a little time to hop across the Potomac next weekend, […]

Maryland’s Southern Unionists continue to fill the ranks

August 28, 2011 by

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THE HOME BRIGADE.— The work organizing the Regiments, ordered to be raised by the Secretary of War as a Home Brigade in Western Maryland, is rapidly progressing. In Allegany county one regiment has been nearly completed, nine of the ten companies having been raised, with the assurance that the tenth one will be speedily forthcoming. In […]

An Iowa lieutenant’s love interest… in Union blue

August 20, 2011 by

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Always interested in expanding my knowledge of the world around my Washington County, Maryland ancestors, (as many regular blog readers here know) whenever possible, I spend a fair amount of time perusing the Hagerstown Herald of Freedom and Torch Light. While I have no knowledge of my ancestor’s opinions on these stories, I still find […]

Looking for those who are no longer there…

August 14, 2011 by

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This past Thursday, I drove through Clear Spring, Maryland. To be honest, it was part of a rather out-of-the-way detour that I made (by choice) en route to another location. Certainly, it’s not like I haven’t been there before… but, I just wanted to visit again… and, I’m sure it won’t be the last time […]

“Do not expect to enter my house, if you disobey my orders.”

August 7, 2011 by

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It’s just one example of what likely occurred in many a Virginia household, in 1861, and even later. Yet, popular contemporary “memory” of Virginia, at war on the side of the Southern Confederacy, seems to have no, or very little “recollection” of such instances. The following comes to us via the August 7, 1861 issue […]

Newspaper ads as peaceful moments in an otherwise chaotic world

July 27, 2011 by

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I spend a good deal of time sifting through newspapers in search of articles that uniquely describe events of the war, or offer perspectives not found elsewhere. Even so, as I scroll through the microfilm, I don’t bypass the advertisements. There seems to be a peculiar, perhaps ironic, peace in most of the ads. It’s […]

The call for a (Western) Maryland Home Brigade

July 23, 2011 by

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A Measure of Self Defense. The following letter from Hon. SIMON CAMERON, Secretary of War, to Ex Governor THOMAS, our Representative in Congress, explains itself:— WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, July 19th, 1861. Hon. Francis Thomas:— You are hereby authorized to provide for the organization of four regiments of the loyal citizens, residents on both sides of the Potomac river, […]

Maryland Unionists address the matter of Federal “interference”

July 23, 2011 by

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“Old Maryland’s Wrongs” This is a favorite expression with the rebels of the South, who tried but failed to seduce our State from her loyalty to the Union. The other day, on the occasion of the presentation of a piece of secession bunting to the Baltimore Regiment in the rebel army at Richmond, Mr. JEFFERSON DAVIS, who […]

Their run to the guns…

July 22, 2011 by

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Before I left Manassas yesterday, I had to do just one more thing. Yes, I was hot and miserable at the time, but, it didn’t matter, I had to do it. This is the first place that I’ve visited this year, on the 150th anniversary of an event in which my people were present, 150 […]

“I go in search of brother”

July 22, 2011 by

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22nd. I go in search of brother Wm* who had been badly wounded; find him near the battlefield, and take him with other to the Junction. I then go in search of some other wounded, and find a few. Start to F. Royal at midnight with them. I am very wet from being in the […]

At the First Manassas/Bull Run Sesquicentennial event, today

July 21, 2011 by

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I was there… got to Manassas early… The pretty cool looking Virginia 150 Historymobile… Crowd was relatively light, but then… it was hot, and on a workday. Did I say it was hot?! Of course, the Stonewall on steroids statue… A view toward the speakers’ platform from the rear hooves of Stonewall’s mount. Also had […]

Reveille by picket fire, and a cannon…

July 21, 2011 by

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This morning we were awakened by the firing of our pickets. After eating a hearty breakfast and filling our haversacks with provisions, we were again on the march. The artillery of the enemy could be distinctly heard on our right. After marching and counter marching for sometime, we were stationed within a-half mile of the […]

The run to the guns…

July 20, 2011 by

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For those of you are going… see you in the morning, on the Plains of Manassas…

Casler, on the eve of battle…

July 20, 2011 by

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The next day, the 20th of July, we marched about four miles down Bull Run, to where General Beauregard had engaged the enemy on the 18th, and repulsed their advance. There we joined the brigade. We lay on our arms all night. We tore all the feathers out of our hats, because we heard the […]

“I bought myself”… Henry Roy’s Civil War

July 19, 2011 by

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First, we have USCT soldiers from the Shenandoah Valley (and, yes, there are more stories to come about those men). Now, in yet another effort to add dimension to the Civil War in the Shenandoah Valley, I present Henry Roy… Roy was a resident of Warren County, Virginia, in the northeast central Shenandoah Valley. A […]

Sesquicentennial in the Shenandoah Valley… what you probably won’t hear about

July 2, 2011 by

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It’s something that’s been totally overshadowed by “memory” of Stonewall Jackson, Turner Ashby, the Stonewall Brigade, and even Sheridan’s “Burning”… and something that will likely remain overshadowed during the Sesquicentennial here, in the Shenandoah Valley. It’s the story of the Valley’s free black and slave population… the Unionists civilians (slave and free), and those who […]

Prelude to Manassas: The “Affair at Falling Waters”

July 2, 2011 by

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There’s much talk today about Gettysburg, and I’m sure I’ll have a lot to say about that in two years, but… 150 years ago on this day (morning), while probing toward the Potomac River, just south of Williamsport, Maryland, the 5th Virginia Infantry, along with the 1st Rockbridge Artillery… and even a portion of the […]

From June 4, 1861, an Ohio paper opines… Virginia Playing the Fool (?)

June 4, 2011 by

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Courtesy of the Cleveland (Ohio) Herald, we have this small clip from June 4, 1861 (via Dickinson College’s House Divided blog). The title (of the original document) reads, “Virginia Playing the Foot”, but I feel that this was an error in printing, and that they (the Herald) meant “Virginia Playing the Fool”. Anyway, I find […]

Luray’s witness tree

June 3, 2011 by

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Since we’re in mourning for the Jackson Prayer Oak (see here, and here… and yes, I’m a tree hugger of sorts… especially when it comes to witness trees), I figured it was a perfect time to talk about another witness tree, but further down the Valley, in Page County. While this tree didn’t witness any […]

“This guy’s been very controversial from time to time”

May 31, 2011 by

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From the Charleston  (West Virginia) Gazette: CHARLESTON, W.Va. — In its first meeting since half of its citizen members resigned in protest, the West Virginia Sesquicentennial Commission Tuesday awarded four community program grants totaling $11,160 — but tabled one funding request because of the event’s controversial keynote speaker. The Guyandotte Civil War Days festival committee […]

Brethren Elder John Kline and the referendum on secession

May 23, 2011 by

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I’ve focused on Page and Loudoun counties, while Ron Baumgarten, over at “All Not So Quiet on the Potomac” focused on Fairfax, and Encyclopedia Virginia gave some attention to Augusta and Berkeley counties. The Library of Virginia, in its blog, Union or Secession, also covered the referendum, but on a broader scale. All-in-all, it’s been […]

Virginia Unionist Goodhart continues: more on the referendum on secession

May 23, 2011 by

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Picking up from yesterday’s post on the referendum, and, as promised in a post a few weeks back, more about the referendum on secession in Virginia from Briscoe Goodhart… … and as by these troops the United States Government property at Harper’s Ferry had been seized and the immense navy yard at Norfolk had been […]

Hmmm… about that referendum on secession in Virginia

May 22, 2011 by

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Tomorrow marks the day, 150 years ago, when Virginians were given the chance to vote on secession… although, really, it didn’t mean a great deal considering the mobilization that had taken place, and… let’s not forget the Commonwealth’s offer for Richmond to be the capital of the Confederacy… before the referendum. Really, it was a […]

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