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...re blanketed with tent hospitals and makeshift graveyard . Thomas Clark became one of the war ca ualties when he was wounded in his leg and brea t. The young soldier wa moved into the town of Shepherdstown, Virginia, just aero s the Potomac, nine miles from Harper s Ferry, and wa...
...ll lo~t botl1 her father and her son Daniel, one to old age ,111d tl1e other to the Ci il War. Both Daniel and hi brother John '-' 1·ot1ght 011 tl1e 011f'ederate . ide during the Civil War~ and Daniel wa killed ir1 ~1 ~kinnisl1 at Dan1 o. 4. Acco1-ding to hi headstone he fought \...
56 The Magazine of the . MARK REINHART PHOTO Author Susan Collins and Burwell Ware existence: it survives because of the dedication of two men-Confederate Lieutenant Colonel Roger Preston Chew whose name the flag bears, and Private, in civilian life Doctor Nimrod Anderson Ware. T...
...t. Because of this Jefferson County and the other counties in the Lower Valley during the war earned the sobriquet ''Breadbasket of the Confederacy.'' 15 Geographically, Jefferson County is ''protected'' by the Potomac River along its north border and by both the Shenandoah River...
...y had one sesquicentennial article and this year seventy-five percent of the articles are War related. We have a smaller magazine this year but, thanks to our authors, it is a quality publication: The first article is about a local boy killed south of here, the Union soldier that...
...the XIX Corps. The next day, Sheridan being in a poor defensive position retreated back towards Halltown. Colonel Norton P. Chipman, a staff officer from Washington, reported from Harper's Ferry on August 22 to the Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton: 8 1 53rd Infantry Regiment New...
...oric Jefferson County, esteemed historian Doctor Millard Kessler Bushong estimates that upwards of 1,600 men from Jefferson County fought for the Confederacy. 12 That number is remarkable in light of the fact that the census of 1860 recorded 5,299 white males of all ages in the c...
...as the respective armies had moved away General Sheridan that night having fall en back toward Halltown and Harpers Ferry, and General Early's army having removed. When my father left us in the woods on August 21st, and went back to the house he told me that when he reached the h...
...nverting the county of Jefferson from one which had accepted the fate of Virginia in this civil war, to a county which was under the dominion of the new state of West Virginia, a Union stronghold. But the conversion came at a high price. The words of Henrietta Bedinger Lee resona...
... when the United States was in need of healing and reconciliation after the trauma of the Civil War. About a decade after peace was restored, civic leaders throughout the United States embarked upon an ambitious celebration of the nation's 100th birthday in the fo1·1n of the Cent...
... In the final paragraph of his editorial, Beall eloquently expresses his view of the late war: Of the past four years-with their sad memories and bitter griefs-how shall we speak? We cannot approach the household from which some cherished idol has been tom and congratulate the li...
...oc1ety ,,,ho e mi ion became to educate the freed slaves. 1 Duri11g the la t }'ear of the War there \Va attached to the Chri tian Com111i sion of herida11, Arn1y a young man just graduated from [ artmouth allege. Hi duties ga\'e him considerable knowledge of the pre, 1aili11g con...
...s concern, Confederate forces abandoned Harper's Ferry. Recognizing Johnston's error and aware of Harper,s Ferry,s strategic importance> the Union Army took advantage of this void and almost immediately began to establish a garrison on the grounds of the former federal armory. Ov...
...vention prior to the second secession vote on April 17th, returned to Harper,s Ferry, and warned the village and armory workers of the impending takeover of the armory by Virginia volunteers. 19 During the Civil War, like the Lockwood House, the vacant superintendent's quarters w...
... the paymaster's clerk's house where they remained until April 19, 1861. 34 35 During the Civil War, the paymaster's clerk's house was put to unspecified use. The post-war assessment was, <<In bad condition, occupied for army purposes:' One of the first Freewill Baptist teachers>...
...of John Brown's ((secret six'' supporters and hagiographic author on John Brown after the War, F.B. Sanborn wrote about Savage taking various papers from Hunter's house. F.B. Sanborn wrote: My college acquaintance, Major James Savage of Boston, whose regi ment occupied Charlesto...
...h farms being near the Kansas border, and where we remained until the breaking out of the civil war, when Hal left for the army. I, remaining behind, spent the years of the war between Cass, Howard, and Johnson counties. Hal came back to his farm in 1866, having lost all of his s...
...ed license to practice law in the supreme court of California. 15 At the beginning of the Civil War he resigned as cashier of customs and returned to Missouri. Years later his cousin, Daniel Bedinger Lucas would write, ''When impelled by a strong sense of duty to abandon Californ...
...holly independent capacity as head of the quartermaster department until the close of the war. 27 After the war, Thornton A. Washington devoted his intelligence and abilities to the service of the government. The grand qualities he possessed were hidden from view by his great mod...
...int and the other one-quarter of a pint.' The landed Mr. Fitzhugh in 1687 directed Mr. Hayward to invest certain bills of exchange which stood to his credit in London in a pair of middle size silver candlesticks, a pair of snuffers, and a s nuff-dish, and half a dozen trencher sa...
... 3 The outh, early agrarian economy did not upport a large population. At the time of the Civil War, orthern tate had a combined populatio11 of 18 .5 million ver u the South 8 mill1on free and 4 million en laved. 4 A a re~ ult of a mailer population the outh r quired f er ilver m...
... The Rush cohort sited their remaining land rights about ten miles inland from Byberry at Warminster, in Bucks County. Hart's 485-acre warrant for a survey at Warminster was issued on July 5, 1684, and the survey was returned October 11, again adjoining that of John Rush. Althoug...
...ears of service of this family almost spanning the years of the Republic down through the Civil War. His great-grandfather, Richard Parker, (1729-1813), of Westmoreland County, was judge of the General Court from 1788 until his death. Richard Elliott Parker, (1783-1840), grandson...
...hirteen heavy artillery regiments, and one light artillery regiment. The African American Civil War Museum in Washington, DC contains the service records of 209,145 black Union soldiers and sailors. The USCT men fought in 449 battles including over 39 major battles. Twentyfive co...
... red dog. Albout one mile east of Charles T 1own was the Jim Locke tave1·n and during the Civil War period was kep 1t by three mai den ladi~s who were serenaded by the children o·f Charles To'wn with this jingle: Three ·old ladies may here be seen Dressed in yellow, pink and gre...
...pted t·o put them into effect he encountered a contem,ptuous attitude on the part of both civil ians an,d soldiers. Of this he complained bitterly to the Gov ernor. While engaged in the strengthening of Fort Loudoun, he hit upon the corre·ct ex·pedient. Perhaps, after all, Wash...
...rman system when we have also the empire ... when we are pre pared to ubstitute the half-civilization of the northwest for che culture of the Atlantic seaboard, we shall be prepared for co-edu ation ... Its advocates have twice been defeated in the Legislature ... If they do not...
.... C. Cord~I Born 1808, died 1870, a prominent physician in Jefferson Co11nty prior to the Civil War, ·painted in oils. One of his landscapes is ow11ed .by Miss L. E. Oraig.hill, of Cha,.rles Tow11. Portrait in oil, 19'' by 24'', of S 1 AfRJA\H MARGARE'l'l'A KE;Y.H:S, ipain·ted ab...
...grand daughter, Eleanor B. Osburn. D1·. Osburn practiced medicine in both l 1ines in the Civil War, at Rippon, a11d was succeeded by his son, Dr. Howard Osburn. Together they practiced medicine at Rippon for abou,t a hun dred years. A pastel, 18'' by 13'', of ELIZABETH B. OSBUR...
...Diocese of West Virginia. This substantial brick home comm.ands a m, agnificent vie\v westward. It was built immediately follo,ving the Civil War by the father of the present Bishop, who came here from his old home at Hopewell Mills. It is interesting here to note that wh.ile thi...
...ed 1n Prese11ce of Cornelit1s Wynkoop Hannah Wynkoop (Seal) Geo. Cu1111inghlam, Ze'bulo·n Warner, A Wag·ennen, Jr. Absence of Early 1 Records Concer1wag the V all.ey Pioneers Far a\'ay from the sea where ships ,carried letters back a11d fortl1 to their native land these early ,co...
...11ce be arrested by any of~ le r oldi , r c·tiz n ,vithou he formality of a Complaint, or WarJ·a11 11cl ' t 011ce be subjected to thorough search, and shall \' l1i or h r as l oroughly investigated; and be dealt with as cir t ms nc s on p1·oof shall require. Arti le XLV PER O TO...
... captain in the Vi1'ginia ntilitia in 1757, leaving Jefferson for the French and In dian wars, was a member of the first court for the county of Ohio, sitting· at Black's Cabin in West Liberty, be lieved to be the first civil cou1"t held in the Ohio valley. He was one of the fi...
...hund1 .. ed and two yea1--s of life, less a short period of inter1 .. uption du1--ing the Civil War, is the proud record of this virile publication. The Independent, at Shep herdstown, has been published for more than forty-five yea1 .. s, and the Jeffe1·son Republican, youngest...
10 Magazine of the back. towards Halltown. The Confederates followed the re treating Federals to Welch's Spring some two miles to the west of Charles Town. Union losses were reported at 260 killed and wounded. Confeaerate losses were not disclosed. The Union Arniy, Cyclopedia of...
...25 000 each) -ere used. Many of the former are to be found in Jefferson County. Du ing he Civil War years, the post offices overrun b i her • d were imrnedia tely taken possession of by h side. Ch ·I s Town and other Jefferson County offices hang d hands man times. However there ...
... parents and wives telling them of the death of their son or husband. At the close of the war Governor Francis H. Pierpont -chief of the Restored Governrnen t of Virginia--called upon hirn to reorganize the courts and civil govern:ment in his circuit. Judge Parker carefully noted...
... in nt men of all pa1~ties and by his winning ways in gratiated himself with all classes civil and :military. He became intimate with the officers of the Michigan, who invi ed hi111 to visit them, and showed him over the ship and allowed him to g·o onto the island and converse f...
...nd area of the United States; nor overlooking the incornparable part it played during the Civil War in transporting men and supplies; nor passing over the fact that the first locomotive to be used in this county was the Thomas Jefferson, one pauses again and reflects upon that fi...
...is, who held it ony a few yea.1·s before selling to Robert Vinson Shirley. Du1 .. ing the Civil Wai .. General Philip Sheridan used the house as his headquarters for several days, but the only damage done by the Union soldie1·s was when they tor·e down the log barn. The present b...
... the present house of log and brick about 1835. Robert Wil liam Baylor, a Colonel in the Civil War, died in 1883, leav ing all he possed to his wife. After her death his proper ty was to be divided between Julia Shirley, George Bay101~, Tilden G. Baylor, Henry B. Baylor, Charl...
... S. Watson became a member of the ''Clat'ke Caval1.. and se1·ved gallantly throughout the Civil War. In 1866 he ma1 .. 1 .. ied Lau1·a Virginia LaMar but did not liv on his inhe1·ited property till the last yea1·s of his mothe1· s life when she was too old and infirm to live alon...
...h 4, 1859, it was not until December, when Congress convened, that he took his seat. When Civil War broke he elected to go with the South. He was elected a member of the Virginia Assembly, CSA, to represent Jefferson County, but before he took his seat he was named a member of th...
............... 18 The Hammond Antique Quilt .......................................... 19 A Civil War Episode ............................................................ 20 Memorial Plaques in Shepherdstown .. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 21 Charlestown and Sh...
...istorical shrines and associations in Virginia, including the Mount Vernon Association. A CIVIL WAR EPISODE (From the 1925 autobiography of Mary Catherine Kearney Mc Quilkin-Kregloe, 1843-1929, daughter of Josiah Thornburg Kearney and granddaughter of Sarah Shephe1 .. d Thornbur...
.... Bagby (Dr. George W. Bagby, 1828-1883, was well known in Virginia for decades after the Civil War as an editor, pamphleteer and lecturer. A lecture trip to Jefferson County during the spring of 1881 made possible the fallowing description to the ''Richmond State." The inclusion...
...nt attorney, am·bassador to England, and presidential candidate. A Virginia Yankee in the Civil War, the Diaries of David Hunter Strother. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1961. By Cecil D. E.by, Jr. This is his third book relating to David Hunter Strother.
...lic inspection, it would off er an opportunity to portray the don1estic conditions of the Civil War period, in the key residence of a vital area. Footnotes Asse1nbled froni Preceding Pages 1. Mrs. Godfrey R. Thorn, 4835 Sedgewick Street, Washington, D. C., Descendant.
... about 15 years, long enough to sta:mp their nanie on the dwelling, since, even after the Civil War, it was ref erred to as ''The Old Shenton House''. It was Bernard O'Daughtery to whom the Goods sold it on June 9, 1813. C. S. Musser in Two Hundred Years of
...ia. J. B. Lippincott Co. Philadelphia. 1857. Miller, Francis. Photographic History of the Civil War. New York. 1911.
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