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...doah Street as lit 1 Ka ie Johns. Howeve1 .. , all the brick schools were d stro d in the Civil War, with the exception of the o 1e on Scl1oolhouse Lane in what is now Bolivar. Men ion o h la· te .. b1--ings to mind one more footnote from · he ne spape1· THE HARPER'S FERRY FREE....
...Hite, born and died in 1820. 14. Charles Jan1es Hite born on December 2, 1822. During the Civil War he disappeared and could not be traced. 15. John Briscoe Hite. 1825-1838. Colonel James Hite married, as his third wife, Lydia Peterson on May 12, 1831. They had Ol).e child, a son...
...th Scollay ( 18 31-1910) married in 185 3, Powhatan Robertson Page, who was killed in the Civil War. She moved to Clarksburg, W. Va., with her only child, Miss Scollay Page (18601939) who was active in founding the public library there. 80 Evidently the school room used by the Sc...
...blin College, Ireland, eventually practiced medicine in Middle way extending through the Civil War. 145 Elizabeth Ann Flood was a daughter of William Pinkard Flood who in 1793 married Nancy Peyton Washington of King George County. William P. Flood was Sheriff 1828-30. 146 Betsy ...
... little build ing houses not only contemporary literature, but a notable collec tion of Civil War books. On view also are original Porte Crayon sketches and some fine pieces of furniture, china and glass. 3. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 1959 Location: Just east of the Library on E. Wash...
... SHEPRD OLL GE 1959 Loe ti n: center of hepherd town. uring and immediately following the Civil War this building r d a a aunty ourt Hou and was deeded to the Corpora ti n of h ph rdstown by the Brooks family hepherd descen dant to be u d for chool purpose . Recently furni hed ...
... trade and later travelers arriving by the C & 0 Canal and the B & 0 Railroad. During the Civil War it was used by the troops stationed in the vicinity.
...1964 he a n me is located in Harper s Ferry next door to the • amp Hill hur h. It i a pre-Civil War house built by the United tate Go rnment a quarters for officers and their families who r tationed in Harper's Ferry and a igned to the U. S. Arsenal an rmory. It i now the home of...
...roud to report that the American Association for State and Local History has bestowed an Award of Merit upon Mr. A. D. Kena mond. These awards are voted by a committee of twelve members representing every area of the United States and Canada. The number given annually is relativ...
... and a Johnson boy, relat ed to our cousins but not to us, and he himself gay as a lark. Civil War Years o • how interesting my story of the next four years should be nd won t. ou an go not only to Jeb Stuart to be enthralled but ever o man}' outl1ern women have written stories ...
... the title applies to the State of West Virginia which came into being at the time of the Civil War. The story begins in 1861, the scene is the present Jefferson County and it is good reading for young people. Mrs. Oakley who has a summer home on the Potomac just east of Shepherd...
...r was Benjamin Wilson, who taught several small private schools near Middleway before the Civil War. His son, the Honorable William L. Wilson, maintained his home in Charles Town, even when in President Cleveland's Cabinet. At a much later date, in 1892 and 1893, Major E.H. MacDo...
...robably ,vas peering \vhen killed. He was a cousin and frequent visitor at Blakeley.) THE CIVIL WAR FAMILIE.S AT BLAKELEY AND CLAYMONT Richard e11tered the Co11federate Army as a private. Followi11g the death ir1 1861 of' his brotl1er, who was General Lee's aide-de-camp, Ge11eral...
.............................. . Damage to the Court House 3 3 3 4 12 13 and Jail during the Civil War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Tall Clocks Made by Jacob Craft. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Hazel field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
...on the nature and extent of damage suffered by the County Court House and Jail during the Civil War has been astonishly sparse. In June 1974 Miss Adams, supported by funds made available to the Society, set out to search the records pertaining to the Court House. The associated f...
...descriptions of the John Brown trial might provide a more complete description of the pre-war building that could then be compared with the present one. There were two new additions however to the restored building; a town clock and a ladies listening gallery. How to procure a To...
...e A drawing made at the time of the John Brown trial which includes the facade of the pre-Civil War Court House built in 1837. (From Historic Jefferson County by Dr. Millard Bushong) A relatively recent photograph of the Court House as restored in 1872. The addition at the back w...
...o v. 11 o. • ,n f Jolin IJr,1\·n. D,• . 2nt1, 1 f,1 13t .,.,1 I n, ng th,• Ja l • The pre-Civil War Jail. (Courtesy of Edwin Fitzpatrick) Evidently the Jail built in 1806 had been enlarged. opy f a po t card picturing tl1e Jail completed in 1873 with an erroneus as rtion that Joh...
...AGAZINE there appeared an article entitled 'Damage to the Court House and Jail during the Civil War." It was researched and written by Miss Sarah Adams, now Mrs. Denis Hector. Her conclusion that the jail was completely rebuilt was supported by excerpts from Charles Town's newspa...
...fferson County Museum. The possibility that one or both of these relics came from the pre-Civil War jail must be based on the supposition that they survived the vandalization of that structure and were reinstalled in the new building. An eyewitness description of the appearence o...
... building of fine homes both in its towns and in the country. The four decades before the Civil War may well be called the county's ''Age of Pericles." Of the approximately eighty major homes described in this Magazine's ''Historic Homes'' series, dating from 1735 to 1859, half w...
...gazine in a readable size. It i not dated. However it must have been written early in the Civil War ince Lieut. Col. A hby was killed near Harrisonburg on June 6, 18 62. The heading i : ''Petition to Lieut. Col. Ashby, Camp, near Du/fields Depot. '' We the under igned ladies of S...
...nce been a part of the Joist Hite property. Pearis was in court in Winchester, in various civil suits, when Jacob Hite and his brother, John, were sitting judges. Pearis was an Indian trader, spoke the language, was an Indian Agent for Virginia and Pennsylvania, held a commission...
... ''Poet of the Shenandoah Valley," his home was at Rion Hall near Charles Town. After the Civil War he practiced law in Charles Town, was elected to the State Legislature and was appointed judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.
...ginia refers to it as "Trinity Church of Norborne Parish." It was called that also in the Civil War diary of Rufus James Woolwine (printed in the Virginia Magazine for October, 1963), whose brigade stopped there on August 22, 1864. He wrote: ''Stopped our brigade at an old church...
...at river was al o the we tern boundary of a St. George's Parish. Since by the time of the Civil War legend'' had pushed the date of the ruins of the church back to the reign of Queen Ann (1702-14)as we saw in Woolwine's diary-the inventor of the name may have found his inspiratio...
...demise of the church. Legend says it was stripped off for melting into bullets during the Civil War-unfortunately for "legend," the roof was already missing in the 1845 etching. Hardesty says, "After the church was abandoned, young sportsmen tore the roof to pieces to obtain the ...
...'s Diary, in Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Woolwine, Rufus James. Exerpt from his Civil War diary (printed in "The Virginia Magazine," October, 1963. Fithian, Philip Vickers. Journal, 1775-1776: written on the Virginia-Pennsylvania Frontier and in the Army Around New York...
...Y UNION CHURCH CEMETERY EPI SCOPAL CHURCH CEMETERY THE OLD ENGLI SH CEMETERY SCOLLAY HALL CIVIL WAR HOSPITAL I I I , I,~' f Ji -~ ~ //, ~ = ? ? F ~~--- \1 .-..l--------------~----... ;•---------------------~-~. ______________ ._ ___ ......... _ .... _.-d._-.ir-.. ~ .... ~iiiiiiii...
... him from Hanover County, made up most of the congregation in the early years. During the Civil War, a bullet lodged above the vestry room door and is there today. In 1964, the Grace Church vestry purchased the Union Church from the Lutherans and with the interest and help of the...
... goes that one night, after he and his friends had had their fill of whiskey to keep them warm, James Weis, who was in charge of the pottery at Shepherdstown, fell asleep while firing the kiln. The fire in the mouth of the kiln got out of control and ignited the wooden fence whic...
...agnificent view of Shepherdstown may be had from beside the clock face (8). Following the Civil War, the county courthouse was moved from Charles Town to Shepherdstown. Rezin D. Shepherd made provisions before his death in 1865 to have wings (extensions) added to the town hall fo...
...ATIONS At present, Jefferson County has fewer incorporated municipalities than before the Civil War. Although a new municipality was added by the incorporation of Ranson in 1910, two charterships had disappeared by the end of the ante-bellum period, and have not reappeared. What ...
... with Henry D. Middlekauf, who fought with the militia at Harpers Ferry and served in the Civil War as a sergeant in Company G, Second Virginia Infantry, Stonewall Brigade. Middlekauf was a harness-maker by trade and had a shop immediately to the rear of the courthouse; he owned ...
...m the pot , here the ho tage , 11 tadt Wa hington and other were impri ned. But the great civil war did much by the interpo ition of more e ~citing and tragical cene , to blur the memory of John Brown' 36 hour .. at the erry''; and to uch a do not recognize the world-wide moral c...
... quite t'requent, visitor was "Colonel'' John Elijah Boyd. He married Virginia Stuart, in Civil War times, and managed the vast Stuart estates. He owned the ''Bend" alonside Elmwood-on-the Opequon and the Sulphur Spring Farm across the creek t'rom us among other farms. They live...
...t'or my music box of· course went down in the tlames. And so the years passed. Af'ter the Civil War, my tather had made an addition to his old ot'tice which had escaped the flames, and was still standing in the yard at Leeland. And that was the house ot' my parents declining year...
...aniel from 1892 to 1900, edited by Richard Micou Daniel .......................... 54 The Civil War Recollections of Cleon Moore, edited by Louis Santucci ................................. 89 Eye-Witness Account of the Hanging of John Brown, edited by Eleanor Lee Templeman .........
...y (New York: Vantage Press, 1987) is a desirable possession for any library of county and Civil War material. Mrs. Levin presented the spring 1988 Society program on Lee's illustrious Confederate career.
...ndence extracted on the fallowing pages is a • nearly complete collection of John Black's Civil War writings. Few of the fallowing letters are reprinted in their entirety. Black commented extensively on personal matters relating to his family and friends. Except for some represen...
...o the large eating room where we partook 49 Sutlers were private businessmen who followed Civil War armies, selling goods and foodstuffs normally not avajlable to private soldiers, although usually at an inflated price. 50The Soldier's Retreat served food and provided shelter for...
...; 1ou the rumor then existing in regard to the movement of an_i' army of the '' Rebs '' towards this place. The rumor proved to be a fact but not so large a force as was at first represented. There were about 1500 of them. Instead of coming direct here they turned to the right an...
... These cool nights are 83 Engle, 68-70; Festus D. Summers, The Baltimo re and Ohio in the Civil War (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1939), 174-175; Virgil Carrington Jones, Ranger Mosby (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1944), 216-220; OR, Series I, Volume 43, Part...
...p 12 Pa. V. Cavalry, Charlestown, Virginia My Dear Wife, Jan. 5 / 65 .... I am perfectly aware that you are laboring under great discontent ment in regard to me .... I would if it were in my power (for your sake alone) leave the service immediately, but dear Jennie it is altoget...
94 The Magazine of the out of service the 17th of next month and will then return to civil life. I wish I could go with him. Ohl Would not that be joyful news then to you and me. But here I am a veteran . ... lieutenant John H. Black Company G 12th Pa. Cav. Harpers Ferry, Virgini...
...a. Two years later, on March 4th, Abraham Lincoln became president and on April 12th, the Civil War began. It seems natural that President Lincoln's preference for Shakespeare would be reflected in the tastes of Americans. So it was not unnatural for this young man to pref er the...
...ions of Richard D. Rutherford dited b} ecil D. Eby Thi n1e111oir of harle town during the Civil Wai· year 'A,aS origir1all pt1bli .. h d c;,eriall i11 TJ1e JJi1·it of Je_ffe1·/;011 between pril J and June .... 4, 194 . Becau .. e few co pie.. are now extant (a11d e e11 the exi en...
...n it self wa saved. For Strother account ee Cecil D. Eby (ed. ), A Virginia Yankee in the Civil War (Chapel Hill, 1960), pp. 47-8.
...riter, this single document by Mary Bedinger Mitchell remains one of the best accounts of wartime by a civilian from that time. Her recollections were published in a long series of articles published by the Century Magazine in New York city which began in 1883 and survive in repu...
...iam P. Craighill a We, t Point graduate who re111ained lo al to tl1e nited tate during th Civil War and who enjoyed a d1 ti11gu1\h d 1nilita1A)' career in the Corp of Engineer5. The citation is Peter . Hc)u k, D111_,:, Ho1101·, C<JLt11tr),: Tl1e Dic10' and Biog, .. ap/1_}' of 11e...
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