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... Privately owned, Clippings and Photographs of John H. Black. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Civil War Library and Museum. Miscellaneous materials, Twelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Manuscript Division. Congdon Papers. Tall...
...onfederacy, the Commonwealth of Virginia suffered the largest number of deaths during The War. The State of New York recorded the most Union deaths. 23 Battlefield death did not escape Jefferson County. To provide some perspective, not long ago I did a very unscientific review of...
18 The Magazine of the In the Civil War, Mr. Blackbum fought with the Clarke Cavalry and was promoted to a lieutenancy in the Ordnance Department. He did succeed in establishing a boys' school in Alexandria and it was here that The Chess Club held its Christmas season contests. I...
...etreating back down the Valley. From August 16 through August 18 Sheridan maneuvered northward, constantly skirmishing with Early's cavalry. August 19 and 20 were days of comparative rest for both sides as Sheridan positioned hi,s forces to cover the Charlestown-Berryville road, ...
...e the same. Not only would the economic and social effect be considerable, but during the Civil War, the location of the railroad would determine the in clusion of Berkeley and Jefferson counties in the State of West Virginia, regardless of the apprehensions of state-makers and ...
14 The Magazine of the attainments. At the outset of the Civil War, he was commissioned Colonel of the First Delaware Regiment and enjoyed a distinguished career, ... '' From the Official Records of the Civil War, full reports on Gen. Lockwood's career have been drawn for the rec...
... abundant past, but in his book two events dominate all others: John Brown's Raid and the Civil War. 10 For good reason, those six years of Jefferson County's History, 1859-1865, are most well-known and certainly the most written about. John Brown's Raid and the Civil War-if folk...
... nothing without you! For those of us who have forgotten or never knew about our ''qua i war'' with France, the magazine starts off with a great article about that ''war'' and how it affected Jefferson County. It i certainly different to see the first president as Commander in C...
...1 the foundation of tl1e old school, said to have been destroyed by artillery fire in the Civil War, even using some . of the stone and bricks. Its first teacl1er was Robert H. Duke. The last 4 teacher before tl1e war was William Rider, father of Miss Virginia Rider, now a retire...
22 The Magazine of the Old Capitol Prison during the Civil War ._~~• ~ ,. , , with sufficient meeting space 7 to accommodate Congress during the interim. 8 The building was known as the Brick Capitol. After Congress returned to the restored Capitol in 1819, the building then refe...
70 The Magaz ine of the '' d ... sen us peace and stop this awful war ... " 1864 in Jefferson Co unty by P. Douglas Perks On April 17th, 1861, the Virginia Secession Convention passed a resolution which called for a state-wide referendum which would severe Virginia's ties with th...
...w think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done. 4 The Civil War brought an end to slavery, and Brown's dire prediction that <<the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood'' came true. By the time the terms of surrende...
...obelisk monuments in the county to mark the upcoming 50th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. 68 The written description for marker number 20 states: 69 ''Engagement Between Early and Sheridan at Packett's Farm'' On August 21 st , 1864, Confederate Gen. Jubal Early began m...
...n Com.mission, which provided the bronze tablet. June 15 -Formal Opening of Harpers Ferry Civil War Showcase. A private enterprise project to further know ledge of the Civil War period, presenting the largest collection of Civil War artifacts ever assembled and re creating, on ...
...down the River Road is interesting and it is possible to see the remains of the mill, the Civil War tablets and the Potomac still rippling over the historic ford. The Artist Garnet W. Jex, born in Kent, Ohio, has spent most of his life in the Washington area. He studied art in Fr...
...r Cavalry, United States Army, who was stationed primarily in Jefferson County during the Civil War. These letters constitute an important source for students of the conflict and of the area. A viewpoint from the Union perspective is more difficult to obtain than accounts of Conf...
... the Provenance Of The enty-five Confederate Battle-Markers Most Jefferson Countians are aware of at least some of the Civil War battle-markers, but are hazy when asked about their origin by newcomer and others. Besides commemorating battles and skimishes throughout the county, v...
... members of the Keplinger family. There were eight other church members who contributed toward this beautiful glass window. John Keplinger was a farmer, owned and operated The Black Rock Farm, a dairy and farm located on the comer of the old Billmeyer Road, just off Rt. 45 and 1 ...
...of this blessed book, as an honest, childlike, teachable spirit.'' At the outbreak of the Civil War, Blessing was called to serve with the Confederate Army. He served with the Ar1ny of the Valley District. He baked bread for Mosby' s troops while they were in the area. He also co...
...late 1980s Hol lywood production of the movie Glory. The movie Glory depicted the famous Civil War Union regiment, the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts. The Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts was one of the first black northern regiments in the American Civil War. In the 1989 film Matthew Bro...
Jeffer on ount Hi torical ociety 97 po tpaid. The Civil War in Jefferson County wa produced in 2011 for the e quicentennial of the Civil War and in 30 minute how highlights of Civil War event vvhich took place in Jeffer on County. It is available for 20.00, 23.00 po tpaid. Perhap...
...Merritt 3,500 Fitzhugh Lee 1,500 NPS Ameri can Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP): The Civil War Sites Advisory Commission's tabulation of Battlefield Sites for Sheridan's Valley campaign on August 21, 1964, lists only ''The Battle of Summit Point." However, in the ABPP's more...
...4 Twice re-elected to the judgeship, Judge Parker was still holdi ng that office when the Civil War broke up all the courts in the area. He retired to his home in Winchester and though a slave-holder and intensely pro-Southern in his views, there is no record that he took an acti...
...ver, destined, in the near future to be blotted out by the unsparing hand of a disastrous civil war. At the outbreak of the war, Solomon S. Bedinger volunteered as a private in Company E, 10 Missouri Cavalry, C. S. A. We assume he volunteered September Solomon Singleton Bedinger ...
...rote articles and books on West Virginia history, including in 1963, West Virginia in the Civil War. He was active in the West Virginia Historical Education Foundation and the West Virginia Historical Society. He served in World War I and was a war correspondent in the Pacific du...
...newall Early: General Jubal Early The Magazine of the Elson, Henry W.: New History of the War (with the Civil War through the Camera) Evans, Clement A.: Confederate Military History, Vol. III Freeman, Douglas Southall: R. E. Lee, Vols. II and III Freeman, Douglas Southall: Lee's ...
...mes Beckman Many stories have been written and re-written about Harper,s Ferry during the Civil War. Several books have also been written about the history and operation of the Harper,s Ferry Armory. 1 In most general history books about Harper,s Ferry (and even Jefferson County)...
...int? The six years from the time of John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry to the end of the Civil War will always be among the most important half decades in Jefferson County's History. Many claim that the Civil War shaped our nation's history unlike any other event to date, and in...
...the 1859) is listed on her mother's tombstone.1 1 Two more children, George William and Edward G., were added to the household by 1860. 12 Eliza Hughes Tacey died June 11, 1858, and is buried in Fairview Lutheran Cemetery Bolivar, West Virginia. 13 -14 On November 5, 1858, George...
... at the death of John A. Thomson to his son Pembroke. Roxton had passed at the end of the Civil War to Mr. William Clements, General Manager of the B. & 0., who tore down the old house and built on the foundation a mod ern house. He left it to his grand-children, Mr. William Rob...
...11 The Lockwood House at Harpers Ferry was originally built in 1847-1848, by order of the War Department, as quarters for the Armory Paymaster. The site chosen was the grounds of the former residence of Captain John Hall of the Rifle Works at Harpers Ferry~ This building was demo...
...r 51 years after her husband's death-a record for Harewood owners. It was she, during the Civil War, who journeyed to the White House and obtained President Lincoln's handwritten release for her grandson from the old Capital Prison. Caught by Yankees driving cattle into the mount...
...and the passage of the monetary gains to urban centers. Economic prosperity, before World War II, when it had existed, de veloped from agriculture, commerce, or industrialization primarily centered in Martinsburg. Geology has confmed the one local extractive industry-limestone q...
...either \helled or occupied the church at any time. It \Va the 111 church during the Ci ii War to e .. cape eriou~ de truction 01· desecratio11. i of the former· pa. t r. have b en given the honor and r spon ibilil)' of bei11g Con~ ecrated Bi hop and ha e erved in many di ce~es. R...
...served the family as slaves on the plantation. Although they remained as slaves until the Civil War, the boys were to become more than field hands. In particular, Benjamin learned to read and write and was trained as a butler. Then, in 1863, John seized an opportunity for a diffe...
...es 230 acres. Printz presently owns approximately 126 head of cattle and also grows corn. Civil War Confederate Marker Number Four is located on the property commemorating two actions: a retreat from the Battle of Sharpsburg and the Battle of Cement Mill. Aspen Pool Farm includes...
...d raised concern about the project 's impact because Bedford, home of local Revolutionary War hero Daniel Bedinger, had once been located in the proposed project area. Bedford is well known to local Civil War historians a one of several homes in Jeffer on County to be burned by t...
...e had a pass that was given him to get between the Union and Confederate lines. After the Civil War ended, another Maine resident, Oliver Otis Howard (United States Army Major General during the Civil War and founder of Howard University in Washington, DC) was named head of the P...
...rmory, he must have been employed there for at least thirteen to fifteen years before the Civil War, as he had a sufficient income prior to 1850 to build a three-story brick and stone home at the top of Union Street in Bolivar (both his owning a home and being employed as an armo...
... left Harper's Ferry for Winchester, and l1i forn1er quarter became vacant. 15 During the Civil War, the unoccupied re ider1ce becan1e the headquarter of everal Union officers. In late 1862, Brigadier General He11r)' Haye Lock,vood was stationed briefly at Harper,s Ferry, used th...
...to the ferry. Notice that in the 1800s, the street went to the left (east) of the tobacco warehouse which is the second building to the left of the Shepherdstown bridge abutment. To day, Princess Street runs past the west side of the tobacco warehouse. The building which is clos...
...tte (Mrs.) a65 Wilhelma (Willelma) (Mrs. Aisquith) c165S, cl65N Tavenner Cecelia (Mrs.) Edward William Jesse Tayloe Estelle Frances (Mrs. Perry) Taylor Edmund Randolph Edmund Randolph, Jr. Eliza H. Alice Hunt (Mrs.) Julia Paca Kennedy (Mrs.) Te"ill Anne Elizabeth John Uriel Julia...
... Mrs. Herrington satys tha1 it was used as a rendezvous for soldiers in the Revolutionary War, was a ba·r racks during the War of 1812, and durini the Civil WaT it was a so occupied from time to tim'e 'by s.o1'Cliers, Union m·en and Confederates a tern, arting in its possession....
...ce and sat with the artist while the desired changes were ·being Inade. According to Miss Warner's story, early in the Civil War the house was turned over to Southern soldiers for a bar racks, and after the Battle of Antietalll it sheltered the wounded of both sides. The several...
70 The Magazine of the Jefferson County Historical Society 37Charles Edward Cunningham (1823-1895), son of Capt. James Cunningham (1789-1835) and Catherine Campbell, was one of the County's forty-niners. He settled in Little Rock, Ark., operating a lumber and furniture business. ...
...ian ar fame. he pr sent house was built by his grandson Jacob organ in 1831. n unexploded Civil War shell may be seen near the roof. his estate was the rendezvous of Stephenson's irginia Rift men. Little tone house near the spring is one of the olde t in We t Virginia. 10. Popodi...
64 The Magazine of the still visible and residents of the area continue to find Civil War bullets and other relics in their gardens. ''Stone Gables'' includes acreage on both sides of the road. Directly opposite the house is a log cabin built by the original owners who used it as...
...med. The construction of tasteful homes-especially dt1ring the four decades preceding the Civil War, as recorded in this Magazine Album of Histor ic Homes -places Jefferson County in the forefront of areas po sessing noteworthy ante-bell um structures. The po t-Civil War upreme C...
...hat hi father told torie of ha ing een rifle and ammunition hidden in the cave during the Civil War. The great tone wall on the hill above the barn and the Bull kin pring wa the ite of a kirmi h in the Civil War in late September of I 63 in which Captain omer wa killed. The prope...
...n here on Ea t Washington Street took place during the twenty -fi e year pa torate of Dr. Warren B. Dutton, a person endowed with great energy and leadership. The manse next door, was built in 1854. The iron fence which surrounds the property was erected as a memorial to Dr. Dutt...
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