wvra newsletter may 2010

WVRA Reminders...Dues…..Newsletter Deadlines

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Donnie Stewart & Lisa Johnson

Calendar of Events *****

May 1-2 School of Soldier May 1 WVRA Meeting

SoS 3:30 *****

May 15-16 New Market May 21 Battle of Lewisburg

***** May 28 WVRA Display

Three Rivers Festival May 29 Marion County

Pierpont Day *****

June 5-6 Phillippi & June 5 WVRA Meeting

***** June 13-15

Camp Geiger Whitehall PA June 19 Glenville

Living History & Parade *****

July 2-5 Gettysburg *****

July 24 WVRA Picnic & July 24-25 Heritage Days

Beverly

DISPATCH

Membership Directory will be provided May every year to the WVRA membership only. If you do not wish to be included in the directory please contact your WVRA Secretary and Newsletter Editor BEFORE April 1. Directory WILL NOT be posted on the web. New enrollment forms need filled out every year to update the directory and provide necessary information for unit, grants and insurance purposes. Dues should be paid by March every year.

Articles, pictures, or infor-mation to be included in the Trans-Allegheny Dis-patch MUST be emailed

by May 15 to [email protected]

***** Or mailed by May 10 to:

Jack & Tonya Daft 479 Plum Run Road

Mannington WV 26582

DUES NEED TO BE PAID BY MARCH EVERY YEAR WVRA Membership dues is

$15 per year, FAMILY dues are $25. per year

mail to : WVRA TREASURER

Porter Stiles

1258 Bell Run Road Fairmont WV 26554

The WVRA’s Distinguished UNION gentlemen dressed in their finest attire for the WVRA Spring Gala Ball: Chuck Critchfield, Terry Hayhurst, Jim Barnes, John Foudray, and Mark Tennant.

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WVRA Newsletter is now on the web site

www.wvra.org for Sutler and equipment

information check out the web site.

For timely discussions about CW events, clothing, firearms, and yes, even personalities in

the hobby, Go To

www.authenticcampaigner.com

Or www.cwreenactors.com

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Chel Depp….Executive Director Rich Mountain Battlefield

Foundation /Historic Beverly PO Box 227 Beverly, WV 26253

304-637-7424 www.richmountain.org

www.historicbeverly.org

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SPRING 2010 CIVIL WAR EVENTS

March 26 – May 2 Berkley Springs - "Valor in the Valley" multi-media art exhibit at Ice House Special Ex-hibits Gallery, Berkeley Springs. )he Civil War in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia and Shenandoah Val-ley, especially Morgan County and Jackson's January 1862 Bath-Romney Campaign. Paintings, sketches, wood-working, reproductions, artifacts and photography. www.macicehouse.org , [email protected]. April 23-25 Prickets Fort - Jones Imboden Raid Civil War Weekend, www.prickettsfort.org April 27 Charleston - History Bowl: The West Virginia Division of Culture and History is planning a History Bowl for eighth graders on April 27, 2010. www.wvculture.org/historybowl/2010.html May 21 –23 Lewisburg - Battle of Lewisburg Living History & Reenactment in historic downtown Lewisburg. Theme is Uncivil War. Saturday skirmish, Sunday battle on street where May 23, 1862, battle took place. Sat-urday dinner, Sunday breakfast, civilian & medical scenarios, speakers. Military & civilians reenactors wanted. [email protected]; www.battleoflewisburg.org. June 4-6 Philippi - Blue/Gray Reunion, www.philippi.org, June 20 Wheeling - West Virginia Day at Independence Hall, www.wvculture.org June 20 Winchester – First Battle of Winchester seminar & tour hosted by Lord Fairfax Community College’s Center for Civil War History in Middletown. Morning lecture about Stonewall Jackson by Prof. Jonathan A. Noyalas. Afternoon tour of sites associated with First Battle of Winchester. $20. [email protected]; (540) 868-7021; www.lfccworkforce.com June 20 Silver Springs - In Search of Lincoln’s Assassins – A Field Tour of Ford’s Theatre, Surratt Tavern, Dr. Mudd’s House, Port Royal and the Garrett Farm. Civil War Education Association. Craig Howell (Sunday 8:00 AM-8:00 PM http://cwea.net June 24-27 Shepherdstown - The George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War, Shepherd Uni-versity Petersburg: In theTrenches with the Common Soldier www.shepherd.edu/gtmcweb/cwcenter.htm July 15-17 Elkins - The Rich Mountain Campaign: “The First Campaign of the Civil War” - A Field & Walking Tour, with Gary Ecelbarger and W. Hunter Lesser (Thursday 8:00 PM - Saturday 5:00 PM) Civil War Educa-tion Association http://cwea.net . July 24 – 25 Beverly Heritage Day, www.historicbeverly.org . July 16-18 Belington - Laurel Hill Reenactment: The first land battles of America’s Civil War took place in the Tygart Valley of present-day West Virginia. One of those contests the Battle of Laurel Hill is celebrated annu-ally with a vivid re-enactment of the baptism by fire of north and south www.battleof laurelhill.org. July 16 -18 Barboursville - Civil War Days. The 149th Anniversary of Battle of Barboursville on Saturday and Sunday Battle of September 1862. Ladies tea, camp dance, 1860 church service, children's activities. Linda Miller, (304) 762-2657; [email protected] September 8-14 Tour: The Civil War in West Virginia, National Museum of the Civil War Soldier – A. Wilson Greene, 1-877-PAMPLIN, www.pamplinpark.org/events.html September 11-13 Romney – Hampshire Heritage Fest, www.hampshireheritagefest.com October 8-10 Droop Mountain – Reenactment, www.droopmountainbattlefield.com, www.wvra.org. October 13 – 16 Charles Town - Embedded with the Troops: James E. Taylor Sketches Berkeley and Jeffer-son Counties, West Virginia – A Field Tour, with Edwin C. Bearss, Peggy MacBean and Dana MacBean (Wednesday 7:00 PM - Saturday 6:00 PM) Civil War Education Association http://cwea.net. November 6-7 Guyandotte Civil War Days focuses its programs on this historic event in an effort to celebrate and promote the rich heritage of the area. The re-enactment of the Confederate raid on Saturday is the highlight of this event. Be sure to check out the display cases at the Guyandotte Library for a display of Civil War facts and photographs. www.guyandottecivilwardays.com.

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, I am writing in regards to a new historic timeline that will take place this September in the town of Parsons, WV. The purpose it to raise funds to preserve the Corricks Ford site here in the town. It's importance by allowing the Union to se-cure western Virginia and being the site of the first general killed must be preserved. I am inviting all time periods from French and Indian War through Vietnam as the event is set up to display the American soldier and his/her adversaries through these time periods. The event website can be found at www.americansoldieratwar.webs.com and has the forms already posted and will be adding directions to the town today. As a teacher I took on organizing for educational purposes with the belief that both sides in the conflicts should be displayed. If you know of any groups in certain time periods such as Korea, Spanish-American War, Mexican-American War please forward this email to them. As reenactors in the US and Canada we all share a goal in preserving our nations histories and we work together to achieve them (except when the Olympics are here and we cheer for our home county). As we receive those registrations for units attending we will be able to set the schedule in regards for small reenact-ments, memorial service, drills, etc. Please feel free to contact us at [email protected] if you need any info or have any questions. Will use the website to put as much information as possible on it. I understand that some of you already have events scheduled or it may be too far to attend. However, again I am ask-ing if you would be kind enough to pass the event information along to those who might be interested. I thank you and hope to see you this September. Sincerely Robert Haught ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Julie Peirpont day …Sorry for the delay in reaching everyone but JoAnn with thew MC historical Society said she was not able to be in charge this year which made things a little difficult. Gena, our MCHS members and I have talk about this & we would like to try something a little less formal this year & more in keeping with Decoration Day. I hope you all like our idea and we are still open for any suggestions as we are just starting with the plans. Wha-ke-we-nn will be playing songs of the Civil War period. We are hoping that Pam & Art Dodd will be there to talk with people starting at 10. We would like to have a Civil War Display & a scanner encourging the people to bring in their Civil War photos & documents to be scanned. We are going to contact groups to ask them to take a portion of Woodlawn to clean the Civil War Graves & encourage people to buy the Confederate/GAR markers we have to place on the graves. Mark & Porter , I hope you can help with this. We are planning to have free box lunches for people who do this at Woodlawn. Also, to encourage people in other communities to take at least part of this day to go cementeries to clean graves. Tonja I am hoping that you have some ideas also. I think having the Civil War Re-enactors at the museum will play an important part for this day if you are agreeable to these ideas. I have scheduled a table for Friday down at the Coal River Festi-ful. From 3-6 the school children will be there & it sure would help to have some dressed re-enactors. This would be a great time to have your recruitment pamplets there. The newspaper likes the idea and are planning to do a feature story. We are looking for suggestions, Ideas, etc. Dora Grubb. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Good afternoon all, I have attached a list of West Virginia Civil War related events for this year and for 2011. Please contact me if you know of an event that should be added to this list. Also if you know of events that are scheduled for 2012 or 2013 please contact me with the information. Thank you for your time Rick Richard A. Wolfe 60 Gregory Lane Bridgeport, WV 26330 w 304 625 2330 , h 304 592 5851 , c 304 844 0647 [email protected] , [email protected] , www.pawv.org/civilwar150/index.htm www.wv150.com ,

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WVRA Meeting

MAY 1, 2010

3:30pm

Rowlesburg SoS

under pavilion near

restrooms and food

THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE WVRA ASSOCIATION

REENACTING THE ERA OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

MAY 2010 ISSUE

The opinions expressed in this newsletter do not necessarily reflect any official view of the WVRA or its members.

The Trans-Allegheny Dispatch

c/o Tonya Daft , Editor

479 Plum Run Road

Mannington , WV 26582

www.wvra.org

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