Posts Tagged local history

Stonewall Jackson’s Birthday

Thanks to Sue Prager for forwarding the following announcement to us:
A public buffet and a program by noted Civil War historian Dr. Bob Meadows will be held
on Friday, January 22 at WVU Jackson’s Mill to mark the birthday of Stonewall Jackson.
The buffet will run from 5-7pm at Mount Vernon Dining Hall, featuring a hearty [...]

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Does Anyone Care About American History Anymore?

The following is a link sent to us by Karen Ramsburg concerning the Smith House in Mercersburg, PA. We ran an article about it earlier this year. It would appear that things have taken a turn for the worse. Once again, we seem to have short-sighted local officials who don’t seem to give a hoot [...]

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Cumberland Goes to War 2009

Cumberland Goes to War 2009

From November 6th to the 14th, Cumberland, MD held its second ‘Cumberland Goes to War’ event to commemorate the city’s part in WWII history. While there were activities occuring all week, I attended only on the weekend of November 7-8.
This weekend was also the first time that I spent the whole event in my Volkssturm [...]

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Victory at Old Bedford Village – Report from the Front Lines

The following is an email that we received from Roger Kirwin, the director of Old Bedford Village regarding the efforts to save the Village over the past few months.The Reenactor Post is proud to be a supporter of OBV and we salute them on their success in keeping the doors open!

Dear Jim,
Good to see you [...]

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Troops and trains – Strasburg PA 2009

Troops and trains - Strasburg PA 2009

Bill and Linda Donegan file this report on the “Troops and Trains” event at the  Strasburg, PA Railroad attraction.
Linda and I made our yearly pilgrimage to Strasbourg, PA for the “Troops and Trains” living history event on November 6, 7 and 8, 2009.
Surprisingly, I took few photographs this year, because my impression was that of a US War [...]

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Bulltown Civil War Reenactment 2009

Bulltown Civil  War Reenactment 2009

The weekend of  October 10-11 saw the bi-annual reenactment of the battle of the 1863 Battle of Bulltown in Braxton County, WV sponsored by the Stonewall Jackson Reenactment Unit. Despite heavy rains on Friday, There was a decent turnout of reenactors and a goodly number of spectators for the weekend. There was also a quality [...]

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Portersville Steam Show – 28th Infantry Living History

Portersville Steam Show - 28th Infantry Living History

The weekend of October 3 and 4 marked the first time that Co. K of the 28th Infantry Division, 110th Regiment, participated in the Portersville Steam Show at Portersville, Pa. This is a very nice event which is put on by the Northwest PA Steam Engine and Old Equipment Association Inc. It offers an opportunity [...]

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Upcoming Event – The Battle of Rich Mountain

The weekend of July 11-12 will once again see the biannual reenactment of the Battle of Rich Mountain near Beverly, WV.  In June, 1861, Major General George B. McClellan took command of Union troops in Western Virginia and on the 27th of that month, set out  for Randolph County to engage the Confederate forces there.  [...]

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Rowlesburg, WV WWII event 2009

Rowlesburg, WV WWII event 2009

Despite the obligatory rain on Friday, the weather was quite nice for the rest of the weekend for this event.  There were several more reenactors than last year and for many of those who had been there before, the displays were bigger and better than ever. Especially impressive was the camp of the U.S. Navy [...]

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Rowlesburg WWII Living History

Just a reminder that the 4th annual Rowlesburg, WV WWII Living History event will take place on this coming weekend, June 26 and 27. This is a fun event and extremely Reenactor-friendly.  If you are not signed up as a participant, then make plans to come as a spectator.  It’s a small, laid-back, but quality [...]

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Julia Pierpont Day, Fairmont, WV

Julia Pierpont Day, Fairmont, WV

On Saturday, May 23, 2009, I and three other Union Reenactors went to the Marion County Historical Society in downtown Fairmont to serve as color guard for a recognition day for Julia Pierpont, wife of Francis H. Pierpont of Fairmont, who was appointed as Governor of the Restored State of Virginia after the secession of [...]

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Grafton National Cemetary Lantern Tour

Grafton National Cemetary Lantern Tour

On Friday, May 22, 2009, I took part in the annual lantern tour organized by Mark Tennant. This tour focuses on the many Union soldiers buried in the Grafton National Cemetary located on the south side of downtown Grafton (not the new cemetary at Pruntytown a few miles away). For this year’s tour, we had [...]

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Battle of Lewisburg – Report

The following is a report from our correspondents, Bill and Linda Donegan in Southern West Virginia:

Report of the 147th Anniversary Battle of Lewisburg Living History and Reenactment

May 14-17, 2009, Lewisburg, West Virginia

By Bill Donegan

This year’s event celebrated Abraham Lincoln’s 200th Birthday.

This was my experience at the 2009 event. Linda and I have been attending [...]

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WWII Living History – Brownsville Steam and Gas Assn.

WWII Living History - Brownsville Steam and Gas Assn.

This past weekend was National Road Festival weekend for the communities along Rt. 40 in Pennsylvania. I fell in with the local 28th Infantry Co. K for a living history encampment as part of the festival. We set up at the Brownsville Steam and Gas Association’s fairgrounds located 4 miles west of Brownsville, PA. There [...]

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Quest for the Graves of Two Brave Boys in Blue

Quest for the Graves of Two Brave Boys in Blue

On Sunday, April 19, 2009 Jim Barnes and I visited the graves of two brave soldiers that fought for the Union during the Civil War, Jesse Taylor and John Shanes.  When I took the Civil War bus trip last fall (see related story  CW Bus Trip in past posts) I had heard the story [...]

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Hurricane Bridge and Scary Creek Weekend Article

Here is an article regarding the upcoming Civil War event in Putnam County this coming weekend. From the Putnam Standard Newspaper:

Civil War weekend brings in re-enactors from everywhere
Carolyn Harmon
reporter

CULLODEN – Re-enactors will provide a close account of a couple of the battles of our country’s Civil War at the 12th Annual Civil War weekend.
The event’s [...]

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McGrew House, Kingwood, WV September 6, 2008

McGrew House, Kingwood, WV September 6, 2008

This past Saturday, I spent the day participating in a living history event at the James C. McGrew house in Kingwood, WV. Mr. McGrew was a community leader in antebellum Preston County, Virginia (later West Virginia) and was a delegate to the Virginia Secession Convention in 1861. He voted against secession and returned home to [...]

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Rowlesburg, WV 2008

Rowlesburg, WV 2008

On June 29, we exhibited at Rowlesburg, WV. We set up our Soviet exhibit.
World War II Reenacting/Living History is a relatively new segment of the hobby in West Virginia, but it is growing in interest in the Reenactor community and also is attracting the interest of the general public. Rowlesburg, WV puts on a [...]

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