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Wednesday, April 29, 2020

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Westminster Municipal election May 14, 2019

Authority Caroline Babylon, Treasurer.

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Saturday, June 23, 2018

A big thank you for the sponsors of this year’s Corbit’s Charge events.

A big thank you for the sponsors of this year’s Corbit’s Charge events.

155th Anniversary of Corbit’s Charge Civil War Encampment

I attended as many of the events todays as possible. The first commemoration was mentioned today several times. I have fond memories of the first event. And I miss Tom LeGore, one of the great historians of Corbit’s Charge, Civil War, Westminster, and Carroll County history. Mr. LeGore passed away last year. His passing left many of us sad.

Corbit's Charge: The Civil War in Carroll County
155th Anniversary Civil War Encampment
1838 Emerald Hill Ln, Westminster, MD
June 23-24th, 2018

Location: Emerald Hill Mansion, Historic Westminster City Hall, 1838 Emerald Hill Ln, Westminster, MD

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Brief Summary of the Event, according to the Pipe Creek Civil War Round Table website: https://pipecreekcivilwarroundtable.weebly.com/corbits-charge-encampment.html June 23, 2018

Each year during the last weekend in June, the Pipe Creek Civil War Round Table (PCCWRT) and other historical groups commemorate the tragedy of war that took place on Westminster’s streets and within surrounding Carroll County, MD. The annual event exhibits a great experience for visitors of all ages by providing children’s activities, concerts, military demonstrations, vignette skits, skirmishes between the armies, and presentations by living historians. Traditional artisans, such as blacksmiths and tinsmiths, will be present at the event. There are also guided tours of Westminster detailing the historic landmarks of the city and battle. Authors, local historic societies, and historic artifacts will be featured inside the Emerald Hill house.

The paramount activity will be a memorial service on Saturday June 23rd located at the Corbit’s Charge Monument at 200 Willis St. which recognizes the sacrifice of the Civil War era civilians of Westminster as well as the soldiers of both the Union and Confederate Armies. This memorial service concludes at the graveyard of Westminster’s Ascension Episcopal Church located at 23 N. Court St. with the laying of two wreaths on the graves of 2 Civil War Veterans: 1st Lt. John Murray, Co. E 4th Virginia Cavalry (Confederate, killed during Corbit’s Charge) and Samuel Butler Co. C 32nd Inf. U.S.C.T. (Union)

So, please join the Pipe Creek Civil War Roundtable and fellow historical groups in attendance at the 155th Anniversary Corbit's Charge Encampment to honor and commemorate the Civil War history in Carroll County, MD.

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Saturday, May 20, 2017

On the Edge of Freedom: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad in the Borderlands

On the Edge of Freedom: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad in the Borderlands - Concurrent Session 14: In it Together: UGRR Networks at work. A portion of the National Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Conference. Saturday May 20, 2017

Presentation 1: Tracking Harriet Tubman's network from Maryland to Canada West by Don Papaon.

Presentation 2: by Michael Boston: Platt H. Skinner - Abolishionist and teacher of Deaf, Blind and Mute Black Children.

Saturday May 20, 2017

On the Edge of Freedom: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad in the Borderlands

Presentation 1: Tracking Harriet Tubman's network from Maryland to Canada West by Don Papaon.

Presentation 2: by Michael Boston: Platt H. Skinner - Abolishionist and teacher of Deaf, Blind and Mute Black Children.

Saturday May 20, 2017

See also: Harriet Tubman Museum & Educational Center 20 May 2017

Harriet Tubman Museum & Educational Center

424 Race St, Cambridge, MD 21613

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20 May 2017 Saturday for potions of the National Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Conference.

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Harriet Tubman Museum & Educational Center

424 Race St, Cambridge, MD 21613

http://visitdorchester.org/harriet-tubman-museum-educational-center/

20 May 2017 Saturday for potions of the National Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Conference.

Labels: Diversity, History, History 1861 1865 American Civil War, History African-American, MD co Dorchester Co, MD muni Cambridge Dorchester Co, People, People Tubman Harriet

Harriet Tubman Museum & Educational Center

424 Race St, Cambridge, MD 21613

http://visitdorchester.org/harriet-tubman-museum-educational-center/

20 May 2017 Saturday for potions of the National Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Conference.

Labels: Diversity, History, History 1861 1865 American Civil War, History African-American, MD co Dorchester Co, MD muni Cambridge Dorchester Co, People, People Tubman Harriet

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Monday, September 14, 2015

Civil War Trust: Civil War Casualties

Civil War Trust: Civil War Casualties

Retrieved September 14, 2015 the Civil War Trust website

THE COST OF WAR: KILLED, WOUNDED, CAPTURED, AND MISSING

The Civil War was America's bloodiest conflict. The unprecedented violence of battles such as Shiloh, Antietam, Stones River, and Gettysburg shocked citizens and international observers alike. Nearly as many men died in captivity during the Civil War as were killed in the whole of the Vietnam War. Hundreds of thousands died of disease. Roughly 2% of the population, an estimated 620,000 men, lost their lives in the line of duty. Taken as a percentage of today's population, the toll would have risen as high as 6 million souls.

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Consequences

Gettysburg dead

The Battle of Gettysburg left approximately 7,000 corpses in the fields around the town. Family members had to come to the battlefield to find their loved ones in the carnage. (Library of Congress)

Approximately one in four soldiers that went to war never returned home. At the outset of the war, neither army had mechanisms in place to handle the amount of death that the nation was about to experience. There were no national cemeteries, no burial details, and no messengers of loss. The largest human catastrophe in American history, the Civil War forced the young nation to confront death and destruction in a way that has not been equaled before or since.

Recruitment was highly localized throughout the war. Regiments of approximately one thousand men, the building block of the armies, would often be raised from the population of a few adjacent counties. Soldiers went to war with their neighbors and their kin. The nature of recruitment meant that a battlefield disaster could wreak havoc on the home community.

The 26th North Carolina, hailing from seven counties in the western part of the state, suffered 714 casualties out of 800 men during the Battle of Gettysburg. The 24th Michigan squared off against the 26th North Carolina at Gettysburg and lost 362 out of 496 men. Nearly the entire student body of Ole Miss--135 out 139--enlisted in Company A of the 11th Mississippi. Company A, also known as the "University Greys" suffered 100% casualties in Pickett's Charge. Eighteen members of the Christian family of Christianburg, Virginia were killed during the war. It is estimated that one in three Southern households lost at least one family member.

One in thirteen surviving Civil War soldiers returned home missing one or more limbs. Pre-war jobs on farms or in factories became impossible or nearly so. This led to a rise in awareness of veterans' needs as well as increased responsibility and social power for women. For many, however, there was no solution. Tens of thousands of families slipped into destitution.

Read more here: http://www.civilwar.org/

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Thursday, April 02, 2015

See the Sites | Crossroads of the American Civil War

See the Sites | Crossroads of War:

http://www.crossroadsofwar.org/

HISTORIC SITES MAPS

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AFRICAN AMERICAN

Explore sites that touch on the African American experience during the Civil War. Visit places like Tolson’s Chapel, in Sharpsburg, a post-Civil War church and Freedmen’s Bureau school, and Lincoln Cemetery in Gettysburg, where many African American military veterans of the Civil War are buried. View Map

BATTLEFIELDS / MILITARY

In addition to the well-known battlefields, explore places like Ball’s Bluff, and South Mountain, and Shepherdstown, where smaller engagements had no less meaning for the participants. View Map

CEMETERIES / MONUMENTS

Hundreds of monuments throughout the region honor the exploits and sacrifices of so many, and several cemeteries are dedicated to those who fought and died in the war. View Map

HISTORIC BUILDINGS

Historic buildings are almost everywhere you turn here. John Brown’s Fort in Harpers Ferry, Kemp Hall in Frederick, the David Wills house in Gettysburg, and the Landon House in Urbana are just a few to explore. View Map

HOMEFRONT

Civilians in this border region experienced the war almost daily. Visit the Jenny Wade House in Gettysburg, the Barbara Fritchie Museum in Frederick, and the Union Mills Homestead in Carroll County to see how war affected the citizens of the area. View Map

MUSEUMS / ARCHIVES

Find out how the wounded were cared for at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, and visit the Belle Boyd House to see where the spy lived in Martinsburg. View Map

NATIONAL / STATE PARKS

National Park Service sites like Antietam National Battlefield and Gettysburg National Military Park, and state parks like Maryland’s South Mountain Battlefield tell the story of the bravery of soldiers and the carnage of war. View Map

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Thursday, January 01, 2015

ROBERT FISK Sunday 28 December 2014: Did you know that it will soon be the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War?

A timely reminder of the bloody anniversary we all forgot - Comment - Voices - The Independent:

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A timely reminder of the bloody anniversary we all forgot - Comment - Voices - The Independent

ROBERT FISK Sunday 28 December 2014: Did you know that it
will soon be the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War?

ROBERT FISK Sunday 28 December 2014

A timely reminder of the bloody anniversary we all forgot

Did you know that it will soon be the 150th anniversary of
the American Civil War?

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/a-timely-reminder-of-the-bloody-anniversary-we-all-forgot-9947514.html

… there’s a piece of history we’ve forgotten. For while the
start of the Great War of 1914-18 has been commemorated to the point of
spiritualism these past 12 months, who remembers that this week we enter the
150th anniversary year of the end of the American Civil War?

But for the Irish, too, the civil war of 1861-1865, is a
sombre anniversary.

They reckon that 210,000 Irish soldiers fought in British
uniform in the First World War, and that 49,300 were killed. Yet almost as many
Irishmen fought in the American Civil War – 200,000 in all, 180,000 in the
Union army, 20,000 for the Confederates.

An estimated 20 per cent of the Union navy were Irish-born –
26,000 men – and the total Irish dead of the American conflict came to at least
30,000. Many of the Irish fatalities were from Famine families who had fled the
desperate poverty of their homes in what was then the United Kingdom, only to
die at Antietam and Gettysburg.

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Monday, May 26, 2014

One of the last Confederate generals surrenders — History.com This Day in History — 5/26/1865

One of the last Confederate generals surrenders — History.com This Day in History — 5/26/1865:

"Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, surrenders on this day in 1865, one of the last Confederate generals to capitulate. Smith, who had become commander of the area in January 1863, was charged with keeping the Mississippi River open to the Southerners.

Yet he was more interested in recapturing Arkansas and Missouri, largely because of the influence of Arkansans in the Confederate Congress who helped to secure his appointment." ... Read more: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/general-edmund-kirby-smith-surrenders?et_cid=62148093&et_rid=704749232&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.history.com%2fthis-day-in-history%2fgeneral-edmund-kirby-smith-surrenders

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Saturday, May 10, 2014

Announcing ‘The Civil War in Carroll County 1864’ on May 17, 2014 at the Historical Society of Carroll County

The Civil War in Carroll County 1864

The Historical Society of Carroll County (HSCC)

216 East Main Street, Westminster, MD

Partners: Carroll County Public Library and Dave Shuey of History Teller Productions

Westminster, MD - The Civil War comes alive this month at the Historical Society of Carroll County, Maryland, Inc. (HSCC) with a revealing new exhibit at Cockey’s, 216 East Main Street, Westminster, Maryland.

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The exhibit opens to the public for the first time at 10 AM on May 17.

Special programs will be presented at 10:30 AM and 2:30 PM. Admission is free. The exhibit will remain through 2014, Tuesday through Friday, 10 AM to 4 PM.

‘The Civil War in Carroll County: 1864’ commemorates Carroll County’s prominent role in the War. Visitors will see artifacts, photos and documents that showcase Lincoln’s presidential election of 1864, Civil War era conscription, United States Colored Troops from Carroll County, the Johnson-Gilmor raid of New Windsor and Westminster, the personal effects of Civil War soldiers, and Civil War weapons.

Visitors also will enjoy a sideboard that survived the July, 1864, burning of Chambersburg, PA, when Brigadier General John McCausland, Jr. demanded ransom money for the Confederacy.

David Shuey of History Teller Productions will present General John McCausland in period attire, describing his ride through Maryland 150 years ago.

The General’s horse will be on hand to delight children of all ages. Shuey’s appearance is sponsored by the Carroll County Public Library (CCPL) and History Teller Productions.

The historic Sherman-Fisher-Shellman House Museum at 206 East Main Street and the Shriver-Weybright Gallery in Kimmey House at 210 East Main Street will be open for tours.

Admission to the Shriver-Weybright Gallery is free.

Admission to the Shellman House is free for HSCC members, $ 5 each for others.

Visitors may participate in a special raffle for gifts from HSCC’s Shop at Cockey’s, while the CCPL Bookmobile will help visitors peruse and borrow books and other media about the Civil War.

HSCC is celebrating 75 years of service to the community in 2014. Founded in 1939 to preserve and restore the Mary Shellman house, HSCC today exists to collect and preserve artifacts and documents about Carroll County history and educate the public about local heritage. The Society is a partner with the City of Westminster in celebrating the 250th anniversary of the founding of the City of Westminster.

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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Ground broken for memorial to honor African-American Civil War veterans

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Tuesday, July 09, 2013

#cw150 Soldiers and Civilians shared common ground #UnionMillsMd http://tinyurl.com/n7z5mjz #gburg150 @SunWestminster @Blair_CaEagle

Soldiers and civilians shared common ground in Carroll during Civil War [Eagle Archives]

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By Kevin Dayhoff, July 8, 2013 bsun.md/18J1HrY

Events in Westminster and Union Mills on June 28, 29 and 30 in 1863 later proved to be pivotal for what eventually became the Battle of Gettysburg, which took place July 1-3 that same year. That battle, only a short distance from the Maryland line, was arguably the turning point in the Civil War.

On June 28, Carroll County began paying its respects to that history with services at the Corbit's Charge monument on Court Street and at the Ascension Church cemetery. The services were followed by a guided tour of the battle scene, led by military historian Daniel Pyle.

On June 29 and 30, the historic commemorations moved north of Westminster — closer to Gettysburg and Carroll's appointment with immortality — to a living history event, "Citizen Meets Soldier," at the Shriver family Union Mills Homestead.

Sam Riley, a member of the Homestead board of governors, explained that the purpose of the program, "was to commemorate the events of 150 years ago … (which were) defining events in terms of the history of our community and our country."