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The Links, Total Running Time, and Title of all these videos FOLLOW this array of all the videos. Scroll down for the links.

Go to the Jim Surkamp channel on youtube. I have not included videos that are not about history. If you look through these title page images from each video created for civilwarscholars.com, take the exact wording shown in the subheading and search for it in the youtube.com search window to watch it. Some 16,900, minutes of the videos here have been watched up to August 20, 2021. Among the most popular are: The NAACP Begins, Ben Franklin’s Swimming Lesson, The Cave under Charles Town WV, The African Origins of Southern Cooking, John Brown’s Hanging, 2009, Mosby’s Greenback Raid, Oct., 1864, one called “Stonewall’s Trick,” Historian Dennis Frye’s account of the capture of Harper’s Ferry in 1862, a video around the very popular, wistful song during the Civil War called “Lorena.” Others that are popular are videos featuring Terry Tucker, such as “SONG Thy Will Be Done by Charlotte Elliott” and “Bonnie Charlie.” A personal favorite of mine is a video around the song “Lakes of Pontechartrain” with Ardyth Gilbertson, Shana Aisenberg (shanasongs.com) and the late harmonica virtuoso, Dave Hellyer. If you like the eloquent, sensitive music compositions around many of the videos since about 2015, they are by Cam Millar (cammillar.com). Also I believe the last two years of video are all especially in-depth and fascinating about certain people.

FOLLOWING THIS GALLERY OF VIDEOS, THERE IS ON THIS PAGE AN 89,000 WORD LISTING OF ALL THE VIDEOS, WITH ALL THEIR TITLES, TOTAL RUNNING TIMES AND LINKS

JIM SURKAMP’s LISTING OF HISTORY-RELATED VIDEOS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, WV AND ADJACENT COUNTIES (word count: 87,243)

First, if you would like four hours of pleasant music to work by, laced with sounds of historical life and events – go here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSXoj0c5My4

INTRODUCTION AND EXPLANATION

This is a listing of videos researched, written and produced (unless otherwise indicated) by Jim Surkamp about Jefferson County, WV and environs as it has been in the past, both far and near.

A great number of videos center around an expert and a great number were created in collaboration with American Public University System between June, 2011 through September, 2021 with great appreciation of its then President and CEO, Wally Boston.

There had been a corresponding website called civilwarscholars.com, which as of July, 2021 had over one million words of researched content. Since September, 2021, I have been re-establishing and enhancing that content again on a website by the same name but on my own server.

The new version of civilwarscholars.com is gradually being added to. But the pre-existing million-word civilwarscholars.com can be reached via the Wayback Machine site.

Here is the starting link
https://web.archive.org/web/20210609112856/https://civilwarscholars.com/

When you see the left-to-right timeline showing upload history, click on the posts for 2018-2020, not earlier. On the calendar, certain dates are highlighted, meaning there were uploads on that date. If you click on one of those highlighted dates, the screen takes you to the Home page from that date. Then on the menu, click on: “All Posts All Videos”
https://web.archive.org/web/20190829124856/https://civilwarscholars.com/index-2/

This takes you to a complete chronological listing to each video and its corresponding post with live links to the post’s location within the site and a link going to the video on youtube. In some instances, the link is also listed to a corresponding set of images and text on Jim Surkamp’s page at Flickr.com

Flickr.com has a Jim Surkamp account with some 21,000 images organized around the name of the video or post, that, by the time you read this, will have passed a milestone, that being the analytics report of over 100,000,000 views. The Link: https://flickr.com/photos/jimsurkamp/

The videos you find here have, by the time you get this, will have nearly 20,000 hours of viewing, as recorded by youtube’s analytics.

The latest videos uploaded after September, 2021 are uploaded in conjunction with another series of posts at a revived version of civilwarscholars.com on my server and independent of American Public University System. It can be similarly searched but with few Posts so far and with corresponding videos. This website will continually grow until it contains all the content from the previous civilwarscholars.com site and more.

https://civilwarscholars.com

Be sure to sample the mentioned “music-to-work-by” video, made up of many of the musical elements in al the videos. I call it “A River of Story.” Cam Millar and Shana Aisenberg created the vast majority of this wonderful dream stream of acoustic and full-arrangement pieces.

Thanks for caring about what might be YOUR history too. – Jim Surkamp – July, 2021

BEGINS THE LISTING OF VIDEOS AND THEIR LINKS

Jim Surkamp on the History of Jefferson County, WV Pt. 1 (captioning) May, 2013
Arguably the most historic rural county in America and also among the most preserved with over a thousand structures built before the Civil War.

Jim Surkamp received his BA in American history at Colgate University; did fact-checking for five years for American Heritage Magazine in NYC, compiled the 15 archival boxes of declassified documents concerning art stolen during World War II that is currently the “James Surkamp Collection” at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in NYC. It has been utilized by the Clinton Administration to locate missing art. Received a $3500 Fellowship from the West Virginia Arts Commission, awarded the Silver Angel Award in 1996 (approx) for “moral excellence in the media.” (The Awards program was discontinued recently). His nationally PRI-broadcast, hour-long docudrama concerning a Vietnam veteran suffering from PTSD was nominated for a Peabody by WGBH in Boston and by Drs. Charles Figley and Roger Pittman, leading psychiatrists studying combat PTSD – who nominated the program because of its clinically-accurate depictions.

TRT: 24:46
Video link
https://youtu.be/FZtey-CAgIc
Made possible with the support of American Public University System.

Jim Surkamp on the History of Jefferson County, WV Pt. 2 (captioning) May, 2013
Arguably the most historic rural county in America and also among the most preserved with over a thousand structures built before the Civil War.

TRT: 16:23
Video link
https://youtu.be/_8C39H_OPmg
Made possible with the support of American Public University System.

Jim Surkamp on the History of Jefferson County, WV Pt. 3 (captioning) May, 2013
Arguably the most historic rural county in America and also among the most preserved with over a thousand structures built before the Civil War.

TRT: 2:44
Video link
https://youtu.be/UJqSiEOE7Ys
Made possible with the support of American Public University System.

Shepherdstown summer, 1986 Pt. 1 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1980s) June, 2008 TRT: 4:18
Video link:https://youtu.be/dQtbj9Rzosk

Shepherdstown in summer, 1986 Pt. 2a by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1980s) June, 2008 TRT: 2:23
https://youtu.be/HMcF_SbhNgQ

Shepherdstown in summer, 1986 Pt. 2b by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1980s) June, 2008 TRT: 2:51
Video link: https://youtu.be/7FxssLDbPdE

Shepherdstown in summer, 1986 pt. 3 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1980s) June, 2008 TRT: 4:33
Video link: https://youtu.be/PChu9V-hwjE

Shepherdstown in summer, 1986 pt. 4 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1980s) June, 2008 TRT: 4:31
Video link: https://youtu.be/3rPV7SETiQk

Shepherdstown in summer, 1986 – Pt. 5 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1980s) June, 2008 TRT: 2:26
Video link: https://youtu.be/euhH-yM78Jg

Shepherdstown in summer, 1986 – Pt. 6 – Cosmic Conclusion by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1980s) June, 2008 TRT: 4:34 Video link: https://youtu.be/gKnEuxda_hM

Shannondale Boy Scouts in 1941 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1980s) July, 2008 TRT: 1:57
Video link: https://youtu.be/4qInh6ckV3w

The Jefferson County Fair Part 1 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1980s) August, 2008 TRT: 5:09
Video link: https://youtu.be/FySKScOu5ew

The Jefferson County Fair, Pt. 2 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1980s) August, 2008 TRT: 5:44
Video link: https://youtu.be/H0FHjfzk3Vc

The History of Apples in Jefferson County, Part 1 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1980s) August, 2008 TRT: 4:49
Video link: https://youtu.be/NaMIkgaZpCY

The History of Apples in Jefferson County, Part 2 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1980s) August, 2008 TRT: 6:20
Video link: https://youtu.be/u0pOjtRpd_A

“Out of Darkness” excerpt #1 on United Mine Workers (Originally mid-1980s) August, 2008 TRT: 4:17
Video link: https://youtu.be/xpHQ_SHDBIc

“Out of Darkness” excerpt #2 on miners rebellion (Originally mid-1980s) August, 2008 TRT: 4:24
Video link: https://youtu.be/BERMsAQEfVo

History of the Cave in Charles Town by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1980s) September, 2008 TRT: 5:24
Video link: https://youtu.be/2PpsXa2CUX8

Charles Town Horse Racing Pt. 1 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1980s) September, 2008 TRT: 3:33
Video link: https://youtu.be/1laVK8edLVs

Charles Town Horse Racing Pt. 2 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1980s) September, 2008 TRT: 5:46
Video link:https://youtu.be/isVjaSIj3-g

Charles Town Horse Racing Pt. 3 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1980s) September, 2008 TRT: 3:44
Video link: https://youtu.be/4IDvPfggM7Y

Charles Town Horse Racing Pt. 4 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1980s) September, 2008 TRT: 5:15
Video link: https://youtu.be/ii_RYxkLEMU

Charles Town and Martin Delany Pt. 1 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1980s) September, 2008 TRT: 6:51
Video link: https://youtu.be/HgH7Oi5nzCQ

More on this remarkable man from Charles Town at:
http://www.justjefferson.com/13Delany.htm
http://www.justjefferson.com/14Blake.htm

Major web site with his writings and timeline at:
http://web.archive.org/web/20031025161435/http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/delany/
http://web.archive.org/web/20110305144957/http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/delany/masint.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20110311052746/http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/delany/home.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20110130191709/http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/delany/maspt1.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20110303021438/http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/delany/maspt2.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20110130173343/http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/delany/maspt3.htm

Charles Town and Martin Delany Pt. 2 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1980s) September, 2008 TRT: 6:28
Video link: https://youtu.be/zH7w9G2opmI

Charles Town Film 1941 Pt. 1 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1980s) September, 2008 TRT: 3:42
Video link: https://youtu.be/0MNlugBl7ko

Charles Town Film 1941-10 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1980s) September, 2008 TRT: 4:49
Video link: https://youtu.be/WjOrMFPBuyU

Charles Town Film 1941-12 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1980s) September, 2008 TRT: 4:50
Video link: https://youtu.be/ixe6JD2f-Lg

The Great Sleigh Ride in Shepherdstown, WV – 1920s by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 2:48
Video link: https://youtu.be/adgJlVKc_Ks

Christmas Traditions in Jefferson County by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1980s) December, 2008 TRT: 4:58
Video link: https://youtu.be/9G9xZBzQbTY

How the Christmas Tree Got to Virginia by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1980s)December, 2008 TRT: 7:53
Video link: https://youtu.be/2hQKuf2KS4w

Moving Earth From Satellite (Originally mid-1980s)December, 2008 TRT: 5:17
Video link: https://youtu.be/FyNzNW9C6ng

Ring Tournament by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 2:53
Video link:https://youtu.be/dMkaZGwfr14

John Peale Bishop Pt. 1 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 5:43
Describes the great formative influence that writer John Peale Bishop had on young fellow Princeton undergrad, F. Scott Fitzgerald back in 1913 and how They remained friends for life. John Peale Bishop was from Charles Town and became the editor of Vanity Fair.
(Part 2 not available)
Video link: https://youtu.be/1JQ4zlAm24o

Circus in Shepherdstown 1881 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 6:32 (includes an error and is fixed in the January, 2009 version of the circus story).
Video link: https://youtu.be/ApK0Q_3p8C0

The Waddys Pt 1 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 8:20
Video link: https://youtu.be/dv9VY44H52I

The Waddys Pt 3 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 9:29
Video link: https://youtu.be/I3zP6_5L8qg

Shepherdstown May Day 1850 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 4:52
Video link: https://youtu.be/KmatW6g6ZEE

May Day Parade in Shepherdstown 2010 by Jim Surkamp May, 2010 TRT: 4:22
Video link: https://youtu.be/KocwLQ1ixv0

May Day Parade in Shepherdstown 2010 by Jim Surkamp May, 2010 TRT: 3:42
Video link: https://youtu.be/RHpStoLt6H8

Ben Franklin’s Swimming Lesson by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 4:32
Video link: https://youtu.be/AlEhhSzLKiQ

Shepherdstown’s Ghosts by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 5:55
Video link: https://youtu.be/CB-KNdM4hcQ

James Rumsey 1 – 1st Steamboat by Jim Surkamp (Originally late 1980s) December, 2008 TRT:7:23
Video link: https://youtu.be/4-dAkiJJP7s

James Rumsey 2 – 1st Steamboat by Jim Surkamp (Originally late 1980s) December, 2008 TRT: 7:43
Video link: https://youtu.be/fw-zmYeBz1Q

James Rumsey 3 – 1st Steamboat by Jim Surkamp (Originally late 1980s) December, 2008 TRT: 6:24
Video link: https://youtu.be/epdWtBVcFEI

Shepherdstown 1921 Pt 1 by Jim Surkamp (Originally late 1980s) December, 2008 TRT: 8:31
Video link: https://youtu.be/zpKSxdGOlgA

Shepherdstown 1921 Pt 2 by Jim Surkamp (Originally late 1980s) December, 2008 TRT: 9:12
Video link: https://youtu.be/EhozMD_hoFk

Shepherdstown 1921 Pt 3 by Jim Surkamp (Originally late 1980s) December, 2008 TRT: 10:19
Video link: https://youtu.be/cEFRr2amb38

Shepherdstown 1921 Pt 4 by Jim Surkamp (Originally late 1980s) December, 2008 TRT: 4:04
Video link: https://youtu.be/QTrTI1XHyTo

Conrad Shindler was a Shepherdstown coppersmith and ancestor of actress Mary Tyler Moore who visited Shepherdstown to commemorate the George Tyler Moore Center for the Civil War. She bought and donated that same building on German Street which had been the residence of the Shindlers in the early 1800s. When I sent her a free unsolcited copy of this video via Frederick, Md Cable who broadcast it, she wrote back: “May 13th, 1996 – I’m so touched by the impressive docu-video on the Shindlers. My gratitude and admiration are yours. My father will be impressed by it, too. Thank you! Sincerely Mary Tyler Moore”

Shepherdstown Shindlers Pt. 1 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008
TRT: 3:55
Video link: https://youtu.be/rQ1erL20Ulo

Shepherdstown Shindlers Pt. 2 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008
TRT: 5:44
Video link: https://youtu.be/q0XKZvPEGb8

Shepherdstown – Wm L. Reinhart by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 6:11
Video link: https://youtu.be/FEnT5tkJRx8

Shepherdstown – The Schleys Go Fishing – 1921 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 4:33
Video link: https://youtu.be/KsrsFhvaX6k

Shepherdstown – Bedford Burns 1864 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 6:19
Video link: https://youtu.be/I6sy5cZCeI8

General David Hunter Burns Fountain Rock in Shepherdstown, WV, by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 4:54
Video link: https://youtu.be/oTXHAsGV1hg

Bedford No More by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 5:34
Video link:https://youtu.be/7n2a6XFzH98

Shepherd Freshman – 1914 2 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008
TRT: 7:49
Video link:https://youtu.be/HQXIpWDYVP0

Shepherdstown – The Money Tree by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008
TRT: 6:28
Video link:https://youtu.be/TWxlzoHugs0

Thomas Shepherd Mill by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 9:10
CORRECTION: runner stones weighed about 1,200 pounds and for mills with less water power than this mill (this wheel had a forty foot wheel), the rotations of the runner stone achieved typically between 90 and 120 rpms. also, the runner store and bottom stone – as the runner stone moves rapidly – do NOT come into direct contact with each other but both make contact with the wheat grain being broken down by their weights.- JS
Video link: https://youtu.be/XyB-v5eUqM4

Shepherdstown – John Wesley Culp by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 6:15
Video link: https://youtu.be/nOUnUYB8GiU

Shepherdstown – Pack Horse Ford – 1862 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 4:25
Video link: https://youtu.be/1sGGg3hKDRM

Osborne Anderson Pt 1 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 5:29
Video link: https://youtu.be/QWQV3w2GY0k

Osborne Anderson Pt 2 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 6:05
Video link: https://youtu.be/Y6TUEZ_x5sM

Web sources on Martin Delany by Jim Surkamp

http://web.archive.org/web/20031025161435/http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/delany/

http://web.archive.org/web/20110305144957/http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/delany/masint.htm

http://web.archive.org/web/20110311052746/http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/delany/home.htm

http://web.archive.org/web/20110130191709/http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/delany/maspt1.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20110303021438/http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/delany/maspt2.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20110130173343/http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/delany/maspt3.htm

Martin Delany – 1 by Jim Surkamp TRT: 5:38 (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008
Video link: https://youtu.be/DBbR4_XVL9A

Martin Delany – 2 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 4:55
Video link: https://youtu.be/_IKkeh-oAJw

Martin Delany – 3 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 5:22
Video link: https://youtu.be/teETBYUQPXw

Martin Delany – 4 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 7:22
Video link: https://youtu.be/yoov745rJIQ

Martin Delany – 5 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 6:34
Video link:https://youtu.be/1FLy2e5k-lA

Martin Delany – 6 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 5:32
Video link: https://youtu.be/kmsREGq81F4

Martin Delany – 7 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 2:20
Video link: https://youtu.be/yfr5btQPF8M

Martin Delany – 8 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 4:17
Video link: https://youtu.be/8rdRT-_9mZE

Martin Delany – 9 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 5:37
Video link: https://youtu.be/PRmGweOo5A0

Martin Delany – 10 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 6:01
Video link:https://youtu.be/hdeCu7a4pww

Martin Delany – 11 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 4:29
Video link: https://youtu.be/6Hj9nWbIfIo

John Yates Beall, Edwin Gray Lee and Daniel Lucas Become Men (1) by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 5:58
Video link: https://youtu.be/5lECcZBphVU

John Yates Beall Is A Civil War Privateer – Pt. 2 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 6:11
Video link: https://youtu.be/Q9KisyFRnfw

John Yates Beall Plots to “Free” Johnson Island Prison – 3 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 5:58
Video link: https://youtu.be/OjBCsquCnLs

John Yates Beall Must Hang – 4 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 5:36
Video link: https://youtu.be/qT8gfn5l1ME

John Yates Beall – 5 – by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 4:28
Video link: https://youtu.be/Y6KN5ouQpJA

John Yates Beall – Woe is Us! How Strange and Sad! – Pt. 6 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 3:19
Video link: https://youtu.be/5DfUdeVtQ5k

Peter Stephens, Harpers Ferry’s first settler – 1 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 3:34
Video link:https://youtu.be/GOccCEe49v8

Peter Stephens, Harpers Ferry’s first settler – 2 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 4:14
Video link: https://youtu.be/fLey1lU1oHs

Peter Stephens, Harpers Ferry’s first settler – 3 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 4:48
Video link:https://youtu.be/bMuZbVrrvyU

Childrens Haven – Mom Wheeler Remembers – 1 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 5:43
Video link: https://youtu.be/CAPTtBs6OwQ

Childrens Haven – Mom Wheeler Remembers – 2 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 3:25
Video link: https://youtu.be/EgDv44kWsMA

Childrens Haven – Mom Wheeler Remembers – 3 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 5:10
Video link: https://youtu.be/33y3odb5qFE

Childrens Haven – Mom Wheeler Remembers – 4 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) December, 2008 TRT: 5:11
Video link: https://youtu.be/PnuBRnh4w1I

West African Origins of Southern Cooking by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 4:18
Video link: https://youtu.be/Kekvufbq2GQ

Robin Young Paints Shepherdstown’s Past by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 4:50
Video link: https://youtu.be/aDZYkmNUpIY

Cavalry Battle down the Kearneysville Pike – 1864 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 5:38
Video link: https://youtu.be/WYpnRvsR3o8

JEB Stuart’s Month at The Bower – 1862 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 5:15
Video link: https://youtu.be/bY3oe4Cp3a8

Charles Town – Roy Hooe: Lindbergh’s Mechanic by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 5:34
Video link: https://youtu.be/XmuW3lePyEo

Frontier Iron-Making by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 7:33
Video link: https://youtu.be/rxK1Ol-SqHQ

The Ghost of Ike Stipp – 1 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 4:36
Video link: https://youtu.be/8SzgeceFKeM

The Ghost of Shepherdstown’s Ike Stipp – 2 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT:5:07
Video link: https://youtu.be/Iml4927fqh8

Hog Homage – 2 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 5:06
Video link: https://youtu.be/bJ1uzkkp-EM (Hog Homage – 1 not available)

Wizards Clip – 1 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 5:35
The trouble of Wizards Clip prompted the Catholic Church’s first house exorcism in North America.
Video link: https://youtu.be/AOPCk2O9c5Y

Wizards Clip – 2 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 4:38
Video link: https://youtu.be/cWY6vbjkfqs

Wizards Clip – 3 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 6:38
Video link: https://youtu.be/LFvSoSvRyig

Harpers Ferry Flood – 1870 – 1 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT:4:13
Video link:https://youtu.be/lgXvO8bpcwM

Harpers Ferry Flood – 1870 – 2 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009
TRT: 5:36
Video link: https://youtu.be/k-mNWKhw3p0

Oh Shenandoah – 1 – by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 5:42
The serpentine, beloved river flows thru time and we follow its story. Ardyth Gilbertson sings.
Video link:https://youtu.be/datMYvC93X8

Oh Shenandoah – 2 – by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 4:44
Video link: https://youtu.be/nQOmtXGAa0s

Our Pre-History – by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 5:46
Back when our earth was exploding, splitting and taking form, we follow how the mountains and trees and wildlife came to be in Jefferson County.
Video link: https://youtu.be/pEMKIDsBy6k

Early Tribal Life 1 – by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 6:24
Jefferson County had many palisaded villages along its rivers.
Video link: https://youtu.be/r5tQUR7diak

Early Tribal Life 2 – by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 7:09
Jefferson County was called The Barrens. Many tribes left before Europeans arrived.
Video link: https://youtu.be/g9zd6kUAGGc

Lederer’s Diary – by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 7:45
Early diary of Virginia explorer John Lederer in the 17th century.
Video link:https://youtu.be/RTUY3qWUqKQ

Promised Land Bound 1 – by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 7:12
Describes from a diary the Atlantic crossing to the New World.
Video link: https://youtu.be/GZ46Fg1PR5s

Promised Land Bound 2 – by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 2:06
Video link: https://youtu.be/UAsumESUN64

NAACP Begins – 1 – by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 5:54
The second Niagara Movement meeting at Harpers Ferry in 1906 launched the NAACP.
Video link: https://youtu.be/RcJEbvlGLSY

NAACP Begins – 2 – by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 5:11
Video link: https://youtu.be/cABfIUWPkwE

Haying – Swing That Scythe – by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 7:30
How the fertile grain fields in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania led to inventions for handling the hay.
Video link: https://youtu.be/nsXtWFY3KSo

Stonewall’s Train Trick May-June, 1861 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 3:57
Stonewall Jackson thru trickery grabbed dozens of locomotives and hundreds of coal cars from the B&O in the eastern Panhandle in 1861.
Video link: https://youtu.be/nsTm2hMn29Y

Shannondale Springs by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 4:50
The glamorous, langorous heyday of the Shannondale Springs resort along the Shenandoah River near Harpers Ferry, Virginia
Video link:https://youtu.be/1OhxU-eaiNI

The Worst Drought – 1 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 6:25
1930 was Jefferson County’s driest, hottest year on record.
Video link: https://youtu.be/ldTNeyaz23Y

Thomas Jefferson at Harpers Ferry 1783 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 2:16
When he said the view is worth “the crossing of the Atlantic.”
Video link:https://youtu.be/lUDEEeqOwFQ

CORRECTED Washington Diary – 1 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 4:22
CORRECTION: At 0:47 image is that of Admiral Edward “Old Grog” Vernon, not GW. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Vernon. Young George Washington kept a diary as he surveyed thru Jefferson County,Virginia in the 1740s. Read by Ernest Johnson.
Video link: https://youtu.be/nr9W6I8uHYY

Washingtons Diary – 2 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 6:26
Young George Washington got his first dose of the frontier when he surveyed in 1748. Read by Ernest Johnson.
Video link: https://youtu.be/OgoJxdGATr4

1st Rural Mail Delivery by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 6:39
Postmaster General William Lyne Wilson tried out Rural Free Delivery in Jefferson County, West Virginia before it became a service nationwide for many years.
Video link: https://youtu.be/jGAum9weUB8

United States of Whiskey 1 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 6:16
People drank three times more booze than people today up until about 1810 when the law cracked down.
Video link: https://youtu.be/JOHHI2eSAdE

United States of Whiskey 2 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 6:25
Video link: https://youtu.be/as7C7-myAuI

Washingtons Masonic Cave by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 5:24
George Washington took part in the first Masonic Order meeting west of the Blue Ridge in this cave in Jefferson County.
Video link:https://youtu.be/ze2XaKuQX9Q

Beeline March – 1 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 5:25
Virginia’s first riflemen marched 600 miles in 25 days from Shepherdstown to join the Continental Army in 1775.
Video link:https://youtu.be/x5Uca5EkKtw

Beeline March – 2 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 4:39
Video link: https://youtu.be/8LrkTrGXrO4

Ice Cream’s Origins by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 6:05
Where ice cream came from to enrich our lives.
Video link: https://youtu.be/lFdpudbGGyY

Patsy Cline – A Star is Born by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 8:11
How the greatest woman singer in country music was found and launched in Jefferson County.
Video link: https://youtu.be/_jvjelkf_Jg

Jefferson Ag – 1890s by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 5:53
The thriving farm community of Jefferson County, West Virginia in the 1890s.
Video link: https://youtu.be/hMV9yLxL1X8

John Brown’s Smooch by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 7:28
Did John Brown really kiss an enslaved, black baby on his way to be hanged? Are the painting and the poem true?
Video link: https://youtu.be/PYlLH8QVYYo

Turkey Hunting in Civil War by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 5:45
Heros Von Borcke goes turkey hunting on the Opequon near The Bower in Jefferson County.
Video link: https://youtu.be/x4R67sY1N9o

The Bower & Von Borcke by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 4:46
JEB Stuart’s executive officer, Heros Von Borcke, recalled the month they all encamped at the legendary Bower in Jefferson, then-Virginia.
Video link:https://youtu.be/bDMALCxY72o

Hack Wilson’s Inspiration by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 6:29
Hack Wilson, holder of the 191 RBI major league record, was inspired as a boy by the story of Dick Whittington. Video link: https://youtu.be/jJ34RUAfTmQ

Last Washington to Own Mt. Vernon Killed at War, Sept., 1861 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 5:52
The last in his family to own Mt.Vernon, John Augustine Washington, as Confederate Lt. Col. on Gen Lee’s staff, fell from a sniper’s bullet in the woods of West Virginia in 1861.
Video link: https://youtu.be/SQKlL0vRlvk

Peter Burr House by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 5:29
The oldest wood frame house in West Virginia has been preserved.
Video link: https://youtu.be/gXxy1xj0goE

Adam Stephen – 1 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 1:12
AT THIS LINK IS AN EXTREMELY COMPREHENSIVE SOURCE ON ADAM STEPHEN, ESP. HIS LONG TERM CORRESPONDENCE WITH GEORGE WASHINGTON – JS
Video link: https://web.archive.org/web/20030126124251/http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/adamstephen/

Made possible with the support of the Adam Stephen House.

Credits to the following video about George Washington’s executive officer for over twenty years, founder of Martinsburg, and Revolutionary War major general.
Video link: https://youtu.be/mWNl-gENN6M

Adam Stephen – 2 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 4:08
Video link: https://youtu.be/AKHfWU_TOoM

Adam Stephen – 3 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT:5:36
Video link: https://youtu.be/QforSev-QWw

Adam Stephen – 3a by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 7:19
Video link: https://youtu.be/aiRx6_hnj5g

Adam Stephen – 4 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 5:10
Video link: https://youtu.be/c_CRUjVANiM

Adam Stephen – 5 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 3:32
On the eve of the American Revolution, Adam Stephen and Washington assemble the first Virginians to go to war.
Video link: https://youtu.be/UBA6MheB4dw

Adam Stephen – 6 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 5:27
Adam Stephen falls from being major general to being court martialed – a review which he imprudently demanded himself. https://youtu.be/gEz48EE-2SM

Adam Stephen – 7 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 4:14
Part of Adam Stephens final remarks at the Virginia Constitutional Convention – The Constitution was ratified by ten votes or the decisions of five of the delegates,the western counties led by Stephen and William Darke provided the winning margin. He also tried to establish the nation’s capital in Shepherdstown. By Jim Surkamp Bill Caldwell Actor
Video link: https://youtu.be/JeLCN8TB6IA

Adam Stephen – 8 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 4:42
Video link: https://youtu.be/LhwcxS0gFA8

Mosby’s Greenback Raid, Oct., 1864 at Quincey’s Siding WV by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January, 2009 TRT: 7:00 Partisan John Singleton Mosby did his daring Greenback raid near Wiltshire Road in Kearneysville, (today) West Virginia) in 1864, netting about $170,000, period money.
Video link: https://youtu.be/lxg1y4TpxXI
SEE the more recent 36-minute video about the Greenback Raid with Steve French at https://youtu.be/Rqz4rTSd5D0

Circus in Shepherdstown 1881 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1990s) January 9, 2009 TRT: 7:29
Video link: https://youtu.be/CFviJKLWx0I

Shepherdstown Sunday Farmers Market by Jim Surkamp July, 2009
Five of many vendors at the weekly Sunday morning Farmers Market at Shepherdstown, WV – Amy speaks for Peace of Cake; Bill Grantham sells produce from Tudor Hall Farms, Erland offers greens from New Hope Farm; Gregorio offers gazpacho and cheese; Rivas Salsa de Mexico; Maggie Weber is a flower cutter
TRT: 3:35
Video link: https://youtu.be/TZJ-5-pTJOk

Shepherdstown Sunday Farmers Market 2 by Jim Surkamp July, 2009 TRT: 4:27
Video link: https://youtu.be/b33jiLLtwHc

Shepherdstown Market 3 by Jim Surkamp July, 2009
Paul Elliott of Uvilla Farms and Peach Orchard, The James family of the organic produce farm called Blueberry Hill Neal Super, owner of Earth Choice products, including food grade rain barrels, water purifiers, locally refined and tapped maple syrup; Danny Noland of Middleway Farms with perennial and annual flowering plants and produce; Joyce Keys offers hardy perennials. Music by members of the Speakeasy Boys.
TRT: 5:40
Video link: https://youtu.be/2FjJCLaJcOU

Farmers Market Year ‘Round by Jim Surkamp July, 2009 TRT: 2:09
Video link: https://youtu.be/PWkNxvBAtn8

Charles Town Farmers Market 1 by Jim Surkamp July, 2009 TRT: 3:01
Video link: https://youtu.be/GD77g1yF-fE

Charles Town Farmers Market 2 by Jim Surkamp July, 2009 TRT: 2:04
Video link: https://youtu.be/crFdOGFrnxQ

Charles Town Farmers Market 3 by Jim Surkamp July, 2009 TRT: 5:42
Video link: https://youtu.be/1O9O76YYHd4

John Brown Raid Descendants Speak at 150th Oct., 2009 by Jim Surkamp
The great, great, great grand-daughter of John Brown, and the great great great grand-niece of John Copeland and another descendant of John Brown talk about their ancestors who were hanged in Charles Town, Va (now WV) in 1859 following the John Brown Raid on Harpers Ferry at Charles Town during the 150th anniversary of the John Brown Raid in 1859.
TRT: 9:41
Video link: https://youtu.be/sSsx1Ebz5Qw

John Brown Hanging 2009 by Jim Surkamp Oct., 2009
A solemn observance of John Brown at his gallows, horses, wagon, comment, trumpet solo in recognition of the 150th anniversary of his hanging December 2nd in 1859 in Charles Town.
TRT: 7:01
Video link: https://youtu.be/K1jnnRPuM-E

Born To Run by Jim Surkamp May, 2010
Christopher McDougall, author Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (9780307266309): enjoys a fun run on the C&O Canal in Shepherdstown May 7th, 2010 with friends and Dr. Mark Cucuzzella. Talks about his special running shoes.
TRT: 4:28
Video link: https://youtu.be/28Vmoehx5o0

Christopher McDougall in Shepherdstown by Jim Surkamp May, 2010
Christopher McDougall, author Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (9780307266309): talks with runners and friends at Mellow Moods in Shepherdstown May 7th, 2010 along with Dr. Mark Cucuzzella.
TRT: 8:50
Video link: https://youtu.be/7-jThMRPr70

Christopher McDougall in Shepherdstown by Jim Surkamp May, 2010 TRT: 9:11
Video link:https://youtu.be/kVIs8M3FQ9k

Shenandoah River in 1997 by Jim Surkamp May, 2010 TRT: 7:23
Video link: https://youtu.be/GoBBkdQUttY

Beeline March from Shepherdstown to Boston summer, 1775 by Jim Surkamp TRT: 5:25
One of the two first companies of volunteers from Virginia left Shepherdstown in July, 1775 to join their old comrade George Washington in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Called the Beeline march.
Video link: https://youtu.be/zVXE4-7hbEY

Ardyth Gilbertson, Ralph Gordon & Joe Bourgeois from Cable TV and Jim Surkamp in about 1997 TRT: 3:00
Performing If They Asked Me, I Could Write A Book
Video link: https://youtu.be/lFVFtU_Ett4

Ardyth Gilbertson, Ralph Gordon (bass) & Joe Bourgeois (guitar) by Frederick Cable and Jim Surkamp in about 1997 TRT: 5:18
Performing My Romance and East of the Sun and West of the Moon
TRT: 5:18
Video link: https://youtu.be/7cdSI84a284

Ardyth Gilbertson, Ralph Gordon & Joe Bourgeois by Frederick Cable and Jim Surkamp in about 1997
Performing East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Angel Eyes, If they Asked Me, I Could Write a Book, My Romance
TRT: 13:47
Video link: https://youtu.be/t0QXRYJ4NGA

Osborne Anderson 1 by Jim Surkamp March, 2011 TRT: 5:29
Freed black Osborne Anderson escaped from the Harpers Ferry raid site in 1859 and wrote the only account by a surviving raider of what happened
Video link: https://youtu.be/QWQV3w2GY0k

Osborne Anderson 2 by Jim Surkamp March, 2011 TRT: 6:05
Video link: https://youtu.be/Y6TUEZ_x5sM

The Escape of Osborne Anderson & the John Brown Raid by Jim Surkamp March, 2011 TRT: 6:25
Video link: https://youtu.be/X9KlfB3SXLY

Battle sounds at Gettysburg by Jim Surkamp TRT: 1:39 March, 2011 TRT: 1:39
Video link: https://youtu.be/iES4DgAauV0

THE FIRE COMPANIES OF JEFFERSON COUNTY – MEMBERS

Howard Whitmore Pt. 1 by Jim Surkamp March, 2011 Citizens Fire Company, Independent Fire Company, Charles Town, West Virginia
TRT: 9:35
Video link: https://youtu.be/gvWym1Vc2mE

Howard Whitmore Pt. 2 by Jim Surkamp March, 2011
TRT: 12:28
Video link: https://youtu.be/F3DLCOqeT2w

Howard Whitmore Pt. 3 by Jim Surkamp March, 2011
TRT: 5:31
Video link: https://youtu.be/W4_bGdQZHW8

Buck Willingham of Citizens Fire Company by Jim Surkamp March, 2011 TRT: 11:21
Video link: https://youtu.be/kcGjTrduk1k

Glenn Ramsburg Citizens Fire Co. by Jim Surkamp March, 2011 TRT: 8:11
Video link: https://youtu.be/tg1K1pceYZU

Ed Smith Independent Fire Co. Pt. 1 by Jim Surkamp March, 2011 TRT: 11:26
Video link: https://youtu.be/3zowkxQvC1o

Ed Smith, Independent Fire Co. Pt. 2 by Jim Surkamp March, 2011 TRT: 3:35
Video link: https://youtu.be/ahqBg5g-GpY

Ed Smith, Independent FIre Company Pt. 3 by Jim Surkamp March, 2011 TRT: 2:41
Video link: https://youtu.be/qymvaFIrrP8

Don Clendenning, Independent Fire Company by Jim Surkamp March, 2011 TRT: 13:34
http://independentfirecompany.org/

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joined in 1961 – ambulance, fire-fighter training officer, vice-president, president in 1972-2002 – never forget the old Wright Denny School Fire -Dewey Perks was a lieutenant – whole roof fell in on us – large timber hit my helmut – ambulance called to deliver their infant for them, I was involved with seven of those deliveries – Miller Chemical Fire we lost one of our men -obviously something we will never forget – when in old Independent bldg on George Street – 1990s we were able to purchase our present address – we did a lot of the interior renovation – fortunate to be named in wills – very careful with finances – river rescue used to be just finding the body, not the modern equipment – motel swimming pool drowning looked enough like a twin to my oldest daughter – Independent fortunate to retain people long enough to learn the fire services – state and our own requirements – we have speed limit safety rules.
Video link: https://youtu.be/ku9iQLWbHgg

Danny Mills, Citizens Fire by Jim Surkamp March, 2011
http://citizensfirecompany.com/
joined in January 1966 – lifelong resident – Frank Weller best teacher I had – first early impression of fire company – the most tragic fire was in Ranson (a trailer fire) in ’67 between Third and Fourth Avenue – most spectacular fire was the Wright Denny fire, went on for 24 hours –
the toy factory fire was another 24 hours, the first time I saw a fire tornado – the night six people died at Locust Hill – State’s Section 1 was Mr. Frank Weller’s pre-basic course almost word-for-word – best chief I ever served under was Mr. Kenny Willingham – ’29 Chevrolet fire truck – ’37 Seagrave Aerial Truck – ’64 International – ’52 International – ’63 Mack – ’60 Ward-LaFrance – FWD – ’91 Pierce – ’72 Chevy Box – ’76 Suburban – ’89 Rescue.
TRT: 11:21
Video link: https://youtu.be/HYEkgWGbmw8

Alice Clendenning, head of Independent Fire Auxiliary, Charles Town, Ranson, WV by Jim Surkamp March, 2011
http://independentfirecompany.org/
began in 1920s earlier was made up of women, now 18 active members men and women – food trailers at special events, run bingo, serve breakfast at larger fires, “a lot of work, but also a lot of fun.” – one volunteer called “The Energizer Bunny.” A way for those who are not able to physically be an active fire person or active EMS person but we can support the organization in other ways. 11:26 “They put their life on the line, when they go out.”
TRT: 11:26
Video link: https://youtu.be/zmimzc7PZh4

Gettysburg Moments by Jim Surkamp April, 2011 TRT: 1:39
From the powerful and moving accounts of Col. Huidekoper facing the amputation table, Sallie Myers being forever changed by her experiences
TRT: 1:39
Video link: https://youtu.be/PHBSuzDOSOw

Civil War Sounds & Memories by Jim Surkamp April, 2011 TRT: 9:15
Features people from Civil War-era Jefferson County (then Va.) – black leader Martin Delany from Charles Town; Confederate Spy John Yates Beall, Henrietta Bedinger Lee and Mary Bedinger Mitchell of Shepherdstown. Thanks to Actors Margie Didden, Ardyth Gilbertson, Sonny Luckett – all of Jefferson County; and the late Hubert Rolling and Norman MacKenzie. Thanks to Seth Austen for soundtrack. copyright, Jim Surkamp
TRT: 9:15
Video link: https://youtu.be/1fY2txH3Y4A

9-11 World Trade: Exhibit #P200336, “They Are Us” by Jim Surkamp August, 2011
TRT: 5:03
Video link: https://youtu.be/K6Du3pDyKpA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:P200336.jpg
Music by Steve Schneider and Paul Oorts
http://steveschneider.com/momentum.html
Exhibit #P200336 from the United States v. Zacarias Moussaoui Criminal trial No. 01-455-A – A collage of photographs of almost 3,000 victims, nearly all of those who were killed during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 (missing are 92 of the victims and all of the terrorists). (USDOJ)

JACK SNYDER RAILROAD HISTORIAN
Joseph P. “Jack” Snyder’s new book: Baltimore and Ohio: The Passenger Trains and Services of America’s First Common-Carrier Railroad, 1827-1971 [Hardcover]
http://www.amazon.com/Baltimore-Ohio-Passenger-Common-Carrier-1827-1971/dp/0692018794/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1358442840&sr=1-1&keywords=Joseph+Snyder+B%26O

The B&O’s early days by “Jack” Snyder prepared by Jim Surkamp March, 2012

Scholar Joseph “Jack” Snyder of Shepherdstown, WV gives an overview of the history of the Baltimore & Ohio leading up to the Civil War:

TRANSCRIPT:
My name is Jack Snyder. I am a writer and historian living in West Virginia. The year is 2012. I’m going to talk today about the history of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from 1827, when it began to the end of the Civil War in 1865 and we’re going to cover the area between Baltimore, Maryland and the Midwest, including some of the events of the Civil War. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad of the United States – “common carrier” means that it was designed to carry both freight and passengers. It was inaugurated in Baltimore, given legal existence in the year 1827. This was done in imitation of a railroad in England called the Stockton and Darlington, which was a 25-mile long railroad in western England, designed to carry coal from inland coal mines to the seacoast, where it could be exported. The Baltimore & Ohio, however, was designed for much more than that, it was designed to carry both freight and passengers and it was intended from the very beginning to travel the distance from Baltimore to the Ohio River, a distance of 379 miles and it finally reached the Ohio River twenty-five years after it began in the year 1852.

The importance of the Baltimore Ohio Railroad is greater than it would first appear to be. It was one of many railroads being initiated in that era but it adopted from the very beginning the standard gauge of the English railroads, which was four feet, eight-and-a-half inches. That may sound like an arbitrary number, but that number actually has deep historical roots. It was derived from the distance between the wheels on standard Roman wagons and carts from the heyday of the Roman empire 2000 years ago and it proved to be very effective and successful and is still widely in use today, not only in the United States but in other countries as well. The railroad, as I said, began in 1827 and by 1831 it began its first regular passenger train service to the small industrial city Ellicott Mills – Ellicott’s Mills, I should say – just outside Baltimore to the west on the Patapsco River. By 1832, the railroad had reached Frederick, Maryland. Frederick, of course, is a good deal inland, and was the second city in Maryland – still is – after Baltimore. By 1836 the Baltimore Ohio railroad had progressed to Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. This of course was before the state of West Virginia which only came into existence during the Civil War. And by 1842, the B&O had reached Cumberland, Maryland, a distance of about 200 miles from its origin point in Baltimore.

TRT: 7:45
Video link:https://youtu.be/UPytfrkBXts
Made possible with the support of American Public University System.

“Jack” Snyder explains the early B&O railroad prepared by Jim Surkamp Pt. 2 March, 2012

Joseph P. “Jack” Snyder’s new book: Baltimore and Ohio: The Passenger Trains and Services of America’s First Common-Carrier Railroad, 1827-1971 [Hardcover]
http://www.amazon.com/Baltimore-Ohio-Passenger-Common-Carrier-1827-1971/dp/0692018794/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1358442840&sr=1-1&keywords=Joseph+Snyder+B%26O

TRANSCRIPT: Another form of transportation which had been inaugurated by George Washington – the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal – which eventually reached Cumberland about five years after the B&O Railroad got there and throughout most the 19th century the two forms of transportation were in deep competition until eventually the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad won out and took over the canal. The railroad proved to be an extremely important form of transportation not just for passengers who were the dominant money- maker part of the railroad in the early days. They were quickly supplanted by the importance of freight transportation. The B&O railroad hauled agricultural produce from inland points to the Port of Baltimore and the wheat being grown in this area – the mid-Atlantic – wheat was particularly prized in international commerce in those days. It held up very well in transportation and so it commanded premium prices and the wealth generated by huge exports of wheat provided a great deal of money for the improvement of the areas that provided the wheat. That was particularly true here in Jefferson County, which is the focus of what we’re going to talk about today. In fact, many of the fine houses and plantations that were built in this area were a direct result of the wealth pouring in from the transport of wheat during that period which is a period when a great deal of wheat was being demanded in Europe as a result of population growth and economic growth. The passenger side of it was very important to enable people to move quickly between the coast and inland points and this in itself resulted in tremendous economic growth. When the B&O Railroad reached Wheeling, Virginia in 1852, the transport of commodities had been very expensive. Everything was done by Road up to that point and the cost of transporting a ton of goods of any kind, whether it was agricultural commodities or finished products was a hundred dollars a ton using wagons and teamsters over the National Road. Well. when the B&O got to Wheeling, Virginia in 1852, the price of shipping a ton of goods or commodities dropped from a hundred dollars a ton to five dollars a ton. You can readily imagine what a tremendous effect this had on commerce between the Ohio River area and the East Coast and similarly it was possible then for passengers to travel from Wheeling to Baltimore and Baltimore to Wheeling overnight. In those days, an express train left Wheeling, Virginia about five o’clock in the evening and arrived in Baltimore about nine o’clock the next morning. By 1857 the Baltimore and Ohio was able to offer through transportation across Ohio and Indiana using connecting railroads in those states all the way to St. Louis and commerce really began to pick up because until that point most of the major transportation routes were based on rivers and roads and the railroad was able to offer faster, cheaper, more efficient transport to everybody for both freight and passengers. 514 words
TRT: 4:14
Video link: https://youtu.be/bd_ID_8lK70
Made possible with the support of American Public University System.

“Jack” Snyder On the B&O and Lincoln’s Overlooked Role as the Railroad Visionary by Jim Surkamp March, 2012

TRANSCRIPT: During the Civil War, the railroad was the effective lifeline for federal operations between Baltimore and Washington and the Midwest. As it happened, it went through part of rebel territory in Virginia which caused enormous problems operationally and politically and militarily, not only for the railroad but also for the federal government. There were many raids on the railroad during the Civil War. One of the famous raiders was John Singleton Mosby who was a Confederate colonel. But he was not the only one, there was another man by the name of Harry Gilmor who operated in the area around Jefferson County and the West Virginia Panhandle; and these raids had the tendency to upset and interdict the operations of the railroad itself, and in some cases, the railroad was out of operation for a fairly hefty period of time.

One of the things that happened was that one of J.E.B. Stuart’s lieutenants, a man by the name of Thomas R. Sharp, carried off Baltimore and Ohio locomotives from the city of Martinsburg and took them on wagons partly disassembled into the South where they were used on Southern railroads, about eighteen of them, I think, during the war. The B&O eventually got all of those locomotives back minus one at the end of the war, which had been destroyed. And, Thomas R. Sharp, who by then was a colonel, was actually hired by the B&O railroad to be its Master of Transportation at the end of the war. So, I guess that was a case of “If they can beat you, hire them.”

In any case, the railroad system of the United States had developed quite substantially before the war. By the time the Civil War started in 1861, the United States had more miles of railroad than all the other countries of the world combined, including those in Europe, and building railroads was the key to economic progress and improvement in the United States all during that period and subsequently.

The great planner of railroads during the Civil War was none other than the president, Abraham Lincoln, who had been a railroad lawyer in Springfield, Illinois before the war and had a grand vision for what needed to be done with the railroad in the United States. In 1862, he caused to be passed by Congress, the Pacific Railroad Act, which was later amended in 1864 and 1866. This act essentially authorized the extension of the railroad system of the United States throughout the western part of the United States which at that time had no railroads. So that, I think you could fairly say, that Abraham Lincoln was the chief planner and chief railroad visionary of his time. We’ve all heard a great deal about Lincoln’s Administration and the freeing of the slaves and the conduct of the Civil War which was tremendously important; but few people seem to know how important Lincoln’s vision for the expansion of the railroad system was and his vision included using the B&O railroad as the model – with its standard gauge of four-feet, eight-and-a-half inches – which was adopted in the Pacific Railroad Act. And, in fact, after the Civil War, all the railroads of the United States were re-gauged to that standard gauge even though many of them had begun as small local operations with very different gauges. So, in a sense, the B&O railroad was not only the major lifeline for the Union forces during the Civil War, operating between the East coast and the Midwest, but it was also the crucial model for the subsequent development of the national railroad system.

TRT: 4:30
Video link: https://youtu.be/yDwUBr5gLY0
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“Jack” Snyder and John Brown’s Mistake with the B&O at Harpers Ferry, Va 1859 by Jim Surkamp March 2012

TRANSCRIPT: The seminal event on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad in 1859 was the raid by abolitionist John Brown on Harper’s Ferry where the federal armory – one of two federal armories the other was in Springfield, Massachusetts – was located. What happened on this occasion was that Brown and his men moved from their farmstead in Maryland across the river from Harper’s Ferry into Harper’s Ferry on the night October 16, 1859, and they attempted to take control of the town of Harper’s Ferry and the federal armory.
The B&O train from Wheeling to Baltimore made a brief stop in Martinsburg for crew change, replenishment of water and fuel and then it came on to Harper’s Ferry in the middle of the night. It was stopped in Harper’s Ferry about two o’clock in the morning of October 17, 1859. One of the things that happened very quickly is that one of the B&O railroad employees, a porter by the name of Heyward Shepherd, was shot by one of Brown’s men and died several hours later. As many of you will know, the raid was aimed at upsetting the plantation aristocracy and causing revolt of black slaves. And momentarily, it looked like it might succeed. However, the train was released the next morning by Brown and his men about six o’clock in the morning men October 17, 1859 and the conductor of the train, a man by the name of Andrew Phelps, boarded his train and got to the next station where there was a telegraph office and he alerted the managers of the B&O railroad in Baltimore what was happening. They at first did not believe him. And when he got to the next station, there was a message waiting for him and he replied to that that the situation was even more serious than what he had told them in his first message. When he got to Baltimore, he took one of the passengers who had been held hostage at Harper’s Ferry, temporarily, and he reported to the Master of Transportation on the railroad, a man by the name of William Prescott Smith and the president of the railroad at the time, John W. Garrett, was also present. He had been elected president in 1858. Once they understood the nature of the situation at Harper’s Ferry, they immediately contacted federal authorities and the secretary of war, John B. Floyd, summoned Robert E. Lee and one of his lieutenants, J.E.B. Stuart, who put together a group of soldiers, including a detachment of Marines under the command of Israel Green and took the train to Baltimore, and then over to Harper’s Ferry as quickly as they could. They very quickly defeated John Brown and his men and took them prisoner. And as you know Brown was later tried and hanged in Charlestown, Virginia on December 2, 1859. This turned out to be a rather minor incident in terms affecting the railroad and affecting military operations and policy of the United States. But it had a much wider effect in that it was widely reported nationally and internationally and caused a great outburst of feeling and indignation. And it really was effectively the kick-off – the curtain raiser you might say – to the Civil War itself which began in the spring of 1861.

TRT: 4:41
Video link: https://youtu.be/Ioz-IKtElhg
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5.”Jack” Snyder – The B&O Model Was Key to American Prosperity by Jim Surkamp March, 2012

TRANSCRIPT:
In any case, what happened is that the B&O railroad managed to deal with all its difficulties from raids and from natural disasters. There were three big floods at Harper’s Ferry during the Civil War, which wiped out the bridges there. And those were re-built and railroad operations continued. The B&O railroad was crucial in moving large bodies of federal troops from the East to into places like Tennessee and Kentucky during the war, which were absolutely crucial in the ultimate victory of the Union forces. And so by the end of the war, the B&O was functioning very well and had overcome its difficulties and was one of four major trunk line railroads which were developed and expanding. From north-to-south, those four trunk line railroads were the New York Central in the north, in New York, and westward into the Midwest; the Erie Railroad which ran just south of the New York Central; then the Pennsylvania Railroad operating in Pennsylvania proper; and then the B&O Railroad which was the southernmost of the four main railroads. Partly as a result of its difficulties during the Civil War, the B&O was slow to expand into the Midwest, slower than the other three railroads to the north of it. But it eventually succeeded, and it reached Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania after the Civil War, and then it finally made it to Chicago in 1872. But here, in this part of what became West Virginia – and that happened 20th of June, 1863 during the Civil War – West Virginia itself became a state, separated from the state of Virginia, and that was primarily brought about by the B&O railroad, which used its corporate will to essentially propagate and promulgate the idea of West Virginia becoming a separate state, which made it a great deal less troublesome for the railroad to operate through what had been rebel territory and most of the people in West Virginia were more sympathetic to the Union than the aristocrat planters in the southern part of Virginia, which of course was very much opposed to the Union. So the point is the agricultural development, the economic development, and the social and cultural development of the United States in general, and more specifically in the eastern Panhandle area of West Virginia was crucially supported by the B&O railroad. A branch-line railroad that met the B&O at Harper’s Ferry and this is called the Winchester and Potomac. That had been developed at the same time the B&O railroad was created, and it proved not to be as successful a money-maker as the B&O railroad itself. So the directors of that railroad persuaded the B&O to take over the operations of it in the late 1840s although the B&O railroad did not take formal legal control of Winchester-Potomac Railroad until after the Civil War in 1867; but both of those pieces of railroad were enormously important here, and continue to be so until the present-day. It is certainly true that the railroads were the absolute key to the industrial and political development and formalization of the United States itself during the Civil War and after, and remains so today. The American standard of living is very high and it’s absolutely crucial to have the railroad system operating because it carries about forty per cent of the freight that is carried throughout the United States on a daily basis. I think we could say that the Baltimore and Ohio railroad was enormously important in all this, and continues to be so today even though it is now part of a larger industrial/railroad combination called CSX. So, thank you very much.

TRT: 5:18
Video link: https://youtu.be/3zAOKL_0fWk
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The B&O – May-June, 1861 – The Molten Pyres of the Camel Engines by Jim Surkamp April, 2012 TRT: 19:02
Video link: https://youtu.be/DgLp6m1vRcc
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Dennis Frye: Stonewall is Stopped, Harper’s Ferry May 30, 1862 by Jim Surkamp May, 2012
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Dennis Fry: (in closing)
This was, perhaps, one of the first instances that the United States will use the railroad in a rapid troop deployment – to move troops during an emergency from one location – Washington, in this case – to another – Harper’s Ferry – to stop an enemy advance. They succeed. If it had not been for the railroad, there was no way they could have gotten those Union soldiers out here quickly, and Jackson, indeed, probably would have forced the evacuation of Harper’s Ferry and cleared the Shenandoah Valley of all Union soldiers. Only here was Stonewall Jackson stopped.
TRT: 15:43
Video link: https://youtu.be/5-_EvbXYSj0
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They Moved 18 Locomotives 38 Miles . . . With No Rail! (1861-2) by Jim Surkamp June, 2012
The remarkable story of how men and horses managed to move 18, captured, 50-ton locomotives down the 38 miles stretch from Martinsburg, Va. to Strasburg, Va under order of Gen. Stonewall Jackson – in the summer and fall of 1861 and into early 1862.
TRT: 26:28
Video link: https://youtu.be/zKjQgTQ5gTs
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They Moved 18 Locomotives 38 Miles . . . With No Rail!! (1861-2) Pt. 2 by Jim Surkamp June, 2012
TRT: 12:54
Video link: https://youtu.be/mO5KmgP-970
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THE FOLLY TIMBER FRAME STAGE (located outside Shepherdstown off of Flowing Springs Road and in a wooded area behind the Covenant Church complex)

THE FOLLY – 2003 – morning after Circus of The Tiny Invisibility June, 2012 TRT: 2:11
Video link: https://youtu.be/h8TwWLG9Oas

THE FOLLY: Circus of the Tiny Invisibility Cabaret (2003) by Jim Surkamp June, 2012
TRT: 3:40
Video link: https://youtu.be/pwNb9X4Lhgo

Ethan Fischer (2003) by Jim Surkamp June, 2012
TRT: 4:26
Video link: https://youtu.be/57mAX-EPmMQ

THE FOLLY: Al Thomas’ “Devastated Heroes” (last little part) – (2003)
TRT: 1:04
Video link: https://youtu.be/ju6AAhUpIuo

THE FOLLY: Dylan Kinnett Offers 2 of His Poems at The Folly (2003) Jim Surkamp
TRT: 2:12
Video link: https://youtu.be/fhXdfGk6jck

THE FOLLY: Don Oehser Does The Blues at The Folly (2003) Jim Surkamp TRT: 2:12
Video link: https://youtu.be/-ZVk-WqIWnY

THE FOLLY: Scot Wilkinson and Drummers (2003) Jim Surkamp TRT: 3:10
Video link: https://youtu.be/bu8vFSfIEKE

Cynthia McLaughlin,dance Shana Aisenberg guitar & Scot Wilkinson at The Folly by Jim Surkamp November, 2010
Cynthia McLaughlin explores movement with Shana Aisenberg on guitar (http://www.shanasongs.com) Ideas from Nancy Sanders
http://nancysandersvideo.com
guitar copyright Shana Aisenberg
TRT: 2:38
https://youtu.be/lx84H-UyZOI

Cynthia McLaughlin (dance) and Shana Aisenberg (guitar) and The Folly with Scot Wilkinson by Jim Surkamp and Nancy Farmer. TRT: 3:38
Video link: https://youtu.be/CQDlSRFYS3Q

THE FOLLY: Circus of Tiny Invisibility (2004) Jim Surkamp TRT: 8:52
Video link: https://youtu.be/MvCS66hyE3Q

THE FOLLY: Chance McCoy on mandolin (2003) (later WV Fiddle Champ) Jim Surkamp TRT: 2:50
Video link: https://youtu.be/BGPRIkfTRfc

THE FOLLY: Prep for the “Tiny” Circus (2004) Jim Surkamp TRT: 2:50
Video link: https://youtu.be/WI-J7k9HHa0

THE FOLLY: Steve Warner, Nancy Marmorella (Coyotes) – 2003 Jim Surkamp TRT: 3:51
Video link: https://youtu.be/xCiU9dgK1xc

THE FOLLY: Terry Tucker, Ardyth Gilbertson and Butch Sanders of Treehouse (2003) – Jim Surkamp TRT: 7:20
Video link: https://youtu.be/dUXx-TMis9E

THE FOLLY “The Hider” by Olivia Maxwell (out as a single this September 2012) – Jim Surkamp TRT: 4:17
Video link: https://youtu.be/No7WC4Zsemk

THE FOLLY: Folly Founder Al Thomas Reads His Trebuchet Poem Aug. 1, 2014
TRT: 4:47
Video link: https://youtu.be/tkg1iRZnJVU

THE FOLLY: KB VanHorn @ The Folly
TRT: 3:48
Video link: https://youtu.be/3qNyfb9CFqc

THE FOLLY: Poet Dylan Kinnett: Ode To A Sandwich @ The Folly Aug. 1, 2014
TRT: 1:56
Video link: https://youtu.be/-yelCYpg5mo

THE FOLLY: Don Oehser Plays Blues @ The Folly Aug. 1st w/ Bob Simpson Aug. 1, 2014
TRT: 2:56
Video link: https://youtu.be/GrXx8PcnjH4

THE FOLLY: Lisa Lafferty Does Her “Sallie Hall” @ The Folly With Don Oehser Aug. 1, 2014
TRT: 2:46
Video link: https://youtu.be/AGzCmsjwq3Y

THE FOLLY: “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” Girls Having Fun @ The Folly Aug. 1, 2014
You Ain’t Goin Nowhere – Girls Having Fun @ The Timber Frame Folly Aug. 1st, 2014
Terry Tucker (keyboards, vocals), Ardyth Gilbertson (vocals), Sally Schmidt (vocals)
recording copyright GHF
TRT: 2:57
Video link: https://youtu.be/IL0M1nMDGPw

THE FOLLY: Ethan Fischer Poet & “Johnny Dime – Poet of Crime @ 2005
TRT: 8:32
VIdeo link: https://youtu.be/5ouPa4pnOBs

THE FOLLY: Dump Dat Chump – Girls Having Fun @ The Folly Aug. 1st, 2014
You Ain’t Goin Nowhere – Girls Having Fun @ The Timber Frame Folly Aug. 1st, 2014
Terry Tucker (keyboards, vocals), Ardyth Gilbertson (vocals), Sally Schmidt (vocals)
recording copyright GHF
TRT: 3:03
Video link: https://youtu.be/4hhhngaJPVQ

THE FOLLY: Todd, Andrea, Laura & Don Jam @ The Folly Aug. 2nd, 2014
TRT: 1:58
Video link: https://youtu.be/oQMapSqGFHc

THE FOLLY: Ushi Shares Ethan’s Poems @ The Timber Frame Folly Aug. 1st, 2014
All rights copyright Ethan Fischer/ Ushi Nottnagel
“The Light in December” – Message to their daughter, Karen, at her wedding to Steve
2:16 Oldest WWI Veteran Frank Buckles: “If You Think You’re Dying – Don’t”
3:14 “Your Face Haunts Everyone I See”
3:47 Sung Dynasty Song
4:25 Prognosis
5:24 Bird Counsel
TRT: 6:07
Video links:
https://youtu.be/bGChZuVODDY

THE FOLLY: Dylan Kinnett “A Place in the Shade” @ The Folly Aug. 1st, 2014
TRT: 0:53
Video links: https://youtu.be/VoqftmQAbHE

THE FOLLY: Woke Up This Morning – Girls Having Fun @ The Timber Frame Folly Aug. 1st, 2014
Terry Tucker (keyboards, vocals), Ardyth Gilbertson (vocals), Sally Schmidt (vocals)
by The Carter Family Also called (Oh Take Me Back)
TRT: 2:05
Video links:

THE FOLLY: Laura First Aug 1st Singing the Hawaiian Song @ The Folly Aug. 1st, 2014
TRT: 3:13
Video link: https://youtu.be/2ZM4v3EELAo

THE FOLLY: Jesse Boyd & Bloody Nines at The Timber Frame Folly July 31, 2014
TRT: 4:58
Video link: https://youtu.be/850qkZ3imO0

THE FOLLY: Treehouse @ The Timber Frame Folly July 30, 2014
Wednesday night Treehouse performed at the 20th Anniversary of The Timber Frame Folly near Shepherdstown. It was great. Terry Tucker leads the group, with original compositions also by bassist John Quintanilla, percussionist Butch Sanders, guitarist Matt Robinson, and Vocalist Ardyth Gilbertson. Here are parts from two of their original songs: “Love Makes the World Go ‘Round” and “Bositos” Great fun.
TRT: 6:06
Video link: https://youtu.be/QwDu0-_Rq5M

THE FOLLY: Folly Fish Tales Pt. 1 by Jim Surkamp fall, 2009 – TRT: 2:49
The First Annual Fish Tales at The Folly near Shepherdstown. Bradley Sanders, Tara Sanders Lowe, Lisa Lafferty, Sam Jannotta, Al Thomas, Ardyth Gilbertson and many many more great people. Video link: https://youtu.be/fJH8sE3O6Os

THE FOLLY: Folly Fish Tales Pt. 2 by Jim Surkamp fall, 2009 – TRT: 4:23
Video link: https://youtu.be/U2PFaLel248

THE FOLLY: Fish Tales 2014 4 Girls Singing TRT: 1:36
Video link: https://youtu.be/whY3u30jR90

THE FOLLY: Fish Tales 2014 Ants TRT: 3:08
Video link: https://youtu.be/aq3jVX6TfSs

THE FOLLY: Fish Tales 2014 Underlying TRT: 1:44
Video link: https://youtu.be/kVPhsbIGjG0

THE FOLLY: Fish Tales 2014 Meow Meow TRT: 8:44
Video link: https://youtu.be/OQkob4jby5g

THE FOLLY: Fish Tales 2014 Catfish SIngs TRT: 6:53
Video link: https://youtu.be/zJHI2TwVbts

Pre-Destined Song By Danske Dandridge called “Folly-Land”
Danske Dandridge lived about a quarter of a mile from The Timber Frane Follym so named but she wrote her song “Folly-Land” in the 1880s thenb later published in 1900.

Folly-Land
In Folly-land what witchery!
What pretty looks, what eyes there be;
What gamesome ways; what dimpled smiles;
What lissome limbs; what frolic wiles;
What easy laughter, fresh and clear;
What pranks to play; what jests to hear!
Old Time forgets to shake his sand;
The days go tripping, hand in hand,
In Folly-land, in Folly-land.

In Folly-land, one idle hour,
The moonlight had a wizard power;
Its eerie glamour turned my brain:
(I would that I were there again!)
We stood together, ‘neath the sky:
A bird was chirping drowsily:
He smiled, he sighed, he held my hand.
Ah me! Ah well! we understand
‘T was Folly-land, ‘t was Folly-land.

My sober friend, how worn your looks!
Your heart is in your mouldy books.
Here’s half a cobweb on your brow!
I seldom see you jovial now.
Fling down your volumes and be free
To take a pleasure-trip with me.
Come, Here’s my heart, and here’s my hand!
We’ll launch our skiff and seek the strand
Of Folly-land, of Folly-land.

From Joy, and Other Poems, by Danske Dandridge. Second Edition. New York and London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons – Knickerbocker Press, 1900.

Folly-Land words by Danske Dandridge, arranged and performed by Terry Tucker June, 2013 TRT: 6:12
Video link
https://youtu.be/V2el8H4ASPI
Made possible with the support of American Public University System.

Antietam – Decisions Sorely Missed by Jim Surkamp July, 2012 TRT: 40:40
Video link: https://youtu.be/_Udv70_nUW8
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Shepherdstown’s Wounded Thousands – Sept., 1862 by Jim Surkamp August, 2012 TRT: 54:53
Video link: https://youtu.be/0rRTuCfuZ2g
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CIVIL WAR IN JEFFERSON COUNTY VA. 1862
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“The Fall of Freedomland with Park Historian Dennis Frye” by Jim Surkamp September, 2012 TRT: 44:09
Video link: https://youtu.be/Udg4DEq_mSM
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The Capture of Harper’s Ferry, Va. Sept., 1862 with Dennis Frye October, 2012

This is part of a documented narrative of the time in Jefferson County, West Virginia between February and December, 1862. During this tumultuous period, Federal forces under Gen. Nathaniel Banks invaded the area; then, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson drove them back through this immediate region in May, 1862. Jackson then attempted to also capture Harper’s Ferry from a Federal force in May 30, 1862 – but failed, leaving that redoubt as the only foothold left to the Federal armies in the Shenandoah Valley. But the major incursion in September into Maryland by Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia included another attempt to capture Harper’s Ferry, still protected by up to 14,000 Federal troops. This time, Jackson’s men succeeded. Jackson’s capture of the town and the surrender of the Federal force also created grim and dark prospects for the hundreds, maybe, by one account of up to 5,000, once-enslaved, protection-seeking African-Americans who were in the town. Their fates and the human drama surrounding the actual surrender process will be the focus of soon-to-come third installment of this series, which has been titled “The Fall of Freedomland.”

Chief Historian Dennis Frye for the Harper’s Ferry National Historic Park, gives his time-tested, well-informed account of how this capture unfolded, caused to a great degree by a few individual lapses in judgement.
TRT: 45:16
Video link: https://youtu.be/2iN3-G5m-h8
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The Fateful Battle of Shepherdstown, Va. Sept. 1862 with Thomas McGrath and Eric Johnson November, 2012

Thomas A. McGrath is the author of: “Shepherdstown: Last Clash of the Antietam Campaign September 19-20, 1862.”

A “Small” Blunder Ends Lee’s Campaign
Original POST October, 2012:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130310025248/https://civilwarscholars.com/2012/10/7465/

TRT: 35:02
Video link: https://youtu.be/14dv1zrnFUw
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2nd MOST VIEWED VIDEO
Lorena – the Civil War’s most beloved song – by Jim Surkamp January, 2013
Mandolin performance of Lorena copyright Shana Aisenberg at http://shanasongs.com

NOTE: According to Lloyd Hutchins in an email dated September 13, 2015,
the fate of the composer is NOT “lost in the mists of time.” He wrote more background material that can be found in the June 10, 1984 edition of the Zanesville (OH) Times Recorder newspaper feature story about the song. It appears on the front page of section D.

He adds: The article spells the Ella’s last name as “Blocksom”. Rev. Webster served as pastor at several mid-Western Universalist churches after his Zanesville assignment where he met Ella (“Lorena”). He married a Miss Sarah Willmot Feb. 4, 1850. He died in Chicago Nov. 4, 1896.

Lyrics

VERSE 1
Oh, the years creep slowly by, Lorena,
The snow is on the ground again.
The sun’s low down the sky, Lorena,
The frost gleams where the flow’rs have been.
But the heart beats on as warmly now,
As when the summer days were nigh.
Oh, the sun can never dip so low
A-down affection’s cloudless sky.

VERSE 2
A hundred months have passed, Lorena,
Since last I held that hand in mine,
And felt the pulse beat fast, Lorena,
Though mine beat faster far than thine.
A hundred months, ’twas flowery May,
When up the hilly slope we climbed,
To watch the dying of the day,
And hear the distant church bells chime.

VERSE 3
We loved each other then, Lorena,
Far more than we ever dared to tell;
And what we might have been, Lorena,
Had but our loving prospered well —
But then, ’tis past, the years are gone,
I’ll not call up their shadowy forms;
I’ll say to them, “Lost years, sleep on!
Sleep on! nor heed life’s pelting storms.”

VERSE 4
The story of that past, Lorena,
Alas! I care not to repeat,
The hopes that could not last, Lorena,
They lived, but only lived to cheat.
I would not cause e’en one regret
To rankle in your bosom now;
For “if we try we may forget,”
Were words of thine long years ago.

VERSE 5
Yes, these were words of thine, Lorena,
They burn within my memory yet;
They touched some tender chords, Lorena,
Which thrill and tremble with regret.
‘Twas not thy woman’s heart that spoke;
Thy heart was always true to me:
A duty, stern and pressing, broke
The tie which linked my soul with thee.

VERSE 6
It matters little now, Lorena,
The past is in the eternal past;
Our heads will soon lie low, Lorena,
Life’s tide is ebbing out so fast.
There is a Future! O, thank God!
Of life this is so small a part!
‘Tis dust to dust beneath the sod;
But there, up there, ’tis heart to heart

TRT: 6:56
VIDEO LINK FOR LORENA: https://youtu.be/0x59Vae_tyg
Made possible with the support of American Public University System.

Lovable Learning by Jim Surkamp January, 2013
How do you make learning lovable using the web and technology?

Transcript:

The acceleration and deepening of human education has three forces, converging: all technological, but all driven by our human love of learning as a means to attain a sense of control and mastery in our lives.

We believe that its technology, married with humanities that yields the result that makes the heart sing. The three forces are: the online course, the online constellation of content of a course, and creative presentation of the content of a course that makes the heart sing, designed to make the learning lovable.

Force number one: the online course – take an online course and you easily can share the mind of the teacher, the minds of the classmates, and you can work at home, or on the go – all affordably.

Force number two – the online content universe: put your classes’ content on the web. Call it a content constellation with a home site of teacher’s curated content. Call this home site the “mothership” of a constellation of web content.

Now what kind of course content is this? Not just digitized books and articles, but also texts, videos, audio, visuals, graphics that are reached easily from the mothership via links as a seeming infinity of pathways to and from the mothership.

The learner uses links to appease questions and curiosity. Each answered question reveals more underlying, new questions and, thus, flows the golden stream of learning provided by the constellation of content.

Learning is not the product of teaching. “Learning is the product of the activity of learners,” wrote John Holt, author and educator. “You learn when you’re just-ignited fire of interest quickly gets the wanted kindling of relevant knowledge and fact.

“Education is not the filling of a pale, but the lighting of a fire,” once wrote William Butler Yeats, the great Irish poet. Well sort of: It’s more like: “the more you fill the pail with facts and knowledge, the more curiosity is satisfied and the more fired up is learning.” A good teacher is the revered arsonist to our learning. Okay . . .

In sum, add to the advantages of online course-taking the newer concept of having online of courses content on a discrete website with references, curated content and links reaching, across the web to much more curated and course-related content.

Force number three: presentation lights the fire, but the third force we can have enables you to make learning lovable. For the artful use of techie tools of presentation as Johnny Ive of Apple once wrote: “As you bring order to complexity, you find a way to make the product – in our case, learning or knowledge – you find a way to make knowledge and learning defer to you. In presentation – to be truly simple – you have to go really deep into the complexity of the content, and that’s where the satisfaction and happiness begins.”

To repeat what Steve Jobs wrote in his book: “We believe that it’s technology married with humanities that yields the result that makes the heart sing.”

What does this mean? Do you remember a website that was well-designed, intuitive and simple to use – satisfying – compared to a website that was not well-designed, confusing and soon-to-be-abandoned? Look at this map. Is it clear? Is it intuitive or is it a pile of jangled yarn? Why not, instead, create a time-sequenced series of maps with each illustrating a single action-reaction event, separate and clear.

Take Steven Jobs and Jony Ive’s approach to the design of product, and apply it to knowledge. Present knowledge in such a way that it gives the learner a sense of control over their learning with continually-refired interest. How? By activating and appealing to all possible brain centers of cognition; not just the brain centers for decoding text. Text alone needs much decoding first. Use images to appeal to sight, video to appeal to experience and movement, audio to appeal to sound cognition, and text to appeal to left-brain type cognition centers.

In other words, appealing to many types of inborn cognition is a more complete learning, reaching every type of learners “lead set of cognition.” ADA compliance! To successfully design a presentation to make content appealing to many types of learners, we need to remind ourselves that a web-based content center is not a book and, how ADA compliant is a book anyway? Think of Alexander Graham Bell and his telephone which when first presented is wrongly seen as only a so-so backup machine for the telegraph.

Similarly, web-based content is not ancillary to the time-honored model of The Book. Web-based course content changes the entire equation of learning beyond the text-dominant and text-exclusive Book Model. Books, which we will always love anyway, are constrained by production costs that rule out 2,000 page books can’t easily put illustrative images to where they best belong within the text, can’t link words in the text of the book to knowledge worlds beyond. The book, put another way, a book, in its design, cannot allow lengthy pursuits of tangential interests.

The pursuit of knowledge within a well-curated, organized website or educational platform, as it were, is highly satisfying to the learner who learns to love learning and yields the very best learning outcome. What is that outcome? It is the self-teaching lifelong learner and self-starting, problem-solver who is also a leader and this is possible because we made learning lovable.
TRT: 9:07
Video link: https://youtu.be/igpKplCmh1I
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Hardtack, Weevils and Other Enemies (captioned) by Jim Surkamp February, 2013 TRT: 15:12
Video link: https://youtu.be/Cz9bJMOWXJ4
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Other Food related Videos in Jim Surkamp’s channel:
West African Cooking in Old Virginia by Jim Surkamp (captioned) February, 2013
Ardyth Gilbertson sings, Seth Austen on guitar, Dave Hellyer on harmonica “
TRT: 14:36
Video link: https://youtu.be/nKig5uVL9NU
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FLICKR SET:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimsurkamp/sets/72157632671126615/
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Frank Vizetelly – “This Englishman Can’t Cook” by Jim Surkamp (captioned) February, 2013 TRT: 8:34
Video link: https://youtu.be/BhM00mYg77c
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From The Bower to “Gone With The Wind” by Jim Surkamp (captioned) February, 2013

FLICKR SET: 70 images http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimsurkamp/sets/72157632748802234/

Thursday, September 18, 1862 — Sharpsburg, MD: An uneasy pause after the War Storm
Weather: warm in the day, a heavy thunder storm in the evening. — (Hotchkiss, p. 83)

A day after the dreadful Battle of Antietam and Sharpsburg had abated, Confederate forces surreptitiously re-crossed the Potomac River into Virginia at different points, most crossing at Boteler’s Ford below Shepherdstown. Gen. Robert E. Lee sent Gen. Stuart’s cavalry upriver on the Virginia side to opposite from Williamsport to re-cross back into Maryland, and then vex the Federals and divert their attention and resources away from the main retreating Confederate Army at Shepherdstown. That done, Stuart’s men, like all of Lee’s army, re-crossed into Virginia, found their way to fields and farms in Jefferson and Berkeley Counties along the Opequon Creek to rest, protected by pickets along the river provided by Stuart’s cavalry.

This series of short videos, first, describes the perilous time for Stuart and his men at a seldom used river crossing, then focuses on the relief and anything-but-military pleasures of Stuart’s men on “R&R” at Stephen Dandridge’s well-stocked farm at The Bower.

During this respite at the Bower, Lee’s army increased in size, adding more than 20,000 new, straggling and/or returning men. They rested well, because, even while they busied themselves destroying the Winchester-Potomac Railroad from Harper’s Ferry to Winchester and portions of the Baltimore & Ohio west of Harper’s Ferry, Federal commander Gen. George McClellan was fending off entreaties from President Lincoln and Gen. Halleck to pursue Lee, conceding the need to secure Harper’s Ferry, and ordering the occasional, limited reconnaissance operations but all the while complaining he needed more men, more shoes, more clothes and more horses.

Gen. McClellan’s historic failure is his not using these forty days to pursue Lee’s weakened army and probably defeating it, with much superior numbers. Lincoln thus fired him in early November. Those days in that unforgettable fall of 1862 blessed weary, bodacious Confederate cavalrymen with an infinitely good time at The Bower.

TRT: 14:22
Video link: https://youtu.be/rd47FychooA
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Civil War in Jefferson & Berkeley Counties, Sept. 18-22,1862 by Jim Surkamp (captioned) February, 2013

FLICKR SET: 67 images
Thursday, September 18, 1862 — Sharpsburg, MD: An uneasy pause after the War Storm
Weather: warm in the day, a heavy thunder storm in the evening. — (Hotchkiss, p. 83)

TRT: 17:39
Video link
https://youtu.be/kh0JnSyWW_M
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Civil War in Jefferson County, WV Sept. 22-28, 1862 by Jim Surkamp (captioned) February, 2013

The first in this series of short videos, described the perilous time for Confederate cavalryman J.E.B. Stuart and his men at a seldom used river crossing. This, the second video of the series, is from September 22nd thru September 28, 1862 in Jefferson County, then-Virginia from the viewpoints of Heros Von Borck and George Neese, two Confederate cavalryman, and Charles Fuller, a private from upstate New York who is on picket near Harper’s Ferry. Subsequent videos in this short series are more about the relief and anything-but-military pleasures of Stuart’s men on “R&R” at Stephen Dandridge’s well-stocked farm at The Bower.

FLICKR SET: 105 photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimsurkamp/sets/72157632834872168/

TRT: 25:51
Video link
https://youtu.be/6zzhJF3KD0w
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“Hard Times Come Again No More” performed by Terry Tucker February, 2013 Song by Stephen Foster. WARNING. two images of Civil War soldiers with an amputated arm stump. Edited by Jim Surkamp
TRT: 2:43
Video link
https://youtu.be/ardp02FwA2Y
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The Home Front in Jefferson County Then-VA, fall, 1862 by Jim Surkamp (captioned) February, 2013

The first in this series of short videos described the perilous time for Confederate cavalryman J.E.B. Stuart and his men at a seldom used river crossing. The second video of the series covered from September 22nd thru September 28, 1862 in Jefferson County, then-Virginia from the viewpoints of Heros Von Borck and George Neese, two Confederate cavalryman, and Charles Fuller, a private from upstate New York who was on picket near Harper’s Ferry. This, the third of the series, covers the Jefferson County home front through September-October, 1862, a brief, complex time, characterized by local soldiers grabbing a quick visit home, continued care for wounded in churches, homes, and barns for roughly 7,000 wounded men all across the county and region, the destruction of railroads by Confederates, intermittent Federal incursions into the County, that were met with counter-attacks by the Confederate cavalry pickets. When there was peace, it was readily embraced and enjoyed by all. As Cavalryman and County native, John Opie wrote: “To say that the soldiers enjoyed this long period of rest during the delightful fall of 1862, after the arduous campaign through which we had passed, hardly expresses it.”

The Antietam/Sharpsburg battle left about 7,000 men strewn across the County desperately needing care.

Abner Hard from Illinois found Col. William Magill of the 1st Georgia Regulars at a house two miles from Shepherdstown. He wrote: “A few miles further on at a farm-house we found Colonel Magill and other rebel officers, suffering from severe wounds. The Colonel had an arm amputated at the shoulder, which, for the want of proper care, was alive with maggots. After dressing their wounds we learned that the Colonel had been educated at West Point, and was a classmate of General Pleasanton.”

TRT: 12:08
Video link
https://youtu.be/8ArhXrtZuhg
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25 “Perfect” Days at The Bower, fall, 1862 Pt. 1 by Jim Surkamp (captioned) February, 2013
Guitar and fiddle, other than intro guitar by Shana Aisenberg (shanasongs.com)

POST: 25 “Perfect” Days at The Bower – fall, 1862 Pt. 1 by Jim Surkamp
https://web.archive.org/web/20130302224950/https://civilwarscholars.com/2012/12/25-perfect-days-at-the-bower-september-october-1862/

This series of short videos, first, describes the perilous time for Confederate Cavalry General J.E.B. Stuart and his men at a seldom-used river crossing. The second video is about actions between September 22 and September 28, 1862. The third video describes the home front in Jefferson County in the fall of 1862, both the care of wounded and about soldiers on brief leave at their family home. This video is the story of much-treasured moments of fun and respite for those at the headquarters of Stuart’s. They lingered for much of a month at Stephen Dandridge’s well-stocked farm at The Bower. The military actions that punctuated and interrupted their fun-makings are chronicled in greater detail elsewhere at civilwarscholars.com. During this respite at the Bower, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s army, encamped throughout the area after the devastating Antietam battle, increased in size, adding more than 20,000 new, straggling and/or returning men. They rested well, because, even while they busied themselves destroying the Winchester-Potomac Railroad from Harper’s Ferry to Winchester and portions of the Baltimore & Ohio west of Harper’s Ferry, Federal commander Gen. George McClellan was fending off entreaties from President Lincoln and Gen. Halleck to attack Lee. But McClellan beyond conceding the need to secure Harper’s Ferry, and ordering the occasional, limited reconnaissance operations into Jefferson County, Va., confined his energies mostly to complaining he needed more men, more shoes, more clothes and more horses.

TRT: 18:25
Video link
https://youtu.be/lsQ9OSpL1sg
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Turkey Hunting in fall, 1862 Jefferson County, WV by Jim Surkamp February, 2013
TRT: 5:25
Video link
https://youtu.be/QAMChQdi2Zc
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Glancing at 3 Famous Years: Oct. 1859-Oct. 1862 Pt. 1 of 2 parts by Jim Surkamp April, 2013
TRT: 15:28
Video link
https://youtu.be/jmXetSjxV04
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Glancing at 3 Famous Years: October, 1859-October, 1862 (Conclusion) by Jim Surkamp April, 2013
TRT: 26:54
Video link
https://youtu.be/XujZopuKmK4
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HOW TO NAVIGATE A CANAL BOAT INTO A CANAL LOCK – MID-1800s

Thru The Lock In Your Boat – A Driver’s Manual – Jim Surkamp with Terry Pepper May, 2013
Animation by Terry Pepper. Guitar courtesy Shana Aisenberg at http://shanasongs.com
Credit sounds http://www.freesfx.co.uk
TRT: 3:05
Video link
https://youtu.be/TOzKKF0L9K4
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Chesapeake & Ohio Canal in 1859 – Part 1: The Last Easy, Glide by Jim Surkamp and “Unknown” June, 2013

POST: Life on the C&O Canal – Summer, 1859: The Last, Lazy Glide by Jim Surkamp and “Unknown” (edited from an anonymous diary of a canal boat trip in the summer of 1859, in the Library of Congress). (Links of all the videos are at the site post too). 8045 words.

POST: Life on the C&O Canal – Summer, 1859: The Last, Lazy Glide by Jim Surkamp and “Unknown” (1)
https://web.archive.org/web/20131112181055/https://civilwarscholars.com/2013/05/pulling-downstream-in-1859-the-carolina-and-her-potomac-crew/

Ella E. Clark Life on the C & O Canal 1859 pp 82-122
Mayland Historical Magazine 1960-06: Vol 55 Iss 2
Publisher: University of Maryland

Huge thanks again to Shana Aisenberg for his fantastic guitar, banjo, mandolin work along with Dave Hellyer for some red-hot harmonica. Thanks for Coy Hill for his Potomac at sunrise photograph and sound effects courtesy free sound effects at http://www.freesfx.co.uk

TRT: 5:49
Video link
https://youtu.be/Q5g7AexEhKY
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C&O Canal 1859 Pt. 2 – The Day The Mules Panicked by Jim Surkamp June, 2013

Ella E. Clark Life on the C & O Canal 1859 pp 82-122
Maryland Historical Magazine 1960-06: Vol 55 Iss 2
Publisher: University of Maryland

TRT: 7:04
Video link
https://youtu.be/5oc-Hkg_g1w
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Chesapeake & Ohio Canal – 1859: Snakes, Food and Fiddlin’ (3) by Jim Surkamp June, 2013
Huge thanks again to Shana Aisenberg for his fantastic guitar, banjo, mandolin work along with Dave Hellyer for some red-hot harmonica. Thanks for Coy Hill for his Potomac at sunrise photograph and sound effects courtesy free sound effects at http://www.freesfx.co.uk
TRT: 5:54
Video link
https://youtu.be/w4-ummtxK1k
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C & O Canal – 1859: Pushy Hogs, Parties N’ Dung Bugs (4) by Jim Surkamp June, 2013 TRT: 8:35
Video link
https://youtu.be/u0tsBRtfgig
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C & O Canal – 1859: Snapping Turtles and Shadflies (5) by Jim Surkamp June, 2013 TRT: 7:49
Video link
https://youtu.be/kBL9gTJovHc
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The C & O Canal During The Civil War, with Author Timothy R. Snyder (Pt. 1) June, 2013 TRT: 8:12
Video link
https://youtu.be/7Nr_QiUXcww
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The C&O Canal At the Doorstep of War, With Timothy R. Snyder, Jim Surkamp (Pt. 2) June, 2013
Taken from Mr. Snyder’s book “Trembling in the Balance: The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal During the Civil War.” Sound FX courtesy freesfx.co.uk; bird sound (Grosbeak) courtesy Maccauley Library Cornell University; harmonica by Dave Hellyer; guitar/mandolin by Shana Aisenberg (http://shanasongs.com.com). Letters from Bradley Forbush’s website 13thmass.org
TRT: 11:21
Video link: https://youtu.be/dpyDKnjDWSg
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AUTHOR STEVE FRENCH ON REDMOND BURKE

The River Ambush of Mortimer Cookus, Nov., 1862, With Author Steve French and Jim Surkamp
July, 2013
TRT:6:46
Video link: https://youtu.be/iw-nJGUL2dk
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Who is Redmond Burke?, With Author Steve French and Jim Surkamp July, 2013
Steve French, “Rebel Chronicles” sfrench52@yahoo.com
Flickr Set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimsurkamp/sets/72157634751161731/
42 images
sound effects courtesy freesfx.co.uk at http://www.freesfx.co.uk
TRT: 5:18
Video link: https://youtu.be/LTJYtx0DERs
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Harvard Men Ransack Shepherdstown, Va., November, 1862 as told by Author Steve French August, 2013
TRT: 23:07
Video link: https://youtu.be/q7pASPvNMYk
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Within “Description”

FLICKR: 165 images
Redmond Burke, the Harvard men, November, 1862
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VIDEO:
The Fall of Redmond Burke, With Author Steve French by Jim Surkamp TRT: 6:45
Video link: http://youtu.be/iw-nJGUL2dk
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VIDEO:
The “Harvard men” Hunt Down “Bushwhacker” Burke – November 24, 1862, Shepherdstown, VA
TRT: 16:30
Video link: http://youtu.be/w-MJdeDxRNc

Flickr Set: 54 images
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimsurkamp/sets/72157634796198973/
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End of STEVE FRENCH AND REDMOND BURKE

Strange is Wesley Culp’s Way Home Part 1 by Jim Surkamp September, 2013
TRT: 8:46
Video link https://youtu.be/ekxZGyOCe64
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Strange is Wesley Culp’s Way Home Part 2 by Jim Surkamp September, 2013 TRT: 7:42
Culp’s smart uniform showed off his hand with a needle and thread. The new recruits were wrong. The war wasn’t going to be short, nor easy or glorious. No, they weren’t just going to bloody the nose of the Federals in one glorious, manly face-off.
TRT: 7:42
Video link https://youtu.be/YD8SnhSFpg0
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Strange is Wesley Culp’s Way Home Part 3 by Jim Surkamp September, 2013 TRT: 19:50
Video link https://youtu.be/Ffj1Zw2Tiz8
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Unforeseeable Spring – Jefferson County, Va, 1862 by Jim Surkamp (captioned) October, 2013 Within “Description”

This is an Almanac of War for 1862 in Jefferson County, Va. A brief chronological fly-over of war in Jefferson County in 1862. It was late winter when the fighting started up again.

All acoustic composition and arrangement by Shana Aisenberg.
Traditional, arrangement by Shana Aisenberg © 2012
or Composed by Shana Aisenberg © 2000. free Sound FX: http://www.freesfx.co.uk

TRT: 12:50
Video link:
https://youtu.be/e0HZF9bG8OY
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The Impossible Autumn, Jefferson County, Va. 1862 Pt. 1 by Jim Surkamp (captioned) October, 2013
TRT: 13:35
Video link
https://youtu.be/e0Gzm4XlyQo
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The Impossible Autumn, Jefferson County, Va, 1862 Pt. 2 by Jim Surkamp (captioned) October, 2013
This is an Almanac of War for 1862 in Jefferson County, Va. A brief chronological fly-over of war in Jefferson County in 1862. It was late winter when the fighting started up again.
TRT: 14:32
Video link
https://youtu.be/hRBJE6IYDeg
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The Impossible Autumn Pt. 3 – Jefferson County. Va. 1862 by Jim Surkamp November, 2013
TRT: 15:51
Video link
https://youtu.be/cZtwFWZHRsQ
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The Impossible Autumn Pt. 4 – Jefferson County, Va. by Jim Surkamp October, 2013
TRT: 24:10
Video link:
http://youtu.be/1-Nn85D6IDY
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Immortal Essence – The Words of Danske Dandridge by Jim Surkamp December, 2013 TRT: 1:07:30
Music composed and arranged by Terry Tucker

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