Made possible by the generous, community minded support of American Public University System. (apus.edu) Sentiments and views portrayed in this series do not in any way reflect the modern-day 21st century policies of the University, but are offered to encourage fact-based discussion on the evolution of the foundational values of the United States.
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In January, 2023 the counted number of views to the estimated 21,000 collages and images in this collection passed 110,564,980 views and continues to receive a minimum of 50,000 views daily – Jim Surkamp
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County fights https://civilwarscholars.com/county-fights/
County homes 1860
https://civilwarscholars.com/county-homes-1860/
County-born soldiers (both sides):
https://civilwarscholars.com/county-soldiers-both-sides/
References (with live links to sources): 91,711 words
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POSTS CHRONOLOGICALLY
POST: A Cradle of American Values: The Lower (northern) Shenandoah Valley in 18th Century
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https://web.archive.org/web/20190710015354/https://civilwarscholars.com/2011/06/540/
POST: Mr. Hall Showed Us How to Make Things – Lots of Them, and Quickly by Jim Surkamp 2668 words
POST: Mary Bedinger Mitchell Remembers Shepherdstown & Copenhagen
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SERIES: A. R. H. RANSON LIFE IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, VA IN THE 1850S (WITH DICK AND GEORGE FLAGG)
POST: Farm Life 1850s – A.R.H. Ranson Tells, Opines
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This is taken from one of six essays written for Sewanee Review from 1913 to 1915 by Ambrose Robert Hite Ranson (1831-1919). called “REMINISCENCES OF THE CIVIL WAR BY A CONFEDERATE STAFF OFFICER” about his growing up years living at his family home, Gap View, and his experiences during the Civil War as a Confederate officer. His observations are very informative about daily life pre-war amid unacceptable observations condoning the enslavement of other human beings. His account is still important in its rendering of daily work on a farm in the 1840s and 1850s in Jefferson County, Virginia, one of the most agricultural counties in the Virginias. These conditions were substantially different in the northern Shenandoah Valley when compared to the brutal monocultures in the deep South. Enslavement in Jefferson County, based on writings of those – white and black – who lived here then – was one of diverse work, the pervasive fear of being sold south, pockets of profound cruelty, and the tantalizing nearness of the option of escaping to freedom.
VIDEO: Ambrose Ranson’s Perspective Where Others Do The Work. TRT: 6:44.
POST: Ambrose Ranson Remembers Jefferson County in the 1840s & 1850s (1)
POST: Ambrose Ranson Remembers Jefferson County in the 1840s & 1850s (2)
VIDEO: Ambrose Ranson Remembers Jefferson County in the 1840s & 1850s Part 2. TRT: 8:16.
POST: Ambrose Ranson Remembers Jefferson County in the 1840s & 1850s (3)
VIDEO: Ambrose Ranson Remembers Jefferson County in the 1840s & 1850s. Part 3 TRT: 7:19.
POST: George Flagg’s Stagefright – 1850s – Jefferson County, VA by Jim Surkamp
VIDEO: George Flagg’s Stagefright – 1850s – Jefferson County, VA by Jim Surkamp. TRT: 9:17
Flickr.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimsurkamp/sets/72157641430682544/
POST: African-American Dick Morris and his “Owner” Ambrose Hite Ranson by Jim Surkamp (Same as video, slightly changed title). 2907 words.
VIDEO: Dick Morris and Ambrose Ranson by Jim Surkamp TRT: 15:41
https://youtu.be/6rpD4sCcATM
Flickr.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimsurkamp/sets/72157642317237773/
SERIES: “THIS MOST EXTRAORDINARY & INTELLIGENT BLACK MAN – MARTIN DELANY” – President Abraham Lincoln, upon meeting Delany at the White House in February, 1865
WHILE POSTS AND VIDEOS ARE PRESENTED IN HISTORIC, CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, WE TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY, FOR THE RESEARCHER’S CONVENIENCE, TO INCLUDE HERE ALL THE EVENTS OF MARTIN DELANY’S LIFE 1812-1885.
From an extensive researcher’s website by Jim Surkamp that had been maintained by West Virginia University Library:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110311052746/http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/delany/home.htm
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/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. 1 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1980s) September, 2008 TRT: 6:51
Video link: https://youtu.be/HgH7Oi5nzCQ
Charles Town and Martin Delany Pt. 2 by Jim Surkamp (Originally mid-1980s) September, 2008 TRT: 6:28
Video link: https://youtu.be/zH7w9G2opmI
MARTIN DELANY SERIES – FULL LENGTH VIDEO 11 CHAPTERS:
Martin Delany – 1 by Jim Surkamp TRT: 5:38
Martin Delany – 2 by Jim Surkamp TRT: 4:55
Martin Delany – 3 by Jim Surkamp TRT: 5:22
Martin Delany – 4 by Jim Surkamp TRT: 7:22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoov745rJIQ
Martin Delany – 5 by Jim Surkamp TRT: 6:34
Martin Delany – 6 by Jim Surkamp TRT: 5:32
Martin Delany – 7 by Jim Surkamp TRT: 2:20
Martin Delany – 8 by Jim Surkamp TRT: 4:17
Martin Delany – 9 by Jim Surkamp TRT: 5:37
Martin Delany – 10 by Jim Surkamp TRT: 6:01
Martin Delany – 11 by Jim Surkamp TRT: 4:29
POST: Martin Delany: To Be More Than Equal
https://civilwarscholars.com/uncategorized/martin-delany-to-be-more-than-equal/
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SERIES: THE JOHN BROWN RAID OCT., 1859, AND ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE – WITH INDEPENDENT HISTORIAN, DENNIS FRYE
Source: Boston Athenaeum
Author: John Bowles
POST: John Brown Plots A Gov’t with Martin Delany
https://civilwarscholars.com/uncategorized/john-brown-plots-a-govt-with-martin-delany/
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POST: Free, Black Families in Jefferson County, Va., Towns 1860
https://civilwarscholars.com/uncategorized/free-black-families-in-jefferson-county-va-towns-1860/
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POST: 7 Biggest “People-Owners,” Jefferson County, Va. 1860
https://civilwarscholars.com/uncategorized/7-biggest-people-owners-jefferson-county-va-1860/
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POST: 575 Enslaved Counted in 1860 as “Escaped”
https://civilwarscholars.com/uncategorized/589-enslaved-counted-in-1860-as-escaped-by-jim-surkamp-on-june-17-2011/
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POST: Fifteen Set Fires a Sign of Slave Resistance?
https://civilwarscholars.com/uncategorized/fifteen-set-fires-a-sign-of-slave-resistance/
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POST: Dennis Frye -“Did John Brown Have A Military Plan?”
https://civilwarscholars.com/uncategorized/did-john-brown-have-a-military-plan-dennis-frye/
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VIDEO: Dennis Frye -“Did John Brown Have A Military Plan?” TRT: 5:25 https://youtu.be/0r5JzYXOAr4
POST: Dennis Frye -“Why Was Jefferson County a Crucible of the Civil War?”
https://civilwarscholars.com/uncategorized/why-was-jefferson-county-a-crucible-of-the-civil-war-dennis-frye/
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VIDEO: Dennis Frye -“Why Was Jefferson County a Crucible of the Civil War?” TRT: 4:53 https://youtu.be/67JGmRYyLUo
POST: Dennis Frye -“Why Did Virginia Try John Brown?”
https://civilwarscholars.com/uncategorized/why-did-virginia-try-john-brown-dennis-frye/
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VIDEO: Dennis Frye -“Why Did Virginia Try John Brown?” TRT: 4:03 https://youtu.be/o1-Kn3qENeY
POST: Jefferson County, Virginia 1860 – A Profile of Prosperity
https://civilwarscholars.com/uncategorized/jefferson-county-virginia-1860-a-profile-of-prosperity/
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POST: Dennis Frye -“Was John Brown Insane?”
https://civilwarscholars.com/uncategorized/was-john-brown-insane-dennis-frye/
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VIDEO: “Was John Brown Insane?” – Dennis Frye TRT: 4:45
https://youtu.be/wqYia06HiAA
POST: Dennis Frye -“Did John Brown Elect Abraham Lincoln President?”
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https://civilwarscholars.com/uncategorized/did-john-brown-elect-abraham-lincoln-president-dennis-frye/
VIDEO: Dennis Frye -“Did John Brown Elect Abraham Lincoln President?” TRT: 3:23 https://youtu.be/h6SJwnpBcbA
POST: Dennis Frye – “Did Virginia Realize They Would Host the Civil War?”
https://civilwarscholars.com/uncategorized/did-virginia-realize-they-would-host-the-civil-war-dennis-frye/
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VIDEO: “Did Virginia Realize They Would Host the Civil War?” – Dennis Frye TRT: 3:27
https://youtu.be/zcRbPnO5ZUY
POST: Shepherdstown, Va. – July, 1860 – Drumbeats By Jim Surkamp
https://civilwarscholars.com/uncategorized/shepherdstown-va-july-1860-drumbeats-by-jim-surkamp/
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POST: P. Douglas Perks- Jefferson County, Va. late 1850s – Clouds of War
https://civilwarscholars.com/uncategorized/p-douglas-perks-november-1860-jefferson-county-votes/
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VIDEO: P. Douglas Perks- Jefferson County, Va. late 1850s – Clouds of War TRT: 7:17 https://youtu.be/W0c4Ir6DPpQ
POST: Dennis Frye – “What Was Virginia’s Opinion of Secession?”
https://civilwarscholars.com/uncategorized/what-was-virginias-opinion-of-secession-dennis-frye/
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VIDEO: Dennis Frye – “What Was Virginia’s Opinion of Secession?” TRT: 5:28 https://youtu.be/kjgoy9PraTg