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Bath Romney Campaign
More information will follow:
Below is the tentative schedule for the 148th Bath-Romney Campaign Commemoration, January 15-17. 2010!
We are especially looking for people interested in being a part of our candlelight tour vignettes in the evening! More on these to come, but they will focus on the individual experience of Federal and Confederate soldiers during the campaign, and civilian reactions to the battle/occupation, etc.!
FRIDAY JANUARY 15, 2009
2:00 – 4:00 camp life/set up
4:00 Musket firing demonstration
5:00 Fifes & Drums
5:30 – 7:00 Candlelight tours (6 different vignettes!)
7:30 – 9:00 Fifes & Drums/Evening multimedia presentation on campaign at hotel
CAMP: Ambrose Chapel, built in 1850 and used as a hospital for sick soldiers during the campaign! Participants can camp out in the cold in the cemetery or sleep inside on original pews warmed by a wood stove! Ask Peter Vaughn!
SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2010
10:00 Musket firing demonstration
11:00 Fifes & Drums
12:00 – 1:00 Camp Life (period cooking demonstration)
1:00 Fifes & Drums
2:00 The Battle for Bath: Two perspectives (Union & Confederate soldiers talk about battle)
2:30 Musket firing demonstration/tactics
5:30 – 7:00 Candlelight tours (6 different vignettes!)
7:30 – 9:00 Fifes & Drums/Evening multimedia presentation on campaign at hotel
CAMP: Ambrose Chapel, built in 1850 and used as a hospital for sick soldiers during the campaign! Participants can camp out in the cold in the cemetery or sleep inside on original pews warmed by a wood stove! Ask Peter Vaughn!
SUNDAY JANUARY 17, 2010
10:00 Musket firing demonstration
11:00 Fifes & Drums and musket demonstration
12:00 – 1:00 Camp Life (period cooking demonstration)
1:00 Period Sermon/Fifes & Drums The Battle for Bath: Two perspectives (Union & Confederate soldiers talk about battle)
2:30 Formal ceremony honoring fallen of both sides
3:00 Event ends
As more information becomes available it will get posted here.
Below is the tentative schedule for the 148th Bath-Romney Campaign Commemoration, January 15-17. 2010!
We are especially looking for people interested in being a part of our candlelight tour vignettes in the evening! More on these to come, but they will focus on the individual experience of Federal and Confederate soldiers during the campaign, and civilian reactions to the battle/occupation, etc.!
FRIDAY JANUARY 15, 2009
2:00 – 4:00 camp life/set up
4:00 Musket firing demonstration
5:00 Fifes & Drums
5:30 – 7:00 Candlelight tours (6 different vignettes!)
7:30 – 9:00 Fifes & Drums/Evening multimedia presentation on campaign at hotel
CAMP: Ambrose Chapel, built in 1850 and used as a hospital for sick soldiers during the campaign! Participants can camp out in the cold in the cemetery or sleep inside on original pews warmed by a wood stove! Ask Peter Vaughn!
SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2010
10:00 Musket firing demonstration
11:00 Fifes & Drums
12:00 – 1:00 Camp Life (period cooking demonstration)
1:00 Fifes & Drums
2:00 The Battle for Bath: Two perspectives (Union & Confederate soldiers talk about battle)
2:30 Musket firing demonstration/tactics
5:30 – 7:00 Candlelight tours (6 different vignettes!)
7:30 – 9:00 Fifes & Drums/Evening multimedia presentation on campaign at hotel
CAMP: Ambrose Chapel, built in 1850 and used as a hospital for sick soldiers during the campaign! Participants can camp out in the cold in the cemetery or sleep inside on original pews warmed by a wood stove! Ask Peter Vaughn!
SUNDAY JANUARY 17, 2010
10:00 Musket firing demonstration
11:00 Fifes & Drums and musket demonstration
12:00 – 1:00 Camp Life (period cooking demonstration)
1:00 Period Sermon/Fifes & Drums The Battle for Bath: Two perspectives (Union & Confederate soldiers talk about battle)
2:30 Formal ceremony honoring fallen of both sides
3:00 Event ends
As more information becomes available it will get posted here.
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Bob Denton on -
I'm confused regarding the "Battle for Bath" (i.e. Berkeley Springs). Other than the sharp skirmish on the Johnson's Mill Road outside of Bath, there really was no "battle" there. The Federals pretty much fled to Hancock, on information provided by a negro man that a large force of Confederates was approaching the town.
RD
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Permalink Reply by Greg Bullock on -
Maybe that is why there is only 30 mins on the schedule for the description of it..
Robert Ambrose might have more information about that.
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Permalink Reply by Robert Ambrose on -
Well first off I would disagree with you Bob about the engagment at Bath, it lasted from 10 in the morning until about 4 in the evening on Janaury 4, and the 39th Illinios put up an admirbale defense, but historical disagreement aside, what is transpiring on the scedule is a discussion in first person from soldiers about the fighting in and around Bath on January 4. We are however considering a small tactical demonstarion in the Park of the Federal retreat up Warm Springs Ridge. I hope this helps and if you have any questions let me know, or I can put you in contact with Jim Bailey as well on the hsitorical record.
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Permalink Reply by Greg Bullock on
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ATTENTION ALL!
The 148th Anniversary of the 1862 Bath-Romney Campaign is one short month away. Mark your calendars now for January 15-17, 2010!
NEW!
The BRCHPA is pleased to announce several advances made within the past year that include:
• We are in the process of getting our first 3 interpretive signs approved for installation under West Virginia's new Civil War Trails program.
• We have acquired a corporate sponsor for the 2010 event, and a sponsor for our first CWT sign. Nancy Sorastic, who with her husband ??? [need to look up] own The Country Inn, have agreed to support our 2010 event and sponsor the first CWT sign to be placed in Morgan County (and the first related to the B-R Campaign anywhere). The sign will be placed on their property to interpret the January 1862 events that occurred in the Strother Hotel, which occupied the site on which The Country Inn now stands.
• Display space provided inside The Country Inn.
• The BRCHPA, using seed money donated from the 9th Virginia several years ago, has applied for official non-profit status and will sponsor a second CWT sign.
2010 Event Highlights!
• Evening candlelight tours of 5 first-person impression vignettes.
• Two evening presentations that will include updated power-point maps and information about local and regional sites associated with the campaign.
• Information about the WV CWT program and BRCHPA's efforts to install our first 3 signs.
• Information about BRCHPA's goal to expand our initial sign efforts into a three-state CWT driving tour.
• No registration fees. All contributions (after expenses) will go towards CWT signage fund.
• Campaign style encampment at the historic Ambrose Chapel. For those who were unwilling to brave the last two years below zero temperatures, the chapel stove will be fired up each night.
2010 Event Schedule!
FRIDAY, January 15, 2010:
2:00-4:00pm - Set-up/Camp life demonstrations
4:00pm - Musket firing demonstrations
5:00pm - Fifes & Drums
5:30-7:00pm - Candlelight Tours
7:30-9:00pm - Fifes & Drums/Multimedia presentation on overall campaign @ Country Inn
SATURDAY, January 16, 2010:
10:00am - Fifes & Drums
11:00am - Musket firing demonstrations
12:00-1:00pm - Cooking/Camp life
1:00pm - Fifes & Drums
2:00pm - Talk on Battle of Bath by Union soldiers
3:00pm - Musket firing demonstrations
5:00pm - Fifes & Drums
5:30-7:00pm - Candlelight Tours
7:30-9:00pm - Fifes & Drums/Multimedia presentation on Battle of Bath @ Country Inn
SUNDAY, January 17, 2010:
10:00am - Fifes & Drums
11:00am - Period church service
12:00-1:00pm - Cooking/Camp life
1:00pm - Fifes & Drums/Musket firing demonstrations
2:00pm - Talk on Battle of Bath by Confederate soldiers
2:30pm - Formal ceremony honoring fallen of both sides
3:00pm - Event ends
CALL TO ARMS!
YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE! We need good able bodied men and women to help out with the candlelight tours and living history throughout the weekend. YOU can say that you had a part in setting up a new Civil War Trail where almost nothing exists to document the trials and hardships borne by our ancestors. YOU can support the BRCHPA's efforts to conduct two evening presentations to the public that will raise their awareness of the events and sites related to the campaign in and around Berkeley Springs and our efforts to create tangible documentation of those events and sites. YOU can personally thank the owners of The Country Inn for being willing to support our cause to educate the public. YOU can enjoy an authentic experience by camping in an 1850 chapel used by the Confederate Army!
A year from now, when we've placed three Civil War Trails signs in Berkeley Springs, we're fully up and running as a registered non-profit, and the "Civil War News" is writing about how a grass-roots organization teamed with the WV CWT program to make a difference in West Virginia, YOU will be able to say, "I was there, I helped do that" by heading the call and supporting the cause.
To those of you who have been with us from the beginning, the founding members of the BRCHPA thank you. It seems like forever, but our efforts are beginning to bear fruit and meaning. Now is the time to redouble our efforts and continue our forward progress! The men of both sides who suffered and died on the long snowy road to Romney deserve nothing less than our best effort.
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EVENT REGISTRATION
See attached:
• REGISTRATION & WAIVER FORMS!
• 2010 press release and event listing for the "Civil War News"
No formal registration fee is required, although we are asking that participants make a donation towards event expenses. This is a bring your own event. We will provide a spot-a-pot at Ambrose Chapel (our primary expense), and firewood and water in the park and at the chapel. You must provide all of your own food.
Separate donations will also be accepted towards the CWT sign fund.
See you in January! ONWARD TO ROMNEY!
Sincerely,
The Bath-Romney Campaign Historical & Preservation Association - Attachments:
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