The Best Civil War Story - Chapter 10 by Jim Surkamp Chillin' With Stonewall
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Only some young men came home alive from the “Baptism of Fire” at Bull Run.
Then, war came to Shepherdstown homes and families in the fall of 1861.
R. D. Shepherd, Jr. was taken away to Old Capitol Prison, while his wife and sister in law watched - mute.
In December, 1861 the two armies had gone into winter quarters, unless. . .
you worked for Gen. Stonewall Jackson
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Chapter 10: A Love-Prospecting Henry Kyd Douglas Writes Tippie Boteler from a 2nd Virginia Infantry Encampment Amid the Worst Winter Weather Conditions in West Virginia, Yet Perhaps Unable to Warm Her Heart.
January, 1862 – A Chilling Account of “Stonewall” Soldierhood
Credits:
With support from American Public University System (apus.edu). (The sentiments in this production do not in any way reflect modern-day policies of APUS).
Actors:
Bill Caldwell
Jim Surkamp
Musicians:
Cam Millar - “Beauties 2,” “Breath Circle 2,” “Rock Wood Water 3,” Civil War field drum, “Snow Storm 3,” - (cammillar.com)
Shana Aisenberg - banjo - (shanasongs.com)
Sound FX:
crackling fire, wagon on road, wind storm, gavel - from “free sfx.uk.com”
Main References:
The Papers of Henry Kyd Douglas - Perkins Manuscript Division - Duke University
part of paragraph one - Julia Pendleton Allen Civil War Letter. A Confederate Officer's Wife in Winchester, Virginia
Virginia Military Institute Archives. VMI Collection note: The original letter is privately owned. The owner provided the VMI Archives with a copy of the original and granted us permission to publish the letter on our website, so that its content could be made available to researchers.
The Daltons: Or, Three Roads in Life. Published 1859 by Chapman and Hall.
Main Image Credits:
The Pension Claim Agent Eastman Johnson - 1867
Beyer, Edward. (1858). “Album of Virginia” Richmond, VA.: published by s.n. - Rockfish Gap and the Mountain House
Les chevreuils dans la neige, Gustave Courbet, huile sur toile, 54 x 72,5 cm, musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France. Date circa 1866
Napoleon's retreat from Pontin's Southport by Adolph Northen
Horace reading before Maecenas by Fyodor Bronnikov
Horace, portrayed by Giacomo Di Chirico - wikipedia.org
Frozen Wappingers Falls, New York State
The Mud March, Giovanni Ponticelli
Mud March - Harpers Weekly, March 19 1864.
Baden-Baden, view from conversation house, around 1850
Charles J. Faulkner - wikipedia.org
William W. Loring - wikipedia,org
The Vidette - from “The long roll” by Mary Johnston; with illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. Published 1911 by Houghton Mifflin Co., Riverside Press in Boston, Cambridge. p. 642.
Edwin Forbes sketch of a Civil War Soldier in Winter Camp. - Library of Congress
Rainy Day in Camp (also known as Camp near Yorktown) by Winslow Homer.
Winter quarters on the Rappahannock- army huts of the One Hundred and Nineteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, near Falmouth, Va. Frank Leslie’s “Famous Leaders and Battle Scenes of the Civil War.” (New York, NY: Mrs. Frank Leslie, 1896).
Winter bivouac - “Battles and Leaders. Vol. 1.” (1887). Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buel (Ed.). New York, NY: Century Co. p. 483.
Map showing Bath, Va. and the surrounding region - “Battles and Leaders. Vol. 2″. (1887). Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buel (Ed.). New York, NY: Century Co. p. 284.
Men sleeping; Men standing in the cold - Horace Carpenter. “Experiences of War Prisoners. Plain Living at Johnson's Island.” The Century; a popular quarterly Volume 0041 Issue 5 (Mar 1891). p. 705; p. 711.
Autumn Scene in the North Carolina Mountains by William Aiken Walker
Sherry Sir? 1890 by Thomas Waterman Wood
Autumn Leaves 1870 by Thomas Waterman Wood
Autumn Scene on the Edge of A Cornfield by William Aiken Walker
Lying man, sick and thin - T. H. Mann. “A Yankee in Andersonville.” The Century; a popular quarterly Volume 0040 Issue 3 (July 1890). p. 447.
Harper's Weekly, September 7, 1861, p. 569.
Winchester, Va. during Civil War - The National Park Service
A Visit from the Old Mistress 1876 by Winslow Homer
(detail) Girl Eating Oysters by Jan Steen
Ear of rye - wikipedia.org
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