17th Annual Conference on the Art of Command in the Civil War

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1 not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. News Events Membership & Donation Subscribe Forward to a Friend Mosby Heritage Area Association Newsletter - September 2014 Welcome, New Members! On behalf of the Board of Directors, volunteers, and supporters of MHAA, we warmly welcome our new members: Thomas R. Corbin Ronald E. Patterson UPCOMING EVENTS 17th Annual Conference on the Art of Command in the Civil War 1 of 7 11/30/15, 1:05 PM

2 July 1, 1863: Gettysburg The First Day October 3-5, 2014 Middleburg Community Center 300 W. Washington Street Middleburg, Virginia Join this seminal, award-winning conference that focuses on command during the Civil War. This year s focus is the first day at Gettysburg, including a bus tour to Gettysburg on Sunday, October 5th. Featured Speakers: John Rudy Suffering and Calamity Will be Overruled: The Citizens of Gettysburg Gary Gallagher Southern Strategy Behind the Confederacy s Raid North Eric Wittenberg John Buford: The Devil s to Pay Chris Stowe Mission Command Along the Mason Dixon Line: John F. Reynolds During the Gettysburg Campaign Robert K. Krick A Bad Day for Confederates: Davis, O Neal, and Iverson Kim Holien Longstreet s Great Lie on July 1st Stuart Dempsey These Men are Not Cowards: The Eleventh Army Corps Wayne Motts Take That Hill if Practicable: Richard E. Ewell, Robert E. Lee, and the Decision Not to Attack Cemetery Hill on July 1, 1863 Full Registration $425 Friday lectures Saturday lectures, lunch, dinner banquet at Red Fox Inn Sunday Bus Tour, lunch Partial Registration $200 Friday & Saturday lectures, Saturday lunch The best Civil War event every year. I can t imagine not attending. This is the signature annual Civil War event in Northern Virginia. A whirlwind of information in 8 lectures fantastic learning experience. Weekend well spent! REGISTER AT THE MIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY CENTER ON FRIDAY & SATURDAY Virginia Military Institute in the Civil War and the Fighting Berkeley Family of Aldie Sunday, October 19th, 2:00pm Aldie Methodist Church and the Berkeley House John Mosby Hwy (and Berkeley House, John Mosby Hwy) Aldie, VA of 7 11/30/15, 1:05 PM

3 Edmund Berkeley, Jr. Troy Marshall, the site director of the Virginia Museum of the Civil War, part of the Virginia Military Institute, will speak on Legacy of Valor VMI in the Civil War. Local historian Wynne Saffer will introduce us to the fighting Berkeley Family of Aldie which produced four members of the 8th Virginia Regiment and a New Market cadet. Historian and author, Eric Buckland, will discuss two members of Aldie s Berkeley Family: Cadet Cpl. Edmund Berkeley, Jr. 67 wounded at the Battle of New Market in May 1864, and later a Mosby Ranger and Col. Norborne Berkeley, 48 of the 8th Virginia Regiment who was wounded in Pickett s Charge at Gettysburg. Thomas DeLashmutt will host a tour of Berkeley House following the talks at the 3 of 7 11/30/15, 1:05 PM

4 Church. Books will be available for signing and purchase from local authors Dan Morrow, Murder in Lexington and Eric Buckland, Mosby s Keydet Rangers. $25 MHAA members/$35 non-members CLICK HERE for REGISTRATION Save the Date: Nov. 1, 7:30pm Cavaliers, Courage & Coffee Program The Haunted Turnpike Aldie Mill and Village Nov. 9, 3:00pm Conversations in History: 1914: Viewing the Great War from Northern Virginia Talk by John King (owner of a premier Great War material culture collection) Mt. Zion Church Aldie, Virginia Nov. 15, 6:00-8:00pm The Aster Ball Cocktails and the Virginia Reel Historic Rockburn Farm 4 of 7 11/30/15, 1:05 PM

5 Marshall, Virginia Nov. 29, 7:30pm Cavaliers, Courage & Coffee Program The Great Burning Raid Sesquicentennial Silverbrook Farm Bed & Breakfast Hillsboro, Virginia SINCE OUR LAST NEWSLETTER: Conversations in History Lecture Series Service Above Self: Life and Legacy of James Monroe Talk by Scott Harris, Executive Director of the James Monroe Museum, Fredericksburg, Virginia Sunday, September 21, 3:00pm Mt. Zion Church John Mosby Highway Aldie, Virginia Scott Harris brought President James Monroe to life at Mt. Zion Church, just two miles away from Monroe s home, Oak Hill, which he built while in office. Co-sponsored by the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority. Cavaliers, Courage & Coffee Program The Berryville Wagon Train Raid and After Saturday, August 16th, 7:30pm Clarke County Historical Association Museum 32 E. Main Street Berryville, Virginia 5 of 7 11/30/15, 1:05 PM

6 The story of the Berryville Wagon Train Raid of 150 years ago was remembered August 16th during a program of lantern-lit vignettes in downtown Berryville. This raid was conducted by Col. John S. Mosby and his Rangers against a supply train for Gen. Sheridan s Army of the Shenandoah. A running battle began from the north end of town into the streets of Berryville between Mosby s men and call-ups from the Ohio National Guard. Mosby s Rangers made off with the contents of the wagons and a three-month-long reprisal match ensued between the Federals and the Rangers with gruesome results. Co-sponsored by the Clarke County Historical Association. Photo of the Month by J. Riley Stewart "Field of Lace" taken along Edgegrove Road in Loudoun County during our annual Queen Anne's Lace bloom. 6 of 7 11/30/15, 1:05 PM

7 See our monthly chronicle of beautiful scenes from the Mosby Heritage Area at Copyright J Riley Stewart (Contact the photographer at to acquire a print of this scene). Please Like Us on Facebook! The Mosby Heritage Area Association Follow us on 2012 Mosby Heritage Area Association All Rights Reserved P.O. Box 1497, Middleburg, VA us here to unsubscribe to this Newsletter. 7 of 7 11/30/15, 1:05 PM