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McClellan made the most ofit.As McClellan madethemost an Americanarmy inthefield,and technology neverbefore usedby telegraph to magnifyhis success.Itwas McClellanskillfullyworked the General —but they hadhuge politicalimpact. skirmishesby later standards affairs—mere FordCorricks inJuneandJuly1861 were small Unionvictoriespromptly ofthewar. wonthefirst Western to theUnion.” McClellan’s forces Baltimore &OhioRailroadthe vital and“secure Ohio, launchedaninvasion onMay 27 to protect ofthe McClellan, commandingtheDepartment would beacampaignofhistoric firsts. It ofothers. E.Lee,andahost McClellan, Robert George whoshapedhistory: armies andleaders becameaprovingas ourmountains ground for Virginia drama wasthesettingfor unparalleled CampaignoftheCivilWar.ca’s First past—the butoverlooked chapter ofAmeri an important and civilians The revealedfaded words of soldiers scripts, diariesandchronicles were uncovered. long treasure manu huntensued,asmusty battlefieldsouthofElkins.Adecades- Mountain CivilWar bulletontheRich of adirt-encrusted M l i c n u o C s e i The t i n a m u H a i n i g r i V t s e W e h t f o n o i t a c i l b u P A mountains ofWestern Virginia,nowWestmountains Virginia.HunterLesserhasmade nearly alifelong studyofthat little known First Campaign.Thefollowing drawsfromhislecturelittle knownFirst onthesubjectfor theSesquicentennial These battles at Philippi, Rich Mountain and These battlesatPhilippi,RichMountain GeorgeThirty-four-year-old MajorGeneral B. The yearwas1861, andrugged Western The Battle of Rich Mountain, from The Battleof Rich Mountain, the openingroundofbloodyconflict.Asithappens,some oftheearliestbattles were fought inthe The SesquicentennialoftheCivilWar beginsthisyear, asAmericansobservethe150th of anniversary fired by thediscovery began asayouth, story y involvement withthis

Speakers BureauSpeakers oftheWest VirginiaHumanitiesCouncil. Forgotten First Harper’s Weekly Harper’s - - . to save thecapital. now the“Young Napoleon,”wasquicklysummoned at Manassas,nearWashington. George McClellan, ashockingdefeatder anothercommandersuffered Unionforces atRichMountain, un landmark victory cable. OnJuly21, ten McClellan’s just days after battlefieldhero.North’s Thetimingwasimpec first a result, hebecameanovernight sensation—the Lee might “strike a decisive blow” to adecisiveblow” Lee might“strike Davisate hopedthat President Jefferson E.Leerode west from Richmond.ConfederRobert Union andto theConfederacy. ing andoneinRichmond,respectively loyal to the governments,Virginia oneinWheel hadtwostate “Restored Government ofVirginia” wasborn.Now in conventions atWheeling.By June20,1861, the army thatprotectederal loyal delegates gathered As McClellan headed east for Washington,As McClellanheadedeast General behindinWestern Virginia aFedMcClellan left Campaign Continued onpage 3 - - - - - The Humanities Council Southern Magic is a nonprofit organization governed by its board of hen I was asked to speak at a writers forum at Chief Logan State Park directors. Win early May, it took me about two seconds to accept. Apart from the joy of being back in the southern mountains in the springtime, it seemed a Stephen Hopta great opportunity to let go about my favorite literary theories. President So I lost no time in telling my audience that I’ve always thought that James W. Rowley southern West Virginia is a remarkably rich field for writers. There is no President Emeritus shortage of material. Apart from great personal tales – ask Homer Hickam – our southern counties have two of the biggest stories in the world in John Jean Beasley Henry and the Hatfield-McCoy Feud. These sagas, lavishly compounded of Athens George I. Brown history and folklore, are known every place the English language is spoken. Clarksburg Bill Dillon of Summers County makes the point more vividly than I can, Stan Cavendish when he tells of his experience as a young man serving far from home in Charleston the U. S. Marines. The other boys had never heard of Hinton or Summers Jay Cole County, and certainly not Talcott or Alderson. Many of them scarcely knew Morgantown where West Virginia was. Sarah Denman But when Bill told them he was from John Henry’s home town, they all Huntington knew what he was talking about. Cicero Fain There is a magic in strong, simple stories, rooted in local culture and Huntington universal human experience. Witness the many books, movies, recordings Ken Fones-Wolf Morgantown and plays about the Feud and the John Henry story, literally hundreds by Marie Foster Gnage the last count I saw. My hope in reminding local writers of the riches around Parkersburg them was that other interpretations might arise from these great themes, Larry Grimes from the people closest to the material. Bethany After all, who is better qualified to tell our stories? Julie Ritchie Gurtis — Ken Sullivan Ravenswood Eleanor Heishman People & Mountains is published Ken Sullivan Executive Director Moorefield three times a year by the West Virginia Kim Duff Fiscal Officer Frances Hensley Humanities Council. Cheryl Marsh Operations Manager Huntington Carol Nutter Secretary A state affiliate of the National Endowment Karl C. Lilly III Mark Payne Program Officer for the Humanities, the West Virginia Sissonville Amy Saunders Grants Administrator Tia C. McMillan Humanities Council serves West Virginia through grants and direct programs in the Debby Sonis Administrator Martinsburg humanities. Michelle Walker Director of Development Kristina Olson Morgantown We welcome letters, comments, and e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia Paul Papadopoulos financial contributions. Please address all Becky Calwell Editor Charleston correspondence to West Virginia Mike Keller Media Editor Humanities Council, 1310 Kanawha Elisabeth H. Rose www.wvencyclopedia.org Boulevard, East, Charleston, WV 25301 Independence or [email protected]. A.C. Designs Publication Design Sharon H. Rowe Lewisburg The Board of Directors welcomes three new members elected at the Norman W. Shumate III Council’s recent meeting in Parkersburg: Jean Dressler Beasley of Athens Charleston is a graduate of Marshall University and the West Virginia University Raymond W. Smock Shepherdstown College of Law. She has taught Business Law, Latin, and English, and Karen Stakem worked as a volunteer for numerous organizations. John J. K. “Jay” Wheeling Cole, a graduate of WVU and the WVU Honors College, serves as chief Victor Thacker of staff for WVU President Jim Clements. Cole’s career in public policy Elkins and education has spanned nearly two decades and several states. Larry Grimes, Director of Church Relations at Bethany College, is a graduate of Next Board Meeting: Bethany, Yale Divinity School, and Emory University. We thank departing July 22, Shepherdstown. board members Hannah Geffert of Martinsburg, Kay Goodwin of Open to the public. Charleston, Dee Kapourales of Williamson, and Albert Walker of Bluefield for their years of service. e-WV: The West Virginia EncyclopediaPeople & Mountains has carried the Mountain 23 State story to 146 countries around the world. Visit at wvencyclopedia.org Continued from page 1 Union volunteers from the Midwest and Confederates drive the Union invaders from the mountains. It was from the Deep South. As brothers clashed, a bru- Lee’s first campaign of the war. tal guerrilla war erupted in these mountains, led by Lee eyed a Union fortress blocking the turnpike fearsome bushwhackers who picked off soldiers from over Cheat Mountain, near the Randolph-Pocahontas the laurel thickets. A few of the worst were women, county boundary at an elevation exceeding 4,000 including the legendary Nancy Hart, “deadly as a cop- feet. As he prepared an assault, the fates intervened. perhead snake.” First came the weather—weeks of rain, and even Civilians suffered terribly. Armies robbed and pil- snow in August. Next came epidemics of measles laged farms and carted “disloyal” residents off to and typhoid fever. His army was reduced to half- military prisons. Laura Jackson Arnold, a noted nurse, strength. Hundreds of Confederate soldiers were bur- claimed she could heal the wounded Federals as ied in shallow, unmarked graves, and remain there to fast as her brother “Stonewall” Jackson could wound this day. them. Despite the hardships, Lee’s Confederates pene- African-Americans served both armies. Confederate trated the wilderness to surround Cheat Summit Fort officers brought slaves or “body servants” to cook and on September 12, 1861, but inexperienced officers perform camp chores, while Union officers hired free failed to carry out his elaborate plan. The assault blacks for the same tasks. At least one black man at- broke down, and the Confederates were driven back. tempted to grab a musket in the battle at Rich Moun- Moving south to the New River Valley in late Sep- tain, but it would be more than a year before others tember, Lee hoped to use the independent Confed- like him could join the Union army to fight for their erate commands of Generals Henry Wise and John freedom. Robert E. Lee left Western Virginia in defeat. Southern newspapers christened him "Granny Lee." Floyd to defeat Union forces based at Gauley Bridge. The First Campaign was truly a proving ground. Wise and Floyd were former Virginia governors, Veterans, many of whom spent the terrible winter of ancient political rivals who bickered and fought like 1861-62 on the crest of the Alleghenies, later called schoolboys. In the end, it was all a forlorn hope for it the “severest campaign” of the war. A surprising General Lee. number went on to serve in legendary combat units By the end of October, Lee left Western Virginia in North and South. defeat. Southern newspapers claimed he had been Abetted by Union victories, daring delegates had or- outgeneraled and christened him “Granny Lee.” ganized the loyal Virginia state government in Wheel- Adding injury to insult, on October 24 the citizens of ing and used it to forge the new state of West Virginia. Western Virginia voted to approve the formation of a President Lincoln signed the statehood bill as an new state, loyal to the —our own West “expedient” act of wartime. There is no other like it. Virginia, which would enter the Union less than two Finally, the campaign shaped the careers of two years later. generals who ultimately led their respective armies— The armies of the First Campaign were made up of George McClellan and Robert E. Lee. McClellan’s victo- volunteers from many walks of life. Many would go ries here rocketed him to Union General-in-Chief, while on to become famous: Generals , a mud-spattered Lee left the mountains in defeat. It and Edward “Allegheny” Johnson, map- was a great irony of the war, and a year later their for- maker and future industrialist Jed Hotchkiss, future tunes had reversed. Lee, unlike McClellan, had learned Presidents Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley, valuable lessons in leadership from the forgotten First writer , and others. Campaign. Virginia troops fought on both sides, joined by — Hunter Lesser

Hunter Lesser speaks on “The Forgotten First Campaign” on September 17, 7 p.m., at the Hillsboro Public Library. Other Sesquicentiennial speakers and topics include: ● Concord University's David Bard, New River Valley Civil War battle sites, May 26, 6 p.m., Tamarack, Beckley. ● State Archives Director Joe Geiger, West Virginia statehood, June 2, 7 p.m., Mineral County’s Frankfort High School; and August 20, 10 a.m., Lost River Museum in Hardy County. ● Mark Snell of Shepherd University, causes of the Civil War, July 6, 7 p.m., Historic Presbyterian Church, Huntersville; and September 20, 7 p.m., O’Hurley’s General Store, Shepherdstown. ●WVU’s Connie Park Rice, slavery, abolition, and the Underground Railroad, September 23, 7 p.m., Hampshire County Public Library, Romney. e-WV: The West Virginia EncyclopediaPeople & Mountains has carried the Mountain 23 State story to 146 countries3 around theSpring world. 2011 Visit at wvencyclopedia.org John Marshall Scholar Jean Edward Smith (left) of Marshall University greets National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman James Leach. Chairman Leach spoke in Huntington and Charleston during his recent visit to West Virginia. Michael Keller Michael

Humanities Council Fellowships are awarded annually to college faculty and independent scholars for research and Walter, Wilbur and Wilson writing projects within the humanities. The The West Virginia Humanities Council, the West awards, which provide scholars a $2,500 Virginia Symphony Orchestra, and other partners stipend, are unique in West Virginia. recently supported the publication of a unique The 2011 Humanities Fellows and their book by students at Flinn Elementary School in subjects are Tyler Boulware, Morgantown, Kanawha County. The Three Little Pigs Visit West Native Americans and Friendship in Early Virginia is a hard-cover children’s book by the America; Boyd Creasman, Buckhannon, A “writers and illustrators in Ms. (Sharon) Adkins’ Study of the Fiction of Jayne Anne Phillips; Second Grade Class.” It describes a West Virginia Burnis Morris, Huntington, The Mis- vacation enjoyed by pigs Walter, Education of the Negro — Revisited; Robert Wilbur and Wilson Wiggle. G. Parkinson, Shepherdstown, The Common The project was part of Cause; Erik Root, West Liberty, John Locke a larger grant award from and the Political Philosophy of Alexander the Humanities Council Campbell; Robert Whetsell, Elkins, The Land to the symphony for its No One Wanted: The Monongahela National “Appalachian Reflections” Forest; John Whitehead, Wheeling, The initiative that involved Films of Mike Nichols; and David Woodward, more than 2,800 Huntington, The U.S. Army in World War I. students in nine The next Fellowships deadline is February counties. 1, 2012. Applications are available at

Laura Barry, WVSO Laura Barry, wvhumanities.org; from saunders@ Jordan Phillips is among the student authors. wvhumanities.org; or by calling (304)346- 8500. Steamboat Bicentennial This year marks the bicentennial of the use of steamboats on America’s inland waterways. The steamboat New Orleans, built by Robert Fulton and others, made a successful trip down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans in 1811. The New Orleans was soon followed by many other steamboats, including the Washington, built in Wheeling in 1816 and depicted on a U.S. postage stamp in 1989. The Humanities Council recently awarded grants to Oglebay Institute in Wheeling and the Huntington Museum of Art to mount major exhibits celebrating the bicentennial The steamboat Washington. event. The Oglebay Mansion Museum exhibit, In Their Wake: Wheeling and the Steamboat Revolution, illustrates changes that took place in Wheeling during the era of steamboats through photographs and artifacts and is on view through October 16. Call (304)242-7272 or visit www.oionline.com. The Huntington Museum of Art’s On Inland Waters commemorates the history of the steamboat and includes photographs and steamboat memorabilia, as well as china, glassware, and maps from the museum’s permanent collection. The exhibit opens September 12 and runs through November 6. For more information visit www.hmoa.org.

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People & Mountains 45 Graveyard Exploration Briefs The Little Lecture series continues with West Virginia The West Virginia Symphony Orchestra conductor Grant Cooper’s program Humanities Council board of on May 22. The final lecture in the series takes place directors recently approved on June 26 when WVU College of Law professor and a grant for a cemetery state constitution scholar Bob Bastress addresses recent history project at Franklin in questions about gubernatorial succession. Both programs Pendleton County. In 1809, begin at 2:00 p.m. at the MacFarland-Hubbard House in town founder Francis Evick Charleston. Call 304-346-8500 for information. deeded 2½ acres of land to Franklin. The plot The Great Textbook War, a radio documen- included the Mount Hiser tary produced with support from the Hu- Cemetery as well as a manities Council, was named a 2011 Alfred church. Over the years the A Mount Hiser tombstone. I. Dupont-Columbia University Award winner cemetery has fallen into for excellence in broadcast journalism. The disrepair. The restoration of the historic cemetery documentary also received the Peabody has been the focus of recent community efforts Award and regional and national Edward R. to preserve the town’s history and heritage. Murrow awards for its coverage of the 1974 Council funds will help establish the cemetery battle over Kanawha County textbooks that boundaries, reclaim the land, and locate the some believed undermined Christian values. burial site of Francis Evick and other gravesites through the use of ground penetrating radar. The National Trust for Historic Preservation offers a Diversity Scholarship Program for 60 participants to at- The Contemporary American Theater tend its National Preservation Conference, October 19- Festival at Shepherd University invites its 22, in Buffalo, New York. The program provides financial audiences to “Think Theater.” The innovative assistance for community leaders from diverse social, festival, which celebrates its 21st season economic, racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Attend- this year, focuses on new works by American ees will learn how to preserve historic sites and revitalize playwrights. In addition to its repertory of communities. Applications, due by June 1, should be plays, the Shepherdstown group presents submitted electronically. Contact [email protected] for free tent lectures, post-show discussions, more information. and staged readings each season. The West Virginia Humanities Council funds these The West Virginia Humanities Council grants program popular programming elements. serves West Virginians at home and abroad. A recent Council-funded teacher institute took place in Elkins and India, and this June Christina E. Franzen of Marshall University will travel to Israel via a Council travel assis- The Talk Theater Lecture Series takes tance grant to assist in directing the Tel Dor archeological place on Saturdays – July 9, 16, 23, and excavation. To learn more about Humanities Council grant 30 – at 4:30 p.m. Following weekday opportunities contact [email protected], visit performances, audience members may also www.wvhumanities.org, or call (304)346-8500. participate in “Post-Show Discussions” with artists and experts, and stage readings of The election returns are in, and we welcome the follow- new plays are presented at 7:00 p.m. at the ing new and returning members to the Humanities Council Shepherdstown Opera House on Tuesdays program committee: Robert Enoch, president of the Wood – July 12, 19, and 26. For a complete County Historical and Preservation Society; A. Waller schedule visit www.CATF.org. Hastings, who chairs the Humanities Department at West Liberty University; Myra Ziegler, director of the Summers All West Virginia Humanities Council grant County Public Library; and returning member Kevin Barks- recipients must submit a DUNS (Data dale, who teaches American history at Marshall University. Universal Numbering System) number to The Council’s program committee oversees the review of receive payment. This is used by the federal grant applications and program activities. We thank de- government to track how federal money is parting members Robert Bridges, Sallye Clark, and Pauline disbursed. For more information contact Sturgill. [email protected].

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Michael Patton, Billy Dean and Kevin Lemon at work on the MacFarland-Hubbard House drive. Groundbreaking Improvements n honor of the 175th anniversary of the 1836 beds, extensive plantings, re-sodding the lawn, and the IMacFarland-Hubbard House, the Humanities Coun- installation of a water-conserving irrigation system. cil has undertaken restoration of the grounds of its “Hardscape is a new word we learned from Joe,” historic headquarters property. Sullivan said. “Lots of grading, concrete, bricks and “In recent years we have put the house and adjoin- mortar. That’s all finished. The key to getting that work ing carriage house in good shape, with the support of started was a much-appreciated Cultural Facilities hundreds of donors,” said Executive Director Ken Sul- grant from the Commission on the Arts at the West livan. “What remains now are the environs. We have Virginia Division of Culture and History. With their maintained the lawn and its many specimen trees, example before us, the matching funds came pretty kept the place up to decent standards, but we haven’t quickly.” He noted that additional supporters included really attempted to recapture the historic beauty of BrickStreet Insurance, the Blanche E. Jacobson Foun- the grounds. Our big anniversary is a great time for dation, the H. B. Wehrle Foundation, and other con- that.” tributors including a generous anonymous donor. Landscape architect Joe Young has divided the The landscape phase will begin this fall, funding per- project into two phases. The first phase is the “hard- mitting. “We are calling it seed money, considering the scape,” including the driveway, public sidewalk, the nature of the project,” Sullivan said. “The hardscape is historic brick walk leading to the house, and associ- done and paid for now, and from here on donors may ated drainage improvements. The second phase is be assured that their contributions will go into green, the landscape, including the restoration of garden growing things.”

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