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Colonel Mottrom Dulany Ball Historic Fairfax City, Inc "Preserving the Past. Protecting the Future." the Protecting Past. the "Preserving Volume 12, Issue 3 Summer 2015 Colonel Mottrom Dulany Ball Historic Fairfax City, Inc. by William Page Johnson, II "Fare Fac - Say Do" Executive Officers Mottrom Dulany Ball, of Fairfax County, Fairfax Court House, Sandra S. Wilbur President and Alexandria, Virginia, was a musician, poet, teacher, lawyer, soldier, Deborah E. Mullen Vice-Pres. Albert L. Leightley Treasurer and a founding father of the State of Alaska. Christopher Kelley Secretary Mottrom Dulany Ball, who was known variously as Mott, M. Ann F. Adams Director Dulany, or M.D., was born at Oak Mount, the home of his grandfather, Daniel Linda M. Barringhaus Director Hildie Carney Director French Dulany, in Fairfax County, Virginia on June 23, 1835. Mott was the son of Patricia A. Fabio Director Fairfax, VA 22030 VA Fairfax, Mary D. Gauthier Director Spencer Mottrom Ball and Mary L. Dulany. Both parents were from prominent 10209 Main Street Main 10209 D. Lee Hubbard Director Virginia families. President George Washington is included among their many Hon. Wm. Page Johnson, II Director 1 Sandra S. Wilbur, President Wilbur, S. Sandra John A.C. Keith Director distinguished relatives. Benny Leonard Director Return Address - Historic Fairfax City, Inc. City, Fairfax Historic - Address Return Jenée L. Lindner Director Mott’s early years were spent at his grandfather, Mottrom Ball’s, plantation, Wayne A. Morris Director John P. Murphy Director Woodberry, near Lewinsville, Fairfax County, Virginia. The elder Mottrom Ball Mary Petersen Director was a physician who was educated at the University of Glasgow, in Scotland. The Hon. Penny A. Rood Director Edward C. Trexler, Jr. Director Ball family estate, Vacant Director Woodberry, consisted of 1,200 acres of land, The Newsletter of rectangular in shape, Historic Fairfax City, Inc. 1861-1865 2011-2015 extending north from the Lewinsville Presbyterian Church all the way to the to the The Fare Facs Gazette © 2015 Potomac River. 2, 3 The extensive plantation included a grist Editor: William Page Johnson, II mill, Ball’s Mill, which stood on Scott’s Run. The location is today known as Swink’s Mill.4 Modern day Ball’s Hill Road traces the path of a farm road which ran through the center of Woodberry ending at the family home, Elmwood, on Ball’s Hill, also known as Prospect Hill, just south of Georgetown Pike.5 Politically, Mott’s father, Spencer Mottrom Ball, was an Anti-Jacksonian. As the name implies, this party was opposed to the authoritarian policies of President Andrew Jackson and his Democratic party. Several anti-Jacksonian factions came together to form the Whig party in 1834. Whigs Colonel Mottrom Dulany Ball, 11th Virginia Cavalry E-mail: [email protected] supported the supremacy of Congress over the presidency Photo credit: Unknown Website: www.historicfairfax.org Continued on Page 4 Volume 12, Issue 3 The Fair Facs Gazette Summer 2015 Volume 12, Issue 3 The Fair Facs Gazette Summer 2015 At the Fairfax Museum United Methodist Church’s tribute book. Enjoy 1940s Welcome New Members! Rev. McMurdy. This was followed by a hymn written musical favorites. especially for the occasion by Rev. John Pierpont, and sung to the tune of "Old Hundreth." Speeches were given by and Historic Blenheim... The President & Board of Directors of HFCI Sunday, September 13 extends a hearty welcome to all new HFCI Judge Abram B. Olin of the Supreme Court of the District Fairfax Museum and Visitor Center “We Cannot Be Tame Spectators: Four Centuries of members. of Columbia (now the U.S. District Court), followed by Virginia Women’s History” General's Heintzelman and Farnsworth. A salute was then New Exhibit at Fairfax Museum and Visitor Center: fired by a Union artillery battery positioned nearby. Book talk and signing with author and George Mason Jerry Stein “An Artist’s Story: Civil War Drawings by Edwin University Professor Cynthia A. Kierner. Michael and JoAnne DeMarco The incscription on the Henry Hill monument reads: Bennie Leonard Forbes, March 15 – October 14, 2015 - Fairfax Museum "In memory of the Patriots who fell at Bull and Visitor Center Sunday, October 11 Run, July 21, 1861." “The Founding of Washington, D.C.” The inscription on the Groveton monument reads: The Fairfax Story - Hamill Gallery. Permanent Fairfax Book talk by Kenneth Bowling, Ph.D. from the Federal history exhibition. "In Memory of the Patriots who fell at Congress Project at George Washington University. DUES ALERT Groveton, Aug. 28, 29, & 30, 1862." Fairfax Museum and Visitor Center Sunday, November 8 – SPECIAL LOCATION Historic If you have not paid your annual Historic Fairfax City, The National Park Service now manages the “Second Sunday” Programs Blenheim Inc. dues they are now due. Please remit based on the Manassas National Battlefield Park and maintain the Programs are held at 2 p.m. on the second Sunday of “The End of World War II in the Pacific” schedule below. Annual dues payments should be made monuments erected and dedicated 150 years ago. each month. Unless otherwise noted, programs are held out and sent to: Historic Fairfax City, Inc., 10209 Main Street, Fairfax, VA 22030. at the Fairfax Museum and Visitor Center, 10209 Main Local historian Jim Lewis will examine the final battles of Your annual dues help HFCI to continue to meet its Ball endnotes continued... Street. Free (unless noted). Check back to find out about World War II and the surrender of Japan. basic goal of preserving the unique history of the City 40 additional programs planned throughout the year. Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler, et al, “Letter of General Robert E. Lee to Civil War Interpretive Center at of Fairfax. Tax deductable donations over and above M. Dulany Ball,“ The South in the Building of the Nation, V. 12, (1909), Information: 703-385-8414. p. 80-81,The Southern Publication Society, Richmond, VA. Historic Blenheim dues payments are encouraged. 41 Richmond Whig, June 25, 1861, p. 1, c. 1. 42 Letter of Henry F. Ritter to his Uncle, July 23, 1861, Manassas National Saturday, July 4- Battlefield Park Library, Manassas, VA. Online http://nps-vip.net/ Historic Blenheim Civil War Interpretive Center Program history/letters/ritter.htm 43 Clarke, Charles H., The History Company F, 1st Regiment Rhode Island Independence Day Celebration – Special Hours: 9 a.m. – Series Programs are free and held at 2 p.m. on Saturdays Volunteers, © 1891, B.W Pearce, Printer, Newport, R.I. 44 Daily Dispatch, August 9, 1861, p. 2, c. 4. 4 p.m. See the Virginia Civil War HistoryMobile and (unless otherwise noted) at the Civil War Interpretive 45 The Watkinson Library & College Archives, Trinity College, Hartford a special display of Fairfax police and fire uniforms. Center at Historic Blenheim, 3610 Old Lee Highway. CT. Online http://commons.trincoll.edu/rring/category/uncategorized/ Visit us on the web: 46 Brooklyn Daily Eagle, October 14, 1883, p. 5, c. 3. Free cake and lemonade!!! Information: 703-591-0560. 47 Letters of Thomas J. Goree to Mary Frances Goree Kittrell, August 23, 1861. Cutrer, Thomas W., (Ed.), Longstreet’s Aide: The Civil War HFCI Website! Letters of Major Thomas J. Goree, © 1995, University of Virginia Press, Sunday, July 12— SPECIAL LOCATION Historic Saturday June 27 2 p.m. Charlottesville, VA. http://www.historicfairfax.org 48 Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, Ser. 2, v. 3, Letter of M. Blenheim “Juneteenth, from the Perspective of Enslaved Dulany Ball to L.P. Walker, Secretary of War, August 19, 1861, © 1893, People” U.S. Govt. Prntg. Ofc., Wash., D.C. “Fortune’s Fool ” 49 Record Group No. 109, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Virginia, M.D. Ball, Dr. Spencer Crew, will explore “Juneteenth”—the oldest National Archives and Records Administration, Wash., D.C. Book talk and signing with Northern Virginia Community 50 Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, Ser. 1, V. 51, pt. 2, © College Professor Terry Alford on his new book about known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery 1897, U.S. Govt. Prntg. Ofc., Wash., D.C. 51 Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861- John Wilkes Booth, who killed President Abraham Lincoln. in the United States. This celebration dates back to June 1865, © 1904, U.S. Govt., Prntg. Ofc., Wash., D.C. In the Next Issue... 52 O.R., Ser.1, Vol. 29, pt. 1, pp. 982 – 983, Report of Brigadier General 19, 1865, when Union soldiers landed in Texas and Michael Corcoran, © 1890, U.S. Govt. Prntg. Ofc., Wash., D.C. Sunday, August 9 – SPECIAL LOCATION Historic announced to slaves that they were free. Dr. Crew is 53 Daily Dispatch, April 21, 2864, p. 1, c. 3. The role of Colonel Mottrom Dulany Ball in the 54 Record Group No. 109, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Blenheim Robinson Professor of American, African American and founding of Alaska will conclude in the next issue of Who Served in Organizations from the State of Virginia, Col. Oliver R. “World War II Veterans Tribute”- Hear the stories of Funsten, N.A.R.A., Wash., DC. Public History George Mason University. the Fare Facs Gazette. 55 McDonald, William N., A History of the Laurel Brigade, © 1907, Sun Fairfax’s World War II veterans profiled in the Fairfax Job Printing Office, Balt., MD. 2 Continued next page 19 Volume 12, Issue 3 The Fair Facs Gazette Summer 2015 Volume 12, Issue 3 The Fair Facs Gazette Summer 2015 Fairfax Court House News Saturday, July 25, 2 p.m. Location: Meet at Fairfax Museum and Visitors center, “The Road to Ford’s Theatre, Abraham Lincoln’s 10209 Main Street, Fairfax 703-385-8414.
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