The Official Newsletter of The WVRA DISPATCH WVRA pamphlets are available. Please help recruit new members! MUST have updated application with membership fees paid. Calendar of Events March 24 History Expo Marion County Court House ~~~~~~~~~~ APRIL 27-29, 2012 WVRA School of the Soldier. Jones/Imboden Raid Pricketts Fort State REMEMBER WHEN~~ This was taken at Dry creek/White Sulpher Springs Park . WVRA April/May Union Encampment. Around Seated on the ground: Robbie Freeman dn Drew Davies Seated in chairs: Jack Rush, Jim Barnes, Jeff Zickefoose, Meeting April 28 at SOS Chuck Critchfield, Pete Collier, Mike Phillips, Mark Tennant. Standing is ~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ Peter Baxter. GREAT PICTURE THANKS CHUCK May 5 WVRA Spring Gala WVRA Reminders...Dues…..Newsletter Deadlines Civil War Ball Clarksburg Christ Episcopal Church Articles, pictures, dates, DUES MUST BE PAID BY information to be included in MARCH EVERY YEAR the Trans-Allegheny WVRA Individual Check Out Our Web Site Dispatch MUST be emailed Membership dues are $15 at: org by APRIL 15 to FAMILY dues are $25 www.wvra. [email protected] printed newsletter is $15 Web Masters Donnie Stewart & ***** mail to : WVRA TREASURER Lisa Johnson Or mailed by APR 10 to: Chuck Critchfield West Virgina Reenactors Jack & Tonya Daft 479 Plum Run Road 608 Skyview Drive Association is now on Facebook Mannington WV 26582 Clarksburg WV 26301 WVR A TR ANS -ALLEGHENY DISPATCH PAGE 2 APRIL 2012 WVRA OFFICERS Need Sutler Information and Civil War Equipment go to WWW.WVRA.ORG President.....Brian Castro IMPORTANT : The WVRA Dispatch needs pictures & articles on 201 Buffalo Street anything else the membership has participated in. We also need Elkins WV 26241 505 977-7103 Civil War articles & information. Please send pictures in JPEG [email protected] format to [email protected] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vice President A large salute and heartfelt thank you goes out to everyone that has supported and William Snyder contributed to the WVRA DISPATCH for the month of MARCH: Thank You Chuck 302 Hedge Street Critchfield, Jack & Tonya Daft,, Mark Tennant, RMBF, HBP, Dora Grubb, MCHS, Clarksburg WV 26301 Matt Gillespie, Phyllis Baxter, Diana George, Dave Lewis, Lisa Johnson, John 304-624-5432 Ziolkowski, Porter Stiles, Gerald Swick,and Richard Wolfe [email protected] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Secretary.....Jack Daft For your sewing needs contact Seamstresses: 479 Plum Run Road Lisa Johnson at 304-365-4328 or [email protected] Mannington WV 26582 304-825-6103 Diane Tennant at 304-363-0935 or [email protected] [email protected] For timely discussions about CW events, cloth- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ing, firearms, and yes, even personalities in the NOTE TO PARTICIPANTS…. WE TRY TO Treasurer hobby, Go To www.authenticcampaigner.com Or LIST VARIOUS EVENTS ON OUR WEB SITE. Chuck Critchfield www.cwreenactors.com THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE WVRA 608 Skyview Drive MEMBERS ARE THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE Clarksburg WV 26301 OF THOSE EVENTS, SO IF YOU HAVE 304-623-5836 Rich Mountain Battlefield PROBLEMS PLEASE CONTACT THE HOST [email protected] Foundation / Historic Beverly OF THAT EVENT. WE HAVE NO CONTROL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Preservation IN SETTING THEIR DATES FOR THEIR Newsletter Editor PO Box 227 Beverly, WV 26253 EVENTS NOR CAN WE PROVIDE Tonya Daft 304-637-7424 INFORMATION FOR THAT EVENT IF WE 479 Plum Run Road HAVE NOT RECEIVED IT. IF WE HAVE Mannington WV 26582 [email protected]. THE INFORMATION IN TIME WE WILL 304-825-6103 www.historicbeverly.org PASS IT ON TO YOU AS SOON AS POSSI- [email protected] SOME WEB SITE INFORMATION CONCERNING THE CIVIL WAR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ www.wvculture.org for WV History Web Masters: Donnie Stewart & Lisa Johnson http://www.wvculture.org/history/medals.html for ancestry info & medals Donnie 304-986-2207 or www.labelle-femme.com women’s clothing Lisa 304-365-4328 Reenactorpost.com 60 East Park MH Village http://www.shasta.com/suesgoodco/newcivilians/index.htm civilian info Fairmont WV 26554 Southernheritage411.com Southern Heritage www.wvra.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://suvcw.org/ Sons of Union Veterans Union Rep: Mark Tennant www.civilwartrails.com Civil War Trails in WV 304-363-0935 http://www.frontiernet/~firstwvcav/ 1st WV Cavalry www.wv150.com Civil War Events in WV 150th CSA .Rep: Tag Ireland www.pawv.org/civilwar150/index.htm Preservation Alliance in WV 304-669-6077 http://wvtourism.com/minisites/civilwar.aspx Artillery Rep: http://www.civilwar150.wv.gov Calvary Rep: John Brasuk GOOD NEWS for MAY: 304-363-5918 HAPPY ANNIVERSARY Tim & Shirley Boggs May 4. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Betty TASAS Rep: Lisa John- Shreve May 4, Lisa Johnson May 5, Carol Watterson May 11, Hannah Barnes May 17. son or Tonya Daft APRIL 2012 WVR A TR ANS -ALLEGHENY DISPATCH PAGE 3 MY POINT OF VIEW, UP DATES, & THANK First and Foremost, it is a great honor to be once again your newsletter editor. I appreciate the fact that you feel I do a good enough job and wish to keep me on. But please understand that this newsletter is not a one person show I really need the help and support of everyone to make it successful. We now have new officers in charge…. please note who your representatives are and please read your emails, newsletters, and check out the information posted on Facebook and the www.wvra.org web site. We are trying to make sure you are informed of everything that is going on, but YOU MUST make the effort to read it, make note of it and PUT IT ON YOUR CALENDAR. Reminder to everyone please get your dues paid to Treasurer Chuck Critchfield $15 individual, $25 family MUST send application with your payment. If you want the newsletter mailed to you then it is $15 extra. MUST be paid ASAP. We are trying to get liability insurance for everyone and therefore need your dues paid on time. Also it is very important to the insurance companies and for various other WVRA paperwork that we have a current, yearly updated WVRA application on every member. This is not rocket science, please take the one minute it takes to fill out an application and send it in with your paid dues. If you did not due this, please fill out an application and make sure the secretary gets it ASAP. Those that have not paid by the April meeting at SoS will be removed from the directory and from the email list. Lisa Johnson has also started Facebook pages for some of our individual units. As always she goes above and beyond her regular duties……. keep up the great work Lisa. Thank you Chuck Critchfield, and all the members that attended the February meeting, for all the EXTRA help in getting the by-laws and WVRA organizational information taken care of. Thank you Lynn Marks, Tag Ireland, Bill Snyder, Tonya Daft, for all your diligent work in reviewing the by- laws, finding the updates, and updating the by-laws. A LARGE thanks you goes out to Drema Snyder for the wonderful Spaghetti Dinner after all our hard work. Rena and Matt Gillespie please get me that info for Sarah's book. The May newsletter is filling up fast. Really want to get it in ASAP for you. And remember I want a signed book for me at the next WVRA meeting. Also trying once again to do a Meet & Greet Our Membership page. Need you to nominate someone (WVRA member) from the Union, Calvary, Artillery, that you would like to know more about. They already have some- one from the Confederate and the Tasas for the next few newsletters Also please send me info about your family, new births, birthdays, anniversaries, achievements you are proud of, sad and good news, for our Family Tidbit area. Still needing stories, old memories, old pictures, new pictures. of places and events that pertain to the Civil war and the WVRA. Recipes, sewing info, soldier info, civilian info. Thanks you for jobs well done, etc. for the newsletter. A LARGE thank you goes out to James Gilbert, Mark Tennant, Kevin Skaggs, Chuck Critchfield, Tim Boggs, Porter Stiles for graciously coming together to help supply information on the various units and their Civil War rosters. The replies were overwhelming and it is great to know that yes some of our emails are being read. I know I send out a lot but it is only to kept you informed and updated. I hate the phrase "no one told me" , and you really can't say that any more because you have been told and sometimes several times over and over. Also thank you Dave Lewis for all the old information that you have provided to us. The updated, voted on, and accepted by-laws will be emailed with this newsletter and those paying extra for mailed newsletters will be mailed a copy of the by-laws today. TONYA, THANKS FOR THE HEADS UP FOR 2012……. GREATLY APPRECIATED ...JOHN ZIOLKOWSKI WVR A TR ANS -ALLEGHENY DISPATCH PAGE 4 A P R I L 2 0 1 2 UPCOMING BEVERLY HERITAGE EVENTS Hi Friends, Please feel free to share this with anyone else who might be interested. Beverly Heritage Center is setting our event calendar for 2012, and we are hoping to substantially increase our "arts" programming for the season. This will in- clude demonstrations of traditional arts/crafts and workshops to share/teach traditional crafts, and period dress living his- tory scenarios. Opportunities for traditional music will include casual music sets for visitors during "living history days"; rotating sets during special events, and a few advertised concerts, usually paired with an event. We will be applying both for Culture & History - Arts Section "Folk and Traditional Arts" grant, and for a Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission grant.