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Saturday June 14
Mt. Zion Old School Baptist Church Saturday, June 14—Evening at Mt. Zion Church in Aldie for overview of the five-day battles. Dedication of plaque to the Northern correspondent buried there in 1863. Overview of the Battles of Aldie, Middleburg and Upperville by Robert O’Neill. In the graveyard adjoining this church, June 23, 1863, Harpers Illustrated Weekly’s Alfred R. Waud, one of the Civil War’s most renowned artists, dug the grave for the burial of his friend, Lynde Walter Buckingham, the chief cavalry correspondent for the New York Herald. Buckingham had spent the day of June 21 covering what would become one of the largest cavalry battles in U.S. history, in and around the villages of Aldie, Middleburg and Upperville. At the front with Union General Kilpatrick throughout the June 21 fight, Buckingham was on his way to Washington with his account of the fighting when Confederate Partisan fighters under Mosby’s command overtook him and caused his horse to dash down a steep hill and throw its rider powerfully to the ground. Buckingham later died of injuries to his skull in a makeshift Union Army hospital within this church. After burying his friend, Waud rode on to Gettysburg, where July 2 and 3 he sketched scenes of the fighting there that continue to shape Americans’ views of that epic battle. It is not known if Lynde Walter Buckingham still lies in the Mt. Zion Church graveyard, or if his family claimed his body some time after the burial. The Society of Professional Journalists hereby designates Mt. Zion Old School Baptist Church and Graveyard a Historic Site in Journalism. For as long as they exist, they will recall the devotion to duty and fellow man that embody the best qualities of America’s war correspondents.
Morning Village of Aldie 10 a.m. Cavalry Skirmish Behind Aldie Mill Aldie Mill – miller, Union infantry, Exhibit on the Civil War in Virginia Presbyterian Church – Union hospital Berkeley House – Civilians in residence Afternoon Furr Farm on Snickersville Turnpike 1 p.m. Battle of Aldie along Turnpike Narrated by Robert O’Neill 3:30 p.m. Wreath-Laying Massachusetts Monument Evening Caleb Rector House 1461 Atoka Road Marshall, Virginia 20115 Cavaliers, Courage and Coffee Program by the Gray Ghost Interpretive Group and Company C of 20th Maine
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Morning National Sporting Library 102 The Plains Road, Middleburg 9 a.m. Horses in the Civil War Edwin Forbes Exhibit Mount Defiance 35945 John Mosby Highway Middleburg, Virginia 20117 10 a.m. Action at Mount Defiance Goose Creek Bridge Lemmons Bottom Road West of Middleburg Company C, 20th Maine storms Goose Creek Bridge Afternoon Buchanan Hall 8549 John Mosby Highway Upperville, Virginia 20185 Noon Tuscarora Brass Band Concert Trappe Road, Upperville Battle of Upperville Calvary
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