Local History account

The Civil War Returns to Rockville
Jubal Early Marches on Washington City, 1864
Peerless 140^th Anniversary Commemoration Event, June 2004

Peerless Rockville staged another Civil War weekend event to commemorate the 140th anniversary of Jubal Early's army coming to Rockville. Highlights included a Civil War encampment at the Beall-Dawson grounds, ceremonies and lectures, a period baseball game, period music concerts, a theatrical debate on historic topics, and walking and an evening torchlight tours.

The program and pictures from this event appear below.

Program

Friday, June 11, 2004

Reenactors arrive and register, set-up encampment Beall-Dawson Grounds

Saturday, June 12, 2004

Opening Ceremony, 12:00 n Red Brick Courthouse
Civil War Baseball, 2:00 – 4:30 pm Richard Montgomery HS Fields
NY Atlantics Baseball Club vs. team of Montgomery Co. players in 1860 rules baseball.
Reenactors Dinner, 5:00 pm
Period Concert, 6:00 - 7:30 pm, Wildcat and 97^th Regimental Bands Red Brick Courthouse
Torchlight Walking Tours, 7:30 pm Encampment and Vignettes, N. Adams St.

Sunday, June 13, 2004

Period Church Service, 9:30 - 10:15 am Beall-Dawson, Encampment
Ceremony (speakers and music), 12:00 n Red Brick Courthouse
Period Debate, 12:30 – 2:00 pm Grand Courtroom, Red Brick Courthouse
Staged presentation of local historic dignitaries debating period topics of contemporary relevance. Topics:
- Suspension of Writ of Habeas Corpus, Francis Blair and Matthew Field
- Loyalty Oath, Lawrence Dawson and George Peter
- Reunification and Reparations, Richard Johns Bowie and WIlliam Veirs Bouic
Signal Corps Demonstration, 3:00 pm Red Brick Courthouse
Break Camp, 4:00 pm Beall-Dawson, Encampment

Ongoing Activities, Saturday and Sunday

Encampment visits, ad hoc drills Beall-Dawson, Encampment
Period Music, 97^th Regimental String Band, (Sat. & Sun.: 11:30 am & 2:30 pm) Red Brick Courthouse (am), Beall-Dawson Grounds (pm)
Walking Tours of "Rockville in 1864" (Sat. 9:30 am, Sun. 10:30 am) start at Sat.: Red Brick Courthouse; Sun.:Beall Dawson House
Period Children´s Activities with the Yankee Schoolmarm, (Sat. 10:00 am - 5:00 pm) Red Brick Courthouse
Lectures Grand Courtroom, Red Brick Courthouse (2nd floor)
- Dr. B. Franklin Cooling, Keynote address, Sat. ~12:30 - 1:30 pm (following opening ceremony)
  Jubal Early´s Raid on Washington: The Campaign that might have Changed American History - and Did!
- Valerie Smith, Dressing the Family, Sat. 10:30 - 11:15 am
- Michael Virts, Slideshow: Montgomery County Sites of 1864 and Today, Sun. 2:15 - 3:00 pm

Pictures

Memorial Day Parade Unit
(announcing the upcoming Civil War weekend event)

Jub Event '04, Parade front
Photo credit:

Bob Wright, (current) Peerless President, on left waving.

Jub Event '04, Memorial Day Parade
Photo credit:

Saturday, June 12, 2004, General Civil War History

Photo credit: Ann Strine

Tent from the period encampment on the grounds of the Beall-Dawson House (Montgomery County Historical Society).

Jub Event '04, Dr. Colling
Photo credit: Dean Evangelista

Jub Event '04, Dr. Cooling lecturing
Photo credit: Dean Evangelista

Dr. B. Franklin Cooling, keynote speaker and lecturer,
authority on Jubal Early and his 1864 raid on Washington.

Jub Event '04, Dr. Raugh's tent
Photo credit: Ann Strine

Dr. Chuck Raugh makes an interpretive point with young visitors at his period medical tent.

Valerie Smith giving a period clothing lecture and fashion show.

Jub Event '04, Period Clothing Lecture
Photo credit: Ann Strine

Jub Event '04, Mary Ellen Colletti
Photo credit: Ann Strine

Mary Caroline Colletti, event committee member, shows her period style.

Kids activities.

Old game, new player.

Jub Event '04, Playing with hoop
Photo credit: Ann Strine

Sunday, June 13, 2004, Jubal Early Returns and Montgomery County

Jub Event '04, Confederate Reenactors
Photo credit: Ann Strine

Confederate re-enactors taking in some shade.

(Jaimie Rife on leftt)

Jub Event '04, Hugh Clayont Speaking
Photo credit: Dean Evangelista

Hugh Clayton, event committee member and benefactor, speaks at ceremonies. Maryland Division Sons of Confederate Veterans Color Guard in the background. (Burt Hall, Director of Recreations and Parks for the City of Rockville in far background.)

Les Schumacher, event committee member and re-enactor, leads mounts in the historic district.

Jub Event '04, Leading Horses
Photo credit: Ann Strine

Jub Event '04, Period Debate
Photo credit: T. L. Rodgers

Period debate.

Matthew Field (right, played by Steve Snape) debates Francis Blair (left, played by David Hill) on the suspension of Writ of Habeus Corpus.

Charles Jacobs, local Civil War author, authority and event collaborator.

(In the Grand Courtroom of the Red Brick Courthouse.)

Jub Event '04, Charles Jacobs
Photo credit: T. L. Rodgers

Jub Event '04, Senator Forehand
Photo credit: Dean Evangelista

State Senator (and Peeerless member) Jennie Forehand, with husband Bill, get into the spirit of the times.

Kristen --- and Maizie Cummings in a sepia-tone photograph, at the event.

Jub Event '04, Sepiatone
Photo credit: Dean Evangelista

Jub Event '04, McGuckians at ball game
Photo credit: Dean Evangelista

Peerless Executive Director, Eileen McGuckian gets a hand from daughter Emily and grandchildren, to go to bat--literally--at the period baseball game.

Three generations of the McGuckian family.