BGuthrie Photos: MD -- Monocacy Natl Battlefield -- Visitor Center -- Special Exhibit: Rebels and Ransoms: Confederate Retribution

MD -- Monocacy Natl Battlefield -- Visitor Center -- Special Exhibit: Rebels and Ransoms: Confederate Retribution:

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Description of Pictures: "Rebels and Ransoms: Confederate Retribution" New Exhibit at Monocacy National Battlefield
On exhibit July 7 - November 1, 2018
FREDERICK, MD: Monocacy National Battlefield will be opening a new exhibit that examines the towns ransomed by Confederate General Jubal Early in the summer of 1864. For the first time ever, artifacts related to the ransoms of Frederick, Hagerstown, Middletown and Chambersburg will be brought together to explore the economic burden put on civilians in the wake of Early’s campaign.
Created in partnership with the Washington County, Middletown Valley, and Franklin County Historical Societies, the City of Frederick, Heritage Frederick and Main Street Middletown, the exhibit will contain the trunks and baskets that ransom monies were gathered in to be given to the Confederate Army, or in the case of Chambersburg, secreted away. The original ransom documents of Middletown and Frederick will be on display as well as personal items that melted in the fire as a result of Chambersburg’s.
The exhibit will explore some of the more personal stories that are often overshadowed by the military campaign to reveal a resilient people who literally lived in the border between the North and South and had their lives and livelihoods overturned during the Civil War. The exhibit is free to the public and runs from July 7 – November 1, 2018.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. MONORA_181116_005.JPG: Rebels and Ransoms: Confederate Retribution in 1864
2. MONORA_181116_008.JPG: Hagerstown July 6, 1864
3. MONORA_181116_017.JPG: Ransom Receptacles What is the best way to deliver a town's ransom money, or secrete it out of town before the Confederates arrive? The objects in this case all held large sums of money from the towns that were ransomed as part of Early's campaign in Maryland. * The town of Frederick used this basket to deliver its ransom money. * Bankers in Chambersburg used this red trunk when they secreted the money out of town prior to the Confederates' arrival. * The chest at the bottom of this display was used by Hagerstown to deliver the ransom money to the Confederates. * Money for the Middletown ransom was stored in the safe pictured below.
4. MONORA_181116_030.JPG: Uncivilized Warfare
5. MONORA_181116_033.JPG: Uncivilized Warfare Following his stunning drive north, Lieutenant General Jubal Early's II Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, took the Federal supply depot at Harper's Ferry on July 4, and then crossed the Potomac into Maryland on the 5th and 6th. While the bulk of Early's command continued east, the cavalry under Brigadier General John McCausland was sent to ransom Hagerstown in retaliation for Union degradation in the Shenandoah Valley. Early followed suit by ransoming Middletown and Frederick during his march to Washington. Late in July, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania became the target, and was ultimately burned.
6. MONORA_181116_040.JPG: In an attempt to destroy Confederate supply lines, Union forces under Major General David Hunter destroyed storehouse depots, factories, mills, and bridges in the Shenandoah Valley. Railroad tracks and telegraph lines were cut, and the home of John Letcher, the former Virginia governor, and the Virginia Military Institute were burned.
7. MONORA_181116_042.JPG: Colonel David Hunter Strother, 3rd WVA Cavalry, and distant cousin of General Hunter, wrote in his diary about why Hunter's forces destroyed Virginia Military Institute, which was owned by the Commonwealth of Virginia. "... I believed the States Rights conspirators had with subtlety and forethought established and encouraged the school for the express purpose of educating the youth of the country into such opinions as would render them ready and efficient tools wherewith to overthrow the government... This was the great paramount reason for its destruction by fire. There were military reasons besides. The professors and cadets had taken the field against government troops, as an organized corps."
8. MONORA_181116_045.JPG: William H. Beach, 1st NY Cavalry, wrote home about the burning of Letcher's home saying, "Notwithstanding Letcher's proclamation, the men of the regiment could not be made to look upon the burning of private residences as a proper act of war. Nothing was gained by it, as was proved when, a few weeks later, Early entered Maryland."
9. MONORA_181116_047.JPG: 1864 McCausland Ledger This ledger, kept by Treasurer Matthew S. Barber, contains the legal records ransom of Hagerstown. The page to the right contains the list of citizens and merchants who were reimbursed by the city for their contribution toward the ransom.
10. MONORA_181116_053.JPG: 1864 Loan Security Document Found in the wallet of Treasurer Matthew S. Barber, this document lists the names of Hagerstown citizens who signed promissory notes as security on the loan from the Hagerstown Bank.
11. MONORA_181116_059.JPG: Sarah Bell Hall Letter Written on August 11th, 1864, this letter from Sarah Bell Hall to her sister details another Confederate raid after the burning of Chambersburg.
12. MONORA_181116_071.JPG: Chambersburg July 30, 1864
13. MONORA_181116_076.JPG: Sympathetic Soldiers
14. MONORA_181116_079.JPG: Ruins of Chambersburg looking east
15. MONORA_181116_084.JPG: Frederick July 9, 1864
16. MONORA_181116_088.JPG: Fact or Folklore?
17. MONORA_181116_090.JPG: Franklin Savings Bank Ledger
18. MONORA_181116_092.JPG: Franklin Savings Bank Ledger
19. MONORA_181116_096.JPG: Ransom Document Demand for supplies in addition to the requested money
20. MONORA_181116_102.JPG: Ransom Document List of banks with the amount they paid toward the ransom.
21. MONORA_181116_108.JPG: Initial ransom demand from Jubal Early to the City of Frederick
22. MONORA_181116_113.JPG: Letter from Mayor of Frederick to General Early asking for the ransom amount to be lowered, saying the amount requested was, "... one tenth of the taxable property of the city... an onerous burden thrown upon our Citizens..."
23. MONORA_181116_120.JPG: Resolution resulting from town meeting explaining how the ransom demand would be paid.
24. MONORA_181116_126.JPG: Receipt of payment for the ransom demand
25. MONORA_181116_134.JPG: Lavinia Culbertson
26. MONORA_181116_140.JPG: Silverware and Accompanying Photograph Lavinia Culbertson, age 79 in this 1911 picture, returned to Chambersburg after the fire to retrieve this silverware. Her home was destroyed, but the silver, which had been hidden from the Confederates in the basement of her home survived.
27. MONORA_181116_145.JPG: This cup belonged to the family of Barnard Wolff. It was picked up in the cellar of the ruins of his home, on July 31st, the day after the fire.
28. MONORA_181116_148.JPG: This glass medicine bottle became fused onto the shelves of the Nixon Apothecary in Chambersburg during the fire.
29. MONORA_181116_152.JPG: Middletown July 7-8, 1864
30. MONORA_181116_160.JPG: Ransom! Middletown Held Hostage July 8, 1864 The handwritten note in this case bears witness to a critical moment in the town's history. In brief, the Confederate army demanded Middletown pay -- or risk destruction of the town.
31. MONORA_181116_166.JPG: Middletown ransom note
32. MONORA_181116_176.JPG: Flag and Pistol J. Hoke described the following event in his "Historical Reminiscences of THE WAR: In and About Chambersburg" in 1884. According to Hoke, on the morning of the fire, Mr. Jacob L. Brand took the flag (displayed here) that hung in front of Col. Rutherford's headquarters in the Mansion House from its staff and carried it to his home on Queen Street. His sister, Louisa Brand, about 21 years old, took the flag, wrapped it around herself, and with revolver in hand, stood in the front door daring any Confederate to fire the house or disturb the flag. The soldiers passed by the home sparing it from fire.
33. MONORA_181116_184.JPG: Spoils of War
34. MONORA_181116_194.JPG: Unintended Consequences
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