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By CLINT SCHEMMER
Culpeper Star-Exponent
As spring edges into summer, why not enjoy the outdoors by hiking with a historian on Culpeper Countyâs storied, well-preserved Civil War battlefields?
Culpeper hopes people will jump at the chance to tour its Brandy Station battlefield, and enjoy a catered lunch, with two of the nationâs top experts on the 1863 cavalry fight.
The May 15 occasion is the first in Culpeper Tourismâs âHike with a Historianâ series, which will showcase the Culpeper areaâs historic sites. Proceeds from the May 15 tour, guided by historians Clark B. Hall and Chris Army, will help support future interpretive programs.
Listening to History: Songs of the Civil War and What We Can Learn
Throughout American history, our wars have either popularized or produced songs that remain familiar to us today.
The American Revolution brought us many songs, but only “Yankee Doodle” has stood the test of time. Sung to an old tune and written originally as a song of English derision aimed at Americans during the French and Indian War, patriots of the Revolution took the song for their own, changed the words, and proudly played and sang it in their encampments. “Yankee Doodle” remains the state song of Connecticut.
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Beverley was born about 1740 at his father’s plantation in Essex County, one of two sons and three daughters of William Beverley and Elizabeth Bland Beverley. His brother died young. His father took him to England in 1750 for his education and enrolled him in a school at Wakefield. When Beverley matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, on May 19, 1757, he gave his age as seventeen. Earlier that year he was admitted to the Middle Temple to study law, and he was called to the bar on February 6, 1761. Beverley returned to Virginia almost immediately to manage the enormous estate he had inherited when his father died in 1756, and consequently he never practiced law.