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    1. [Berkeley Co WV] Berkeley County during the 1863 Gettysburg campaign
    2. I am interested in Berkeley County's role in the Gettysburg campaign. Bunker Hill is described by a southern soldier as having only four houses. Martinsburg included a large building with a brick floor - possibly a marketplace - where soldiers were billeted; the Methodist Church, which was used as a hospital; at least one hotel; and of course the railroad shops where one battery remounted its guns using the furnace and rail iron. What was the population of Martinsburg in 1863? From soldier accounts, I calculate that about 60 percent of Martinsburg citizens were Union loyalists, while 40 percent sympathized with the Confederacy. A southern artillery battery bivouacked on the farm of Hon. Charles James Faulkner. Southern loyalists in the town of Martinsburg included a Dr. Hunter; Mrs. Buchanan, who nursed the wounded Colonel Collett Leventhorpe; Mr. and Mrs. Conrad (along their daughters Jane and Nannie); and Dr. Pendleton - what else is known about these individuals? Thanks, Tom Elmore

    04/16/2014 07:25:11