The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-02-21
I(By a Trayeler.)

,iIL dttAttStt ID An LIE Ceuttul pdTL Oh
alley Of Virginia between North
mountain ON the western side and
the Elne Ridge on the eastern side.
Ehe valley In some places is thirty
t0 forty miles in width, mostly fertile
lAtid The same valley extends north
6f the Potomac river nearly to Har-
tlsbnrg, Pa. In Pennsylvania Ii IL
galled the Cumberland valley.
z BIOLOGISTS claim that the entire
valley was once q great lake Of three
hdndfed miles In length and by some
crest conyulsion Of nature the Blue
Ridge was rent In TWIN at HarperH
cry The water escaped, forming
the Potomac river, or that there was
q low place In the Blue Ridge which
Nas the overflow OF the lawe-and the
escape 4of the water for millions OF
& Gears wore the rock away down to
Z the present level. II the erosion
amounted to one-sixteentil of an inch
per annun, sixteen Years would wear
B ttway one inch; one hundred and nine
two years would wear away one
: foot two hundred and eighty -eighl
thousand years would wear down If
teen hundred feet
he water runs to the Potomac
from the summit ofsthc Alleghenies-
from above Stanton and for nearly
one hundred miles in the state OF
4 Pennsylvania The early settlers
here were mostly Scotch-Irish and
Pyesbyte while further up the
valley in the counties OF Shenandoah
& and Rockingham they were mostly
Germans and the German language
Sifas used we'll up into the nineteenth
century. Many plinkards are sth,
living in these counties, and have
their lamb broth, unleavened bread
aud foot washings. They wear broad
6tihfmed hats and long hair The fe-
males wear Quaker. bonnets with nc
ribbons and wear no jewelry.
We leave Winchester by. way. Of the
Valley pike, a good road sall the way
tos Staunton and It ought to be good
as the toll for an auto Is four dollars
and stxty five cents mile for ninety
three miles.
Three miles from Winchester the
battle of Kernstcwn occurred, be-
tween General Shields and Stonewall
Jackson on March %, 1862. The bat
lie Was on both sides of the pike
Both sides claimed victory.
tonewall retreated right after the
battle General Shields did not pur-
sue. On every rod ,of the road ac-
cofding to the testimony of the oio
people their boys and girls living on
the pikemore or less fighting took
place for fully one hundred miles.
At Middletown the minnie balls II
the door and window frames Of the
) brick buildings show that there had
Teen danger, htere.
Etlassbury, named by German set
Tiers after that town in. their native
conntry,S had much fighting in and
around the town and was the enc
Of General Sheridan's famous ride
from Winchester in September, 1864
Three miles from Strassburg Is Fish
t.rSs .hilA where General Early made
his last stand in the valley, and me-
With "a most disastrous defeat Some
Hatfison county southern soldiers
were captured here and held as pris'
oners the balance OF the, war.
odstock, the county seat oil
Shenandoah county, thirty-two miles
from Winchester, town OF fifteen
hundred people, has prosperous APP
pearance. Several Harrison county
families came from Woodstock. John
and Regina Davis came to Clarks-
burg from Woodstock about 1920
The Kemble family also came about
the same time. Henry McCord came
to- Harrison county later.
The money to build the first Luth-
seran church in Woodstock was rails
!, ed bysa lottery. General Petre Muh-
leniburg was a minister Of the LIth.
eran church at Woodstock At the
beginning Of the Revolution in 1776
he received his commission of colonel
4 and was requested to raise his regi.
ment among the Germans Of the val.
ley. Having in his pulpit inculcated
the principles of liberty, HE had nc
diMculty In enlisting q regiment. He
entered the pulpit with his sword ant
cockade, preached his farewell ser
mon, and the next day marched at the
head Of his regiment to join the army
His regiment was the eighth Virginia
This regiment behaved with honol
throughout the war They were al
town. In 170l Colonel Muhlenburl
was promoted to the rank Of brigadiel
general He was esteemed and loyet
BY 10th officers and soldiers.
Three miles from woodstock il
the narrow passage railroad bridg,
crossing a ravine and small stream
called Marrow Passage creek, the
bridge lis one, hundred and fifty fee
! above the water. The bridge is 4
short distance, and in plain view Of
the pike. In 1876 a freight train, witt
III passenger car attached i'm the rear
was crossing the bridge. The bridg,
broke down and the whole. train fel
shat great distance. a number belnt
) Killed sbut strange to say, several per
sons in the passenger car were un
hurt.
Mount Jackson, fio1rishing little
town on the pike a few miles fur
ther, has no license to sell whiskey
I hut evidence Of speakeasyies wa.
abundant. A
New, Market, fifty miles from Win
chester, rs a sleepy old place that ha:
not been walked up since the battle
was fought there on May 10, 1854. be
tween General Siegle on the Unio1
+ side and General Breckenridge IL