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Richard Sherman

Greetings,
I have added the event poster and schedule for the Pvt. Harvey Welch Headstone Dedication Ceremony and Preservation of the Union Festival to be held in Gallupville Ny on Friday evening July 20 and all day July 21, 2007.
For historic purposes I have added a brief bio on Pvt. Welch at the end.
If you would like to attend OR provide a program for the event please contact me through this list or at generalsherman1@yahoo.com.
Thanks,
Richard Sherman

PRESERVATION OF THE UNION FESTIVAL
A RAIN OR SHINE EVENT
BRING YOUR OWN LAWN CHAIRS AND BLANKETS!
Individual event tickets are available in advance or at the door
WHILE THEY LAST!!!
July 20th & 21st - Gallupville, NY
Festivities begin at 6 PM Friday July 20th
Camp Vedder Beef Stew Dinner - $7 at the door - PASSPORTS HONORED
MUSIC BY The Knox Traditional Strings
Presentations on The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War and Ellsworth’s Fire Zouaves
Sponsored by the Gallupville Fire Dept. - Old Gallupville Firehouse School St, Gallupville
* ADVANCED TICKETS Contact 518.872.9304 or saskew2@nycap.rr.com

SATURDAY JULY 21st EVENTS
Pvt. HARVEY WELCH Headstone Dedication CEREMONY
9 AM Kump Road – Town of Wright
By permission of The Mayne Family & through the efforts of
The Corporal James Tanner Camp #134 Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War

ALL DAY in the “1865 Hamlet of Gallupville”
Many interesting and informative displays & lectures throughout the Hamlet
Also! PRESIDENT LINCOLN
*OLDE CORNER STORE CHECKERS TOURNAMENT*
**1854 METHODIST CHURCH OPEN HOUSE** Sponsoring …
**The Sons of Union Veterans On-line Genealogy Research Site**

FOOD & BEVERAGES THROUGHOUT THE HAMLET - ALL DAY!!!
WRIGHT Republican Club Chicken DINNER $7.50
TAKE OUT AVAILABLE! - ADVANCE TICKETS - 518.295.7734 or skinner@midtel.net
OR ENJOY THE DEMOCRAT CLUB SAUSAGE PEPPERS & ONIONS
OR TRY THE OLD FIRE HOUSE HOT DOGS AND BURGERS

Saturday Evening At The Gallupville House
PASSPORTS HONORED
Presidential PEACH Shortcake & THEATER
6 PM - Wright Democrat Club Peach Shortcake $5 at the door
*President Lincoln’s Address to the Hamlet * BRING YOUR CAMERA!!
MEET THE PRESIDENT $1 donation - proceeds to The Gallupville House Assoc.
* ADVANCE TICKETS! 518.872.1091 or snowdeersnow@msn.com
8 PM – Uncle Billy’s Balladeers – Celebrating Lincoln & Liberty
$2 - at the door PASSPORTS HONORED
Poetry & Music from the Civil War - interactive theater! Sponsored by the Gallupville House Association - Come ready to sing!
[b]* ADVANCE TICKETS! 518.295.8142 or rsherman4@nycap.rr.com
EVENT PASSPORT TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR ONLY $12.00!
Friday stew & show and Saturday shortcake & show!Information generalsherman1@yahoo.com or http://groups.yahoo.com/group/preservationoftheunion134/

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FRIDAY NIGHT SCHEDULE
The Old Fire House – School Street, Gallupville
6:00 PM - Camp Vedder Beef Stew Dinner - music by The Knox Traditional Strings
7:45 PM - Guest speakers: Welcome to the Harvey Welch Project and Preservation of the Union Festival
SUV Jr. Vice Commander & Harvey Welch Project Chairman Lawrence “Eli” Bradish
Preservation of the Union Festival Event Overview - Event Chairman Richard Sherman
8 PM - Guest Speakers: Local Historian & Researcher Peter Lindemann will present a brief History of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Sons of Union Veterans.
Local Historian & Researcher Richard Sherman will talk about Ellsworth’s Fire Zouaves

SATURDAY SCHEDULE
9 AM – PVT. HARVEY WELCH GRAVESIDE CEREMONY - KUMP ROAD - GALLUPVILLE, NY

11AM – Eileen Patch – "Voice from the Civil War" – from Ms. Patch’s website: - ”Because a grieving mother saved the Civil War letters her son wrote home from his service in the 89th NY, Eileen Patch of Endwell, NY inherited them. She transcribed, researched and annotated the 59 letters. Dressed as her great grandmother, Sarah Englis in historically accurate 1880s clothes, Ms. Patch will look back 20 years to the war and read excerpts from the soldier's letters. The letters, many signed "This from George," are a brief history of service in the 89th New York Regiment from 1861 until 1865 as seen through the eyes of a Corbettsville farm boy. They gradually reveal the personality and values of Sergeant George Magusta Englis; each letter puts the reader closer to the soldier's soul.” Sergeant George Magusta Englis served in the same Company of the 89th NY Volunteers as our Private Harvey Welch. – The Gallupville House

1:00 PM – Ken Jones –Esperence Museum Director and Curator – Speaks on Capt. George Turnbull of the 134th NY Volunteer Regiment – He will also have a display throughout the afternoon of 134th items from the Esperence Museum and his personal collection. – The Old Firehouse

2:30 PM - Dan Houde – Historian and Civil War Reenactor – Freemasonry and the Civil War – The Old Firehouse - Dan will be joined by members of the 77th NY Regiment of Volunteers from Gloversville NY. Talk with the soldiers and learn about their accoutrements and the life of a Union Soldier – Throughout the community

4:00 PM – Gerald Wright – Researcher on Col. Simon Hoosick Mix – Jerry is a descendent of Col. Mix and brings his ancestor’s memory to life. S. Hoosick Mix, of Schoharie, organized the 3d New York Cavalry. The regiment was mustered into service, August 12, 1861. - The Gallupville House

6 PM – Town of Wright Democrat Club - Peach Shortcake – The Gallupville House
PRESIDENT LINCOLN’S ADDDRESS TO THE HAMLET OF GALLUPVILLE
Meet the President $1 Donations to benefit The Gallupville House Association

8 PM – Uncle Billy’s Balladeers Celebrating Lincoln & Liberty – The Gallupville House
Poems and Music from the Civil War - Interactive Theater – COME READY TO SING!

FOOD – BEVERAGES TROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY!!!
ALL DAY LONG!!!!
* Olde Corner Store Checkers Tournament
* 1854 Methodist Church Open House & the Sons of Union Veterans On-Line Genealogy site

DISPLAY AND LECTURE VENUES
Eileen Patch – as Sarah Englis brings us “Voices form the Civil War”- The Gallupville House
Ken Jones – Interesting items of local Civil War history - Old Fire House
The Methodist Church - Old records Display & SUV Genealogy Site – Church & Church Activities Building
Dan Houde – Soldiers Life area – Old Fire House
77th NY Volunteers – move throughout the community
Charlie Slater – Displays family documents and items from his ancestor Pvt. Andrew J. Philhour - Co. C, 2nd Ohio Infantry – The Gallupville House
Many other interesting displays, informative talks and historic characters at the Gallupville House and The Old Fire House & throughout the community[/size]

WHO IS HARVEY WELCH AND HOW DID THIS EVENT COME ABOUT?
In 1961, Allen Burton, town historian, having scoured the back roads, sat down at his typewriter and produced:
SMALL FAMILY CEMETERIES
IN THE TOWN OF WRIGHT
SCHOHARIE COUNTY - NEW YORK
Among those graveyards, Burton noted a “cemetery on the John Kump Farm on Kump Road beside road – about one eight mile on same side as house.” The cemetery contained but one grave, that of Civil War veteran Harvey Welch. Burton noted its condition:
“One stone – off base – no care”
Harvey Welch was born December 5, 1843 in Albany, NY to Morgan L. and Zillah M. (Wilber) Welch. He had two brothers – Alonzo and Eseck – and three sisters – Sarah, Lucina, and Louisa. By 1850 the family was in the Town of Wright, where Harvey’s father worked as a blacksmith.
By 1860 we lose track of Harvey. His mother, with her youngest Alonzo, was living in Silver Lake (Susquehanna County) Pennsylvania.
We next locate Harvey in Hawleyton (Broome County), New York on November 26, 1861. It was there that, just shy of his eighteenth birthday, standing exactly five –and—a-half feet tall, with blue eyes and brown hair, he enlists in the 89th Regiment of Infantry in the State of New York. He joins Company K, the same unit his older brother Eseck had joined two months earlier.
Eseck Welch would be promoted to Corporal, Sergeant, then First Sergeant and would end up in Ohio where he died on January 13, 1905.
The 89th saw action at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Cold Harbor, Petersburgh and was present at Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. Of the 1321 men in the 89th, 159 died of disease or accident; 89 were killed or wounded.
One of the 159 was our Harvey who died at 20 years old, unmarried, on July 17, 1864 from “ulceration of the bowels.”
Some 140 years later [S.U.V.] Brother Richard Sherman, brought Harvey’s plight to the attention of the Corporal James Tanner Camp #134, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. Since then Richard and (S.U.V.] Bro. [Lawrence] Eli Bradish embarked on what has become known as the “Harvey Welch Project [which has culminated in the Ceremony we are sharing here today.] Let it never be said that any “boy in blue” will knowingly suffer the fate of “no care.” Peter J. Lindemann PCC– Author- and Secretary
Corporal Tanner Camp #134 S.U.V. of the Civil War

The Tanner Camp wishes to acknowledge Charles A. Greenfield PCC; for his efforts in securing and erecting the new stone for Pvt. Harvey Welch.[/align][/align]

Scourge of Broome County · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:38 pm Post subject:

Richard.
Unfortnatly its to late for myself to plan on attending. But where abouts is Gallupville?
I have down work with Eileen Patch in the past in fact i just saw her last night and were practicly neighbors.
If you get a chance read here book "This From George"

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Brian W.Swartz