Military Music from the age of Lewis and Clarke  Let me take advantage of
the 'L&C' note to announce the availability of about 16-20 musical
selections from that time.  (I have not finished the collection yet, so
don't know how many I'll put in.)  Lest you think this is blatant
commercialism, I plan to make the collection available to anybody who wants
it FREE.  They short  selections are arranged for the military band of the
day AKA 'Harmonie Musick.'  This was about 40 years before Adolph Sax swept
the world with his valved brass instruments (saxhorns) which became the
hallmark of Civil War Bands, so European and American military bands
consisted of two clarinets, two natural horns (think hunting horns), and a
serpent horn.  It is a delightful sound, and I think will add greatly to any
celebration of events of the 1800-1810.  (Truth be known, things musical
moved slowly for the next decade, and if I'm around about 2012, I'll recycle
the same music as 'Military Music from the War of 1812.')  The music can be
played on modern instruments, in case you do not have a brace of hunting
horns or a serpent horn handy.  I hope to put it all together by July or
August this year.  Send me a note if you are interested.  Tunes will include
'March of the Riflemen', 'The President's March', 'The Dusky Night', 'The
Acquisition of Louisiana', 'La Marseillaise', 'Jefferson and Liberty', 'To
Anacreon in Heaven' (which probably had more sets of American words written
to it than any other early tune, culminating in the poem that Francis Scott
Key wrote in Baltimore), 'Belleisle March', 'American Commerce and Freedom',
etc.  If you have a favorite tune from that era, send it to me (at least the
melody), and I'll include it.

Randy Cabell
Band of the 19th Virginia Heavy Arty Bn
Boyce, Virgnia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Johnson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 4:15 PM
Subject: Meriwether Lewis returning through Virginia


> Hi, all--
>
> I've got a research question with which I'm hoping you can help me.
>
> In November/December 1806, Meriwether Lewis made the last leg of his
return journey from St. Louis to Washington (Clark was in a different party
at that stage), bringing with him among others the Mandan chief Sheheke (or
Shahaka), whose name is often translated as Big White or White Coyote.
Published documentary evidence shows their return trip should have taken
them through Virginia via the Cumberland Gap and up through Abingdon,
Botetourt County, Staunton, and Charlottesville.
>
> I'm trying to confirm this route and get any details of those stopovers in
towns through Virginia, and after perusing quite a bit of the more
widely-published literature (Donald Jackson's Letters of the Lewis & Clark
Expedition, the Journals of the expedition, etc.) I've looked over a number
of newspapers from the period as indexed by the Virginia Newspaper Project
but haven't turned up anything more than an announcement of the expedition's
successful return to St. Louis (though I admit I haven't had the chance for
a truly exhaustive search).
>
> What I'm wondering is whether anybody has any other suggestions of sources
to which I might turn for information about their actual trip through
Virginia--particularly, whether there are any manuscript collections or
diaries for individuals who lived along that route during the fall and
winter of 1806 and so might have recorded observations about the party's
passage through their communities.  I have done some low-level examination
of the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections and of the LVA's
index to manuscripts, but I thought I would post the question here in case
somebody has some direct knowledge of those resources or recommendations
they could share with me.
>
> Thank you so much!
>
> All my best,
>
> --Eric
>
> Eric D. M. Johnson
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