{"id":6613,"date":"2025-01-29T19:32:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T00:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/?p=6613"},"modified":"2025-04-02T20:29:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T00:29:16","slug":"kicking-off-the-lovettsville-historical-societys-2025-lecture-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/kicking-off-the-lovettsville-historical-societys-2025-lecture-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Kicking off the Lovettsville Historical Society’s 2025 Lecture Series:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cCornwallis\u2019s Sarpints:\u201d <\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The Journey of British Prisoners of War through the Revolutionary Virginia Piedmont<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Presented by Ian MacDougall<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Public Programs Coordinator,<\/strong> <\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Virginia Piedmont Heritage Area<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Sunday, February 9, at 2:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

St. James United Church of Christ,
10 East Broad Way, Lovettsville VA<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Leading off the 2025 lecture series of the Lovettsville Historical Society, Ian McDougall of the Virginia Piedmont Heritage Area will present his talk on \u201c\u2018Cornwallis\u2019s Sarpints:\u2019 The Journey of British Prisoners of War through Revolutionary Virginia Piedmont\u201d<\/em> \u2013 discussing the experiences of those captured in the hands of the American army during the Revolutionary War.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Royal Edinburgh Volunteers Bell of Arms tent cover that was cut up and used as the orderly book cover for the 2nd New York Regiment in the Continental Army. Upon it is inscribed \u201cAmerica to You is Lost.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

From as early as the summer of 1776, British, German, and American Loyalist prisoners of war were held in counties of the Piedmont and Shenandoah Valley.  This include POWS from Saratoga, known as the \u201cConvention Army,\u201d in 1778, and prisoners from the British surrender at Yorktown in 1781.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ian MacDougall joined the Virginia Piedmont Heritage Area in June 2021, and is now the VPHA\u2019s Public Programs Coordinator.  He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2017. After completing his degree, Ian worked for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation\u2019s Military Programming Department from 2017 to 2021, focusing on museum programming concerning Virginia\u2019s role in the American War for Independence, as well as researching the experience of the British Army in the Commonwealth. He currently serves on the Loudoun VA250 Committee in the role of Programs Chair. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The program will not be live-streamed, but a video recording of the event will be posted on the Lovettsville Historical Society website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Admission is free, but donations are welcome to defray expenses of the program and to support the activities of the Lovettsville Historical Society.

For more information, call 540-822-9194.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cCornwallis\u2019s Sarpints:\u201d  The Journey of British Prisoners of War through the Revolutionary Virginia Piedmont Presented by Ian MacDougall Public Programs Coordinator, Virginia Piedmont Heritage Area Sunday, February 9, at 2:00 p.m.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,89],"tags":[241,4],"class_list":["post-6613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lecture","category-revolutionary-war","tag-british-pow","tag-lecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6613"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6618,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613\/revisions\/6618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}