Moravian Church Research Articles

Some Notes on the Egg Tree

IN Pennsylvania, U.S.A., at the village of Kutztown, the European custom of erecting an Egg Tree at Easter is still observed. It is difficult to say precisely which part of Europe the tradition arrived from, but Germany seems to be the most probable area. Kutztown is located in a German-speaking Pennsylvania Dutch (Deutsch) district, and is near strongholds of the Moravian Church a sect originating at Herrnhut on the borders of Silesia. A prize-winning children's book, 'The Egg Tree',' which appeared in 195o, has undoubtedly helped to spread the custom in America. The author intended it as a study of the Pennsylvania Dutch community, and she describes in some detail the traditional egg designs which were used in the area: the Bright and Morning Star, the Deer on the Mountain, the Pomegranate, and the HornBlowing Rooster. She encourages her young readers to carry on the tradition for themselves, and to decorate Egg Trees for their homes, schools, and churches. Two years ago the custom had even reached remote Alaska, for I saw children in the town of Anchorage decorating Egg Trees, and the local Chamber of Commerce organized an exhibition of their work in the National Bank. This was not really surprising as Alaskan settlers are mainly from the 'Lower Forty Eight', as they call the rest of the United States, and they carried the tradition north with them when they emigrated. To try and find the origins of this charming custom, we must turn to Europe and, apart from Germany, the references to Egg Trees are not especially numerous. The Slovak National Museum contains an interesting variant of the custom a nineteenthcentury wedding candlestick, carved in wood, and supported on a little table. Set on the table is the figure of a man on horseback, and tied to this a long branch representing a decorated tree. The 'tree' is hung with miscellaneous items such as apples, nuts and birds, but chiefly with coloured eggs.

Regiment Band of the Twenty-Sixth North Carolina

Mr. McCorkle is recognized as the principal authority on the music of the American Moravians. His articles on this and related topics have appeared in such journals as the "North Carolina Historical Review ," "Musical Quarterly," and tiie "Journal of the American Musicological Society." A musicologist, performer, editor, teacher, and critic, he is currently active as executive director of the Moravian Music Foundation and visiting assistant professor of musicology at Salem College, Winston-Salem. Regiment Band of the Twenty-Sixth North Carolina JULIUS LEINBACH Edited by Donald M. McCorkle The military band has held a position of great importance in ioartime since the very beginning of organized warfare itself. Wliether in ancient or in modern times, the bandsman has consistently been utilized as a morale builder of tiie first order. And, just as consistently, he has been an unsung hero; his rank seldom being very high, his duties have run the gamut from butcher to baker to candlestick maker and the inevitable "medic." Yet through all he has carved for himself a unique niche in the eternal scroll of honor. His music has bolstered the attack and the retreat, the offense and the defense, and above all has rejuvenated the emotions of patriotism. And so it was too in the American Civil War. Probably no one would know howmany bands were engaged in this conflict, nor indeed, probably, would many be interested. But to the student of cultural history the question would have some merit, for he is concerned with the mind of the soldier. His questions might be these: "Did the men have interest in music while in the heat of battle?" "What tunes did they sing?" "What effect, if any, did the battle situation have upon the musicians interest in good performance ?" Some of these questions are answered in this colorful and dramatic account of what occurred behind the scenes during the battle of Gettysburg. Julius Augustus Leinbach (Lineback) (1834-1930) toas at Gettysburg with the Twenty-sixth North Carolina Regiment Band, in ante- and post-bellum 225 226DON ALD M . MCCORKLE days the Salem Brass Band from the Moravian Church community of Salem, North Carolina. Leinbach and his fellow band members saw at close range the four-day massacre of the Twenty-sixth Regiment, the massacre that cost it nearly ninety per cent of its personnel and won for it the fitting title, "The Bloody Twenty-sixth." Leinbach's account, here slightly abridged and edited, was first given early in the century as a speech before the Wachovia Historical Society in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It was subsequently published, unedited, as an appendix for Bernard J. PfohTs book, The Salem Band (Winston-Salem: Privately Printed, 1953). The titles listed in the supplement (page 234 ff.) are those that comprised the repertory of the Twenty-sixth Regiment Band. It isa representative sampling of the tunes and songs which made up the musical fare of the Confederate soldier in his triumph and his defeat. Few of the pieces wiU ever be heardagain, and that is probably well. For no music is quite as evanescent as the music for war; it is so thoroughly a creature of circumstance that, once its value has been utilized, it can only remain thereafter unsung, as are the heroes of the military bands who exploited it for war. ? have been asked to give an account of some of the experiences of the Twenty-sixth North Carolina Band during the Civil War, and the battle of Gettysburg was suggested as being the most notable. . . . General Lee's original objective had been Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, but from information received he changed his course, and directed his corps commanders to congregate in the neighborhood of Gettysburg. Heth's division of A. P. Hill's corps had arrived at Cash Town, some eight miles from Gettysburg, on the evening of June 29, 1863. The next morning [Major] General Heth ordered [Brigadier] General Pettigrew to take the three regiments he had with him, three pieces of artillery and some wagons, go to Gettysburg and procure some supplies. It was expected that he would find a body of Home Guards there, which would no doubt retire on the approach of a larger...

TE MORAVIAN CHURCH IN THE WORLD 1457–1957

International Review of MissionVolume 46, Issue 184 p. 417-423 TE MORAVIAN CHURCH IN THE WORLD 1457–1957 J. M. van der Linde, J. M. van der LindeSearch for more papers by this author J. M. van der Linde, J. M. van der LindeSearch for more papers by this author First published: October 1957 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-6631.1957.tb01818.xCitations: 1Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume46, Issue184October 1957Pages 417-423 RelatedInformation

Book Review: History of the Moravian Church. By Edward Langton. Allen and Unwin. 12s. 6d.; The Lord's Horseman. By Umphrey Lee. Hodder and Stoughton. 12s. 6d.

Book Review: History of the Moravian Church. By Edward Langton. Allen and Unwin. 12s. 6d.; The Lord's Horseman. By Umphrey Lee. Hodder and Stoughton. 12s. 6d.

A North Carolina Water Supply in 1766

Journal AWWAVolume 36, Issue 3 p. 278-283 Article A North Carolina Water Supply in 1766† First published: 01 March 1944 https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1551-8833.1944.tb19983.x †An historical account of the water supply systems of Salem and Winston, N.C. From extracts taken from old diaries of Salem and the Moravian Church, translated and published by Dr. Adelaide L. Fries, M.A., Litt.D., from Memorabilia of Fifty Years by the Rt. Rev. Edward Rondthaler, D.D., LL.D., and from Minutes of Salem and Winston Bd. of Comm. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume36, Issue3March 1944Pages 278-283 RelatedInformation

Guide to the Manuscripts in the Archives of the Moravian Church in America, Southern Province, 613 South Liberty Street, Winston-Salem, N. C. By the North Carolina Historical Records Survey, Division of Community Service Programs, Work Projects Administration

Journal Article Guide to the Manuscripts in the Archives of the Moravian Church in America, Southern Province, 613 South Liberty Street, Winston-Salem, N. C. By the North Carolina Historical Records Survey, Division of Community Service Programs, Work Projects Administration Get access Journal of American History, Volume 29, Issue 4, March 1943, Page 642, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/29.4.642-b Published: 01 March 1943

Negro Dialect of the Virgin Islands

HE accompanying dialogue is a reproduction of a conversation between the Reverend Mr. Maguire, pastor of the Moravian Church in Frederiksted, Santa Cruz (St. Croix), and one of his black parishioners who is typical of the country-naygur population of the agricultural island of the Virgin group. This conversation should be authentic, for it was recorded by the Reverend Mr. Maguire. From him it passed into the hands of Mrs. Louisa Fleming Moore, of Fredericksted, to whom I am indebted for most of its present form. The dialogue is typical of the Negro dialect and type of humor of the newest colonial possession of The United States; and as it stands, passed down by memory from mouth to ear among the natives, it has become a minor classic of the island of Santa Cruz. Probably it has never been presented to an American group of readers. In the writer's opinion, after a number of years' residence in the Virgin Islands, the local Negro humor and dialect possesses qualities comparable to the Marse Chan and Br'er Rabbit classics of Virginia. The common speech of the Virgin Island Blacks is marked by the following characteristics:

<italic>Records of the Moravians in North Carolina</italic>. Edited by <sc>Adelaide L. Fries</sc>, M.A., Archivist of the Moravian Church in America, Southern Province. Volume II, 1752–1775. [Publications of the North Carolina Historical Commission.] (Raleigh: Edwards and Broughton Printing Company. 1925. Pp. viii, 515–973)

Journal Article Records of the Moravians in North Carolina. Edited by Adelaide L. Fries, M.A., Archivist of the Moravian Church in America, Southern Province. Volume II, 1752–1775. [Publications of the North Carolina Historical Commission.] (Raleigh: Edwards and Broughton Printing Company. 1925. Pp. viii, 515–973) Get access Records of the Moravians in North Carolina. Edited by Fries Adelaide L., M.A., Archivist of the Moravian Church in America, Southern Province. Volume II, 1752–1775. [Publications of the North Carolina Historical Commission.] (Raleigh: Edwards and Broughton Printing Company. 1925. Pp. viii, 515-973.) A. B. Faust A. B. Faust Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 31, Issue 4, July 1926, Pages 791–792, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/31.4.791 Published: 01 July 1926

<italic>Records of the Moravians in North Carolina</italic>. Edited by <sc>Adelaide L. Fries</sc>, M.A., Archivist of the Moravian Church in America, Southern Province. Volume L, 1752–1771. [Publications of the North Carolina Historical Commission.] (Raleigh: Edwards and Broughton Printing Company, State Printers. 1922. Pp. 511.)

<italic>Records of the Moravians in North Carolina</italic>. Edited by <sc>Adelaide L. Fries</sc>, M.A., Archivist of the Moravian Church in America, Southern Province. Volume L, 1752–1771. [Publications of the North Carolina Historical Commission.] (Raleigh: Edwards and Broughton Printing Company, State Printers. 1922. Pp. 511.)

<italic>The History of Wachovia in North Carolina: The Unitas Fratrum or Moravian Church in North Carolina during a Century and a Half, 1752–1902</italic>. By John Henry Clewell. (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co. 1902. Pp. xiv, 365.)

Journal Article The History of Wachovia in North Carolina: The Unitas Fratrum or Moravian Church in North Carolina during a Century and a Half, 1752–1902. By John Henry Clewell. (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co. 1902. Pp. xiv, 365.) Get access The History of Wachovia in North Carolina: The Unitas Fratrum or Moravian Church in North Carolina during a Century and a Half, 1752–1902. By Clewell John Henry. (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co. 1902. Pp. xiv, 365.) John Spencer Bassett John Spencer Bassett Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 8, Issue 2, January 1903, Pages 363–364, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/8.2.363 Published: 01 January 1903

The History of Wachovia in North Carolina: The Unitas Fratrum or Moravian Church in North Carolina during a Century and a Half, 1752-1902

The History of Wachovia in North Carolina: The Unitas Fratrum or Moravian Church in North Carolina during a Century and a Half, 1752-1902

A Lenâpé-English Dictionary. From an Anonymous MS. in the Archives of the Moravian Church at Bethlehem, Pa. Edited, with Additions, by Daniel G. Brinton, A. M., M. D.

A Lenâpé-English Dictionary. From an Anonymous MS. in the Archives of the Moravian Church at Bethlehem, Pa. Edited, with Additions, by Daniel G. Brinton, A. M., M. D.