The City of Richmond, Virginia: A Cultural and Historical Nexus of HeroismScott T. Allison
Library of Virginia Digital Collections Peruse thousands of archived resources like old newspapers and historical photos - there's even an archive of old websites deemed to be of cultural or historical significance. Virginia Civil War The Virginia Civil War Commission is fittingly based in Richmond,...
Later, having lost most of their wealth during the, “War Between the States”, the family lived in Richmond, Virginia. At the age of 14 Westmoreland Davis became the youngest student to ever enroll in the Virginia Military Insititute in Lexington. After graduating from the military college in...
, Virginia in Maps - Four Centuries of Settlement, Growth, and Development, Library of Virginia, Richmond 2000. A large coffee table book with almost 200 map reproductions, including some of the usual suspects and many of the unusual. Some maps not usually found in map histories show ...
Custis Morgan was a squirrel adopted as a pet by Mildred Lee in Richmond, Virginia during the American Civil War. She named him after her brother Custis and Confederate States Army General John Hunt Morgan, who had escaped from prison much as the squirrel escaped from his cage. Custis Morgan...
Remarkably, 76 Georgia Historical Quarterly Presentation of the 2011 Leadership in History Award from the American Association for State and Local History, received by GHS for its Civil War 150 Historical Marker project, presented in Richmond, Virginia, September 16, 2011. Pictured: D. Stephen ...
However, during the decades after his death, around 15 different sites were claimed to be the birthplace farm. The National Park Service only ever accepted one of these locations as genuine, and on it there stood a log cabin that was said to be the actual cabin in which Lincoln had come...
STAFFORD CIVIL WAR SITES 65 MARLBOROUGH POINT RD, STAFFORD, VA, 22554-5702 9.433 BELMONT GARI MELCHERS MEMORIAL GALLERY 224 WASHINGTON ST, FREDERICKSBURG, VA, 22405 11.855 GARI MELCHERS HOME 224 WASHINGTON ST, FREDERICKSBURG, VA, 22405 11.855 CENTRAL VIRGINIA BATTLEFIELDS TRUST PO BOX 3417, FREDERICK...
Dietz Press, Richmond, VA. Google Scholar French, Harvey Ellsworth 1914 The Medicine Man and Some of His Modern Successors. Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota 5(1):3–12. Google Scholar French, L. Virginia 1856 Mammy—A Home Picture. New Orleans Daily Crescent 10 June:...
Rachel Beanland depicts a real-life tragedy in "The House Is on Fire": the Richmond Theatre Fire of 1811. One December evening, a theater in Richmond is packed for a double-billing performance. In the audience are Sally, a young widow and descendant of an American hero; Cecily, a young...