Alexandria in the Civil War, 1861-1865
Author: James Barber
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 232
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Author: James Barber
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles A. Mills
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738553443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlexandria and Northern Virginia were the first areas to feel the fury of the Civil War. The New York Herald war correspondent observed, "Many hamlets and towns have been destroyed during the war, Alexandria has most suffered. It has been in the uninterrupted possession of the Federals. . . . Alexandria is filled with ruined people; they walk as strangers through their ancient streets, and their property is no longer theirs to possess. . . . these things ensued, as the natural results of civil war; and one's sympathies were everywhere enlisted for the poor, the exiled, and the bereaved." This book graphically portrays the scenes of war and occupation.
Author: James Barber
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 144
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Audrey P. Davis
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Published: 2023
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780997723816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William B. Hurd
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 34
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Published: 1866
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Names of soldiers who died in defense of the American union, interred in the national and public cemeteries" (varies).
Author: Wilbur Fisk
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 406
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLetters from Vermont schoolteacher in the Union Army to the Montpelier Green Mountain Freeman newspaper.
Author: Harold W. Hurst
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780819182401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is both the unique story of Alexandria before the Civil War and a comprehensive portrait of a seaboard antebellum community in transition. It depicts the economic, political, social, cultural and religious life of the city on the Potomac, emphasizing developments from the mid-1840s to the outbreak of war in 1861. The pages therein not only describe local happenings; they endeavor to relate events in the town with developments in other seaboard communities, especially in the South. Special attention is given to the class structure of the community and the prominent role which merchants and civic leaders played, as well as the part of ordinary people in the city's portrait.
Author: J. Dallas Robertson
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Published: 1949
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Walt H. Sirene
Publisher: Walt H. Sirene
Published: 2017-12-13
Total Pages: 154
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a selective collection of Harper’s Weekly woodcut Civil War images appearing during 1861, along with the original descriptions of illustrations. The focus is Warrenton town and Fauquier County Virginia, and beyond. About This Document -- Several years ago, Fauquier resident Paul Mellon kindly gifted a collection of Harper’s Weekly news magazines to the Fauquier Historical Society. They are a great educational source of engraved images highlighting Civil War events published when most newspapers were only words. The images illuminate the story. Harper’s artists were busy making on-scene images for woodcut engravings including many of Warrenton, Fauquier County and nearby environs in Northern Virginia. Warrenton, the county seat, was of military importance as a commercial crossroads including a railroad branch line terminus. It changed occupiers sixty-seven times during the War. It was the hub for Confederate Col. John S Mosby’s partisan raiders who were citizens by day and raiders at night. With daring raids they strategically kept the Union’s Army of the Potomac bottled up in Northern Virginia protecting and repairing supply lines and Washington DC. Fauquier was also home to many enslaved, about 48% of the population at the beginning of the War. The images are in high resolution and were digitally enhanced to give readers, students and researchers clarity.