A Hundred Days to Richmond

A Hundred Days to Richmond

Author: Jim Leeke

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1999-09-22

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9780253335371

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In the spring of 1864, after three bloody years of civil war and with victory seemingly within reach for the Northern armies, John Brough, Ohio's energetic wartime governor, offered his state's militia for 100 days of federal service. Ordered east for duty in forts, railways, and prisons, they freed veteran troops to make the last great push against Robert E. Lee and the Confederacy. History soon overtook the Ohioans, however. They fought at Monocacy with Lew Wallace and under the watchful eye of Abraham Lincoln at Fort Stevens. They battled Mosby and other feared Southern guerrillas in Virginia and West Virginia. They fell to John Hunt Morgan's cavalry in Kentucky. They toiled and fought against thunderous Petersburg.


Insiders' Guide® to Richmond, VA

Insiders' Guide® to Richmond, VA

Author: Maureen Egan

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2010-09-14

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 0762766778

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Insiders' Guide to Richmond is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to Virginia's capital city. Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of Richmondand its surrounding environs.


To Place Our Deeds

To Place Our Deeds

Author: Shirley Ann Wilson Moore

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 0520229207

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"A fascinating study. . . . It truly comes alive in its expert use of African American oral histories"—Waldo E. Martin, University of California, Berkeley


Ballpark

Ballpark

Author: Peter Richmond

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1995-03

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0684800489

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In this lively chronicle of the creation of the Baltimore Orioles' new stadium, Richmond interweaves baseball history and hardball politics, architecture and the structure ot sports in the '90s to tell a tale as filled with tussles, turmoil, and triumphs as baseball itself.


One Life One Chance

One Life One Chance

Author: Luke Richmond

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2018-02-19

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1925384381

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Born to nomadic parents and humble beginnings, Luke Richmond grew up running wild and free in the Australian outback. After finishing school, he joined the Australian Army and served his country overseas as a qualified infantry soldier – an experience that sparked in him an unrelenting desire for adventure. But when he leaves the army Luke finds himself broke and adrift in London, caught up in the soulless world of drug and alcohol addiction. When he wakes up in a police cell with no memory of how he got there, he knows he has hit rock bottom, and makes the snap decision to turn his life around. Within days he is in Thailand, training his mind and body at a Muay Thai boxing camp in the jungles of Phuket. In suffering Luke finds his salvation, and he decides to make the most out of life by seeking adventure in remote corners of the world. Since then Luke has climbed the highest mountains on six continents, set a new world record for ocean rowing across the Atlantic, battled -60 degree temperatures in the Antarctic, witnessed death at high altitude, was held captive in the humid jungles of West Papua and has thrown himself from cliffs in the adrenalin-fueled world of BASE jumping. More than an awe-inspiring story of endurance and adventure, One Life One Chance will ultimately remind you that we only have one shot, so don’t waste a second of it.


A History Lover's Guide to Richmond

A History Lover's Guide to Richmond

Author: Kristin T. Thrower Stowe

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2021-03-08

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1439672105

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Best known as the capital of the Confederacy, Richmond's history encompasses much more than the Civil War. Visit the state capitol, designed by Thomas Jefferson, and tour Shockoe Bottom, one of the city's oldest neighborhoods. Follow the route that enslaved people took from the ships to the auction block on the Richmond Slave Trail. Go back to Gilded Age Richmond at the Jefferson Hotel and learn the history of the statues that once lined the famed Monument Avenue. See lesser-known sites like the Maggie Walker Home and the Black History Museum in the historically African American Jackson Ward neighborhood. Local author Kristin Thrower Stowe guides a series of expeditions through the River City's past.