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| Author | : Stuart L. Butler |
| Publisher | : University Press of America |
| Total Pages | : 673 |
| Release | : 2012-12-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0761860401 |
Defending the Old Dominion describes historical events in Virginia during the War of 1812, examining how Virginia’s militia was organized, supplied, and financed by the Commonwealth. The book discusses the militia’s unpreparedness in training, its lack of adequate ordnance and arms, and how that affected its ability to defend the state against British incursions during the war. Political activities of the Virginia legislature and the U.S. Congress are examined with special reference to how the state financed the war and its relationship with the U.S. government. The book includes the fascinating story of nearly two thousand former slaves who fled to British ships to fight in Virginia with British forces.
| Author | : Richard E. Prince |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 1972 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780960008858 |
| Author | : David A. Guillaudeu |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 129 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0738597929 |
Discover the contribution and history of the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad through pictures from the earliest days of building and development. The Alexandria, Loudoun & Hampshire Railroad laid track from Alexandria through Fairfax County and into Loudoun County towards the coalfields of West Virginia. In 1900, the Southern Railway, which had taken over the line, extended the railroad into Bluemont on the east side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The Washington & Old Dominion Railway leased the Southern Railway's line in 1912, went into receivership in 1932, and was reorganized into the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad in 1935. The employees excavated the roadbed by hand, built stations and electric locomotives, reconfigured passenger cars, replaced diesel motors, and rebuilt bridges. Eventually, public roads and a lack of shipping and receiving industries forced the railroad into abandonment. Through old photographs, Washington & Old Dominion Railroad explores the efforts that went into building, operating, and maintaining the railroad whose right-of-way has now become the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority's Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Regional Park.
| Author | : Old Dominion Steamboat Company |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 19 |
| Release | : 1902 |
| Genre | : James River Valley (Va.) |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Mark P. Donnelly |
| Publisher | : Stackpole Books |
| Total Pages | : 178 |
| Release | : 2012-03-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 081174583X |
High adventure, dastardly deeds, and newly uncovered lore.
| Author | : Betsy Wells Edwards |
| Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : |
Describes 27 homes in Virginia from Toddsbury built around 1690 to Woodside Farm built in 1850 with color photographs and histories of the families who live in them.
| Author | : Kristalyn Marie Shefveland |
| Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
| Total Pages | : 185 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0820350257 |
Shefveland examines Anglo-Indian interactions through the conception of Native tributaries to the Virginia colony, with particularemphasis on the colonial and tributary and foreign Native settlements of thePiedmont and southwestern Coastal Plain between 1646 and 1722.
| Author | : Federal Writers' Project |
| Publisher | : US History Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 822 |
| Release | : 1952 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 1603540458 |
| Author | : Collinson Pierrepont Edwards Burgwyn |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 1889 |
| Genre | : Huguenots |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Thomas E. Buckley, S.J. |
| Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 361 |
| Release | : 2003-11-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0807861480 |
From the end of the Revolution until 1851, the Virginia legislature granted most divorces in the state. It granted divorces rarely, however, turning down two-thirds of those who petitioned for them. Men and women who sought release from unhappy marriages faced a harsh legal system buttressed by the political, religious, and communal cultures of southern life. Through the lens of this hostile environment, Thomas Buckley explores with sympathy the lives and legal struggles of those who challenged it. Based on research in almost 500 divorce files, The Great Catastrophe of My Life involves a wide cross-section of Virginians. Their stories expose southern attitudes and practices involving a spectrum of issues from marriage and family life to gender relations, interracial sex, adultery, desertion, and domestic violence. Although the oppressive legal regime these husbands and wives battled has passed away, the emotions behind their efforts to dissolve the bonds of marriage still resonate strongly.
