Second Secessionist Convention Report « Second Vermont Republic
2008, October: Second Secessionist Convention Report The Middlebury Institute for the study of separatism, secession, and self-determination 127 East Mountain …
Category Archives: Political Divide
Kirkpatrick Sale wants to establish Hudsonia
The involvement of quirky, generally lefty New York intellectual Kirkpatrick Sale in the Vermont secession movement allowed the New York …
The Day the Flag Went Up in Modern South Carolina
On the one hundredth anniversary of the shots fired at Fort Sumter, the nation saw a bizarre real-life reenactment of …
Richmond Times Dispatch on Nathaniel Bacon
On Dec. 30, 1934, the Richmond Times-Dispatch ran the following article: Nathaniel Bacon – Rebel “Patriot” Last Resting Place of …
“At the mercy of the lawless and vicious”: Richmond under Reconstruction
1908, December 9: The Richmond Bar Association heard a powerful depiction of Reconstruction and its ills, in a speech by a Virginian who epitomized …
Postscript to the Capitol Disaster: Court rules that Richmond can govern itself
From the Virginia Historical Society’s Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, “The Capitol Disaster” (Vol. 68, No. 2, April, 1960, pp. …
“Oh God what a day of horror, blood, and death it has been” – An eyewitness account of the Capitol Disaster
The text below is reprinted from the Virginia Historical Society’s Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, “The Capitol Disaster: A Letter …
“The court-room snapped in twain”
1870, April 27: One cannot read accounts of the 1870 Capitol Disaster without thinking of the late war as an …
Background and details on the Capitol Disaster
1870, April 27: Some background on the Capitol Disaster. A plaque commemorating the Capitol Disaster of 1870 is on the …
The Capitol Disaster!
1870, April 27: The “Great Capitol Disaster” occurred. The following account is from 1896, by Charles Poindexter who wrote a “Hand-Book …
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