LG Tyler on politics in America

1884: From Lyon G. Tyler, The Life and Times of the Tylers (published 1884): All parties that have ever existed …

Depicting the calamity in the Capitol

1870, April 27: From the Library of Virginia website, lva.virginia.gov: The Richmond Calamity-Citizens and Firemen Removing the Wounded, the Dying …

1863, December 16: In the middle of the Civil War, far away, George Santayana is born in Madrid, Spain. He …

April 14, 1862: Union forces made the first of what would be for landings at Tapphannock during the war. The …

1861, May 23: Virginia voters approve secession, thus finally (to my mind) reaching bottom in the Commonwealth’s descent from the …

In the 1860 election, Essex County was divided. Severely. There were four men on the presidential ballot. John Bell, who …

1860, May 9: The Constitutional Union Party held its convention in Baltimore, and wound up nominating John Bell of Tennessee, …

John Latane, born at The Meadows and first-cousin to the Mahockney Latanes, was a University of Virginia student in the …

1851, October 23-25: The ratification referendum was held – and passed – on the new popularly-titled “Reform Constitution.” Among the …

1848, June 8: Ann Waring Latane of Mahockney marries Edward Andrew Jackson Clopton, who was born in Richmond in 1819 …