Planning a trip to UVA’s Alderman Library, the Latane Papers
A Guide to the Latane Family Papers Accession number 6490 A Collection in the Special Collections Department Contact Information: University …
Category Archives: Civil War
Touring the Internet battlefields
It is astonishing how deeply divided those who argue about the root cause(s) of the Civil War continue to be. …
Touring the Internet battlefields
It is astonishing how deeply divided those who argue about the root cause(s) of the Civil War continue to be. …
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 …
“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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