Download or read book A Street Guide to Civil War Alexandria Showing Major U S Military Installations and Selected Confederate Sites written by Fort Ward Museum and Historic Site (Alexandria, Va.) and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alexandria in the Civil War written by James Barber and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Romance of Historic Alexandria written by Eugene Beauharnais Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historic Photos of Alexandria written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexandria, Virginia, has been witness to events which helped create America. Many of the nation's founding fathers and well-known historical figures, including George Washington and Robert E. Lee, lived in, worked in, and were a part of the city. Though it started out as a modest tobacco trading town and seaport, Alexandria has truly been at the crossroads of American history. Its citizens are proud of Alexandria's place in history and its importance as a city steeped in the narrative of the founding of the United States.Historic Photos of Alexandria depicts this colorful and varied history through still photos selected from the Library of Congress and the Local History–Special Collections branch of the Alexandria Library. From the occupation of Alexandria by Union troops during the Civil War to the thriving downtown shopping and dining district of the 1940s and 1950s, Historic Photos of Alexandria follows life and events throughout the city's history.
Download or read book Civil War Maps in the National Archives written by National Archives (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alexandria 1861 1865 written by Charles A. Mills and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexandria and Northern Virginia were the first areas to feel the fury of the Civil War. The New York Herald war correspondent observed, "Many hamlets and towns have been destroyed during the war, Alexandria has most suffered. It has been in the uninterrupted possession of the Federals. . . . Alexandria is filled with ruined people; they walk as strangers through their ancient streets, and their property is no longer theirs to possess. . . . these things ensued, as the natural results of civil war; and one's sympathies were everywhere enlisted for the poor, the exiled, and the bereaved." This book graphically portrays the scenes of war and occupation.
Download or read book Alexandria s Freedmen s Cemetery A Legacy of Freedom written by Char McCargo Bah, Edited by Mumini M. Bah and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At the beginning of the Civil War, Federal troops secured Alexandria as Union territory. Former slaves, called contrabands, poured in to obtain protection from their former masters. Due to overcrowding, mortality rates were high. Authorities seized an undeveloped parcel of land on South Washington Street, and by March 1864, it had been opened as a cemetery for African Americans. Between 1864 and 1868, more than 1,700 contrabands and freedmen were buried there. For nearly eighty years, the cemetery lay undisturbed and was eventually forgotten. Rediscovered in 1996, it has now been preserved as a monument to the courage and sacrifice of those buried within. Author and researcher Char McCargo Bah recounts the stories of those men and women and the search for their descendants."-- back cover.
Download or read book A Guide to Civil War Maps in the National Archives written by and published by National Archives & Records Administration. This book was released on 1986 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book This Forgotten Land written by Thomas J. Evans and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed tour of historic sites, cemeteries, and burial locations in the area around northern Fairfax County that borders Alexandria together with information about many participants in the War Between the States.
Download or read book From Manassas to Appomattox written by James Longstreet and published by Philadelphia : Lippincott. This book was released on 1895 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donated by Lloyd Miller.
Download or read book Alexandria on the Potomac written by Harold W. Hurst and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is both the unique story of Alexandria before the Civil War and a comprehensive portrait of a seaboard antebellum community in transition. It depicts the economic, political, social, cultural and religious life of the city on the Potomac, emphasizing developments from the mid-1840s to the outbreak of war in 1861. The pages therein not only describe local happenings; they endeavor to relate events in the town with developments in other seaboard communities, especially in the South. Special attention is given to the class structure of the community and the prominent role which merchants and civic leaders played, as well as the part of ordinary people in the city's portrait.
Download or read book Alexandria Virginia written by Pamela J. Cressey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-11 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Long before the town of Alexandria, Virginia, was built on the shores of the Potomac River, the area was home to Native Americans who fished the river in dugout canoes. In the 17th century, settlers arrived from England, and by the 18th century, Alexandria has become a busy port city. Once an important center of the slave trade, Alexandria was also home to a thriving free black community, even before the Civil War. Over the next 100 years, Alexandria continued to grow." "In the 1960s, across the United States, old buildings were being demolished to make room for new developments. A race began to save Alexandria's past. Volunteers stayed one step ahead of the builders to reconstruct a Civil War fort. When bulldozers began to tear down parts of historic Alexandria, they uncovered abandoned wells and outdoor privies full of buried history. Luckily for archaeologists, the moist environment of the wells and privies had preserved the trash that residents had thrown into them. Dishes, combs, and even a musket have all been rescued and used to piece together how Alexandrians lived over hundreds of years. Pamela J. Cressey, Alexandria's City Archaeologist, and Margaret J. Anderson explore not only the history of Alexandria, but also how it changed from a city rescuing its artifacts to a community preserving its past."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Quantico Crossroads of the Marine Corps written by Charles A. Fleming and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Remembering Arkansas Confederates and the 1911 Little Rock Veterans Reunion written by Ray Hanley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006-09-06 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arkansas seceded from the Union in 1861, opening a chapter in the states history that would change its destiny for decades. An estimated 6,862 Arkansas Confederate soldiers died from battle and disease, while some 1,700 Arkansas men died wearing Union blue. Total casualties, killed and wounded, represented 12 percent of the white men in the state between the ages of 15 and 62. Bloody, hard-fought battles included Pea Ridge, Helena, Little Rock, and the rare Confederate victory in southwest Arkansas at Jenkins Ferry. Following the war, the event that included the largest parade ever in Arkansas, the 1911 United Confederate Veterans Reunion, is presented in picture and word. The event has largely been neglected by history books. From the monuments and veterans to the loyal reenactors still gathering today, the story of the Civil War in Arkansas is remembered and preserved for coming generations.
Download or read book ROMANCE OF HISTORIC ALEXANDRIA written by Eugene Beauharnais 1867 Jackson and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Civil War on the Border written by Wiley Britton and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rugged and Sublime the Civil War in Arkansas p written by Mark Christ and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
