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Author : Charles Alvis Bodie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780977722082
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Remarkable Rockbridge written by Charles Alvis Bodie and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allen C. Guelzo
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101912227
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Robert E. Lee written by Allen C. Guelzo and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the award-winning historian and best-selling author of Gettysburg comes the definitive biography of Robert E. Lee. An intimate look at the Confederate general in all his complexity—his hypocrisy and courage, his inner turmoil and outward calm, his disloyalty and his honor. "An important contribution to reconciling the myths with the facts." —New York Times Book Review Robert E. Lee is one of the most confounding figures in American history. Lee betrayed his nation in order to defend his home state and uphold the slave system he claimed to oppose. He was a traitor to the country he swore to serve as an Army officer, and yet he was admired even by his enemies for his composure and leadership. He considered slavery immoral, but benefited from inherited slaves and fought to defend the institution. And behind his genteel demeanor and perfectionism lurked the insecurities of a man haunted by the legacy of a father who stained the family name by declaring bankruptcy and who disappeared when Robert was just six years old. In Robert E. Lee, the award-winning historian Allen Guelzo has written the definitive biography of the general, following him from his refined upbringing in Virginia high society, to his long career in the U.S. Army, his agonized decision to side with Virginia when it seceded from the Union, and his leadership during the Civil War. Above all, Guelzo captures Robert E. Lee in all his complexity--his hypocrisy and courage, his outward calm and inner turmoil, his honor and his disloyalty.
Author : Charles A. Bodie
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666927368
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)
Download or read book James McDowell of Virginia written by Charles A. Bodie and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-12-19 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography examines the antebellum career of James McDowell, a Democratic officeholder from western Virginia who often opposed the status quo. The author examines how, through skillful oratory and rational discourse, he sought and achieved progressive change.
Author : Alison Bell
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1621906965
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)
Download or read book The Vital Dead written by Alison Bell and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book builds on recent anthropological work to explore the social and cultural dynamics of cemetery practice and its transformation over generations in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Anthropologist Alison Bell finds that people are using material culture-images and epitaphs on grave markers, as well as objects they leave on graves-to assert and maintain relationships and fight against alienation. She draws on fieldwork, interviews, archival sources, and disciplinary insights to show how cemeteries both reveal and participate in the grassroots cultural work of crafting social connections, assessing the transcendental durability of the deceased person, and asserting particular cultural values. The book's chapters range across cemetery types, focusing on African American burials, grave sites of institutionalized individuals, and modern community memorials"--
Author : Earl Swift
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813937213
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Journey on the James written by Earl Swift and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2014-12-19 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its beginnings as a trickle of icy water in Virginia's northwest corner to its miles-wide mouth at Hampton Roads, the James River has witnessed more recorded history than any other feature of the American landscape -- as home to the continent's first successful English settlement, highway for Native Americans and early colonists, battleground in the Revolution and the Civil War, and birthplace of America's twentieth-century navy. In 1998, restless in his job as a reporter for the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, Earl Swift landed an assignment traveling the entire length of the James. He hadn't been in a canoe since his days as a Boy Scout, and he knew that the river boasts whitewater, not to mention man-made obstacles, to challenge even experienced paddlers. But reinforced by Pilot photographer Ian Martin and a lot of freeze-dried food and beer, Swift set out to immerse himself -- he hoped not literally -- in the river and its history. What Swift survived to bring us is this engrossing chronicle of three weeks in a fourteen-foot plastic canoe and four hundred years in the life of Virginia. Fueled by humor and a dauntless curiosity about the land, buildings, and people on the banks, and anchored by his sidekick Martin -- whose photographs accompany the text -- Swift points his bow through the ghosts of a frontier past, past Confederate forts and POW camps, antebellum mills, ruined canals, vanished towns, and effluent-spewing industry. Along the banks, lonely meadowlands alternate with suburbs and power plants, marinas and the gleaming skyscrapers of Richmond's New South downtown. Enduring dunkings, wolf spiders, near-arrest, channel fever, and twenty-knot winds, Swift makes it to the Chesapeake Bay. Readers who accompany him through his Journey on the James will come away with the accumulated pleasure, if not the bruises and mud, of four hundred miles of adventure and history in the life of one of America's great watersheds.
Author : Burton R. Floyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976823896
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (238 download)
Download or read book Roads of Rockbridge written by Burton R. Floyd and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1190 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer written by Joseph Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 1190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael S. Steely
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570720369
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Swift's Silver Mines and Related Appalachian Treasures written by Michael S. Steely and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the myths, legends, and stories, one man’s hidden treasure stands above the rest. Jonathan Swift’s lost silver mines have been woven into legend and passed from one generation to the next for more than 230 years. Beginning with an introduction by the late Michael Paul Henson, nationally known treasure expert, this comprehensive volume explores the legend of this enigmatic character who mined the mountains of Appalachia from 1761 until 1769. Unable to remove his entire cache of silver when he left the region, Swift hid much of his treasure in the mines. When he returned in the late 1700s to retrieve the secret caches, he was unable to locate them. During this time, copies of a journal kept by Swift (giving directions and clues to the hidden stashes) were sold and/or given away. Steely has collected and compared legends from across the region, found maps and old journals, and compiled all the information in this interesting, organized book for treasure hunters and historians. Drawing upon treasure lore from the Shawnee, Cherokee, Spanish, French, and Melungeons, this work spans Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, North Carolina, and Alabama.
Author : John Samuel Apperson
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865547797
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (477 download)
Download or read book Repairing the "March of Mars" written by John Samuel Apperson and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There are many collections of letters and Civil War memoirs available today, but very few offer in-depth information about the medical treatment of wounded soldiers. In Repairing the "March of Mars": The Civil War Diaries of John Samuel Apperson, Hospital Steward in the Stonewall Brigade, 1861-1865, editor John Herbert Roper provides an important supplement to this largely ignored aspect of the Civil War." "Apperson's diary is a sensitive and painstaking observation of the details of medical treatment during and after battle. For all periods of the war, his detailed personal records supplement and correct official army hospital records, and for certain periods, his diary provides the only medical information available. For example, Apperson was present at the amputation of Stonewall Jackson's arm, and his diary shows that Jackson died of postoperative pneumonia, and not of a botched surgery."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Joseph Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2982 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World written by Joseph Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 2982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2488 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 2488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Crawford
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813916385
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (163 download)
Download or read book Rockbridge County Artists and Artisans written by Barbara Crawford and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of many artisans in the fine arts, textiles, furniture, clocks, rifles, ironwork, and pottery is traced from 1750 through the post-Civil War years.
Author : John Bonner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Harper's Weekly written by John Bonner and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joe Nickell
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813128560
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Unsolved History written by Joe Nickell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-09-12 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What constitutes historical truth is often subject to change. Joe Nickell demonstrates the techniques used in solving some of the world's most perplexing mysteries, such as the authenticity of Abraham Lincoln's celebrated Bixby letter, the 1913 disappearance of writer and journalist Ambrose Bierce, and the apparent real-life model for a mysterious character in a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Nickell also uses newly uncovered evidence to further investigate the identity of the Nazi war criminal known as ""Ivan the Terrible.""
Author : Rockbridge Historical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Rockbridge Historical Society written by Rockbridge Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Club Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sheng-Hong Chen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3662473313
Total Pages : 1048 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)
Download or read book Hydraulic Structures written by Sheng-Hong Chen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses in detail the planning, design, construction and management of hydraulic structures, covering dams, spillways, tunnels, cut slopes, sluices, water intake and measuring works, ship locks and lifts, as well as fish ways. Particular attention is paid to considerations concerning the environment, hydrology, geology and materials etc. in the planning and design of hydraulic projects. It also considers the type selection, profile configuration, stress/stability calibration and engineering countermeasures, flood releasing arrangements and scouring protection, operation and maintenance etc. for a variety of specific hydraulic structures. The book is primarily intended for engineers, undergraduate and graduate students in the field of civil and hydraulic engineering who are faced with the challenges of extending our understanding of hydraulic structures ranging from traditional to groundbreaking, as well as designing, constructing and managing safe, durable hydraulic structures that are economical and environmentally friendly.
