Sketches Of Virginia

Author : Duval Porter
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ISBN 13 : 9781332171620
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Official Virginia written by Duval Porter and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Official Virginia: A Composition of Sketches of the Public Men of Virginia at the Present Time About thirty years ago, it was the good fortune of this writer to be employed in the capacity of a confidential clerk by a gentleman whose ability was recognized all over the State. He had a head two stories and a half high, with a large attic on top, and was possessed of a master mind very little short of the first order of greatness. This man began life a very poor boy, and yet by dint of energy and intellect long before the war, had risen to eminence as well as competency. When the clouds of war were gathering in 1860 and Virginia was alarmed like all her other sister Southern states as to the outcome of Mr. Lincoln's election, he was chosen a member of a convention which will go down in history as the Secession Convention. In that body he ranked with such intellectual giants as Barbour, Baldwin, Alexander, H. H. Stuart, and others. He was a Union man when he went to the Convention and so remained until Mr. Lincoln issued his proclamation calling on Virginia to furnish her quota of troops to coerce her sister Southern states. Like every other Union man from the South, he then cast his lot with his section. When the war ended and his State was beneath the heel of the carpet-bagger and the scalawag, Virginia, in order to come back into the Union on a constitutional basis, selected this gentleman, Mr. Stuart, Mr. Barbour and Mr. Baldwin to visit Washington and interview President Grant in order to obtain his consent for Virginia to resume her rightful place once more in the Union. They succeeded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.