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ISBN 13 : 9781332209545
Total Pages : 68 pages
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Download or read book Virginia in Black and White (Classic Reprint) written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Virginia in Black and White The richest field of history in America is Virginia - the land where the first English colonists strove to gain a foothold in the New World; where the primeval savage was first overcome; where the life and manners of the mother country found their closest counterpart; where the great leaders of the greatest movement for freedom were born; where the gigantic figure of Washington first towered above his fellows; where the thinker Jefferson studied, and Patrick Henry cried aloud for war. It was here that many of the great battles of the Revolution were fought, and where, nearly a century later, was to be determined the issue of that greater conflict which has left the fair bosom of Virginia scarred with wounds and her garments soaked in the blood of her children. The theater of two great wars, the birth-place and cradle of statesmen, the home of gentlehood, the school of chivalry, the story-book of adventure and romance, every foot of Virginia is historic ground, interesting and necessary to every American who would know the story of his country, or whose blood beats faster at the thought of its heroes. As though built with the purpose to draw together with one connected chain the scattered events of 300 years, the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway penetrates the richest region of this classic land, binding together its mountains and valleys, its homes and its battlefields, its cities and its ruins. But the interest is not all in the past, for there is no fairer land to look upon. The bold, rugged canons of the New River give place to the beautifully undulating mountains and valleys of the Greenbrier, which murmurs like a lover as it kisses the soft banks that incline to it like a yielding maiden. 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.