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Virginia and Virginians

eminent Virginians, executives of the colony of Virginia from Sir Thomas Smyth to Lord Dunmore. Executives of the state of Virginia, from Patrick Henry to Fitzhugh Lee. Sketches of Gens. Ambrose Powel Hill, Robert E. Lee, Thos. Jonathan Jackson, Commodore Maury
Brock, R. A. (1839-1914)
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Contents of Volume I.
 I. 
Illustrations in Volume I.

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EMINENT VIRGINIANS.
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EXECUTIVES OF VIRGINIA, 1606-1889.
  
EXPLANATORY NOTE.
  
EXECUTIVES.
  
GOVERNORS UNDER THE STATE CONSTITUTION, ETC.
  
SIR THOMAS SMITH.
  
EDWARD MARIA WINGFIELD.
  
JOHN RATCLIFFE.
  
CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH
  
CAPTAIN GEORGE PERCY.
  
LORD DE LA WARR.
  
SIR THOMAS GATES.
  
SIR THOMAS DALE.
  
SIR GEORGE YEARDLEY.
  
SIR SAMUEL ARGALL.
  
CAPTAIN NATHANIEL POWELL.
  
SIR FRANCIS WYATT.
  
CAPTAIN FRANCIS WEST.
  
DOCTOR JOHN POTT.
  
SIR JOHN HARVEY.
  
CAPTAIN JOHN WEST.
  
SIR WILLIAM BERKELEY.
  
RICHARD KEMPE.
  
RICHARD BENNET.
  
EDWARD DIGGES.
  
COLONEL SAMUEL MATTHEWS.
  
COLONEL FRANCIS MORRYSON, OR MORRISON.
  
HERBERT JEFFREYS.
  
SIR HENRY CHICHELEY.
  
LORD CULPEPER.
  
NICHOLAS SPENCER.
  
FRANCIS HOWARD, BARON EFFINGHAM.
  
NATHANIEL BACON.
  
SIR FRANCIS NICHOLSON.
  
SIR EDMOND ANDROS.
  
EARL OF ORKNEY.
  
EDWARD NOTT.
  
EDMUND JENINGS.
  
ROBERT HUNTER.
  
ALEXANDER SPOTSWOOD.
  
HUGH DRYSDALE.
  
ROBERT CARTER.
  
SIR WILLIAM GOOCH.
  
COMMISSARY JAMES BLAIR.
  
THE EARL OF ALBERMARLE.
  
JOHN ROBINSON.
  
THOMAS LEE
  
LEWIS BURWELL.
  
ROBERT DINWIDDIE.
  
THE EARL OF LOUDON.
  
JOHN BLAIR.
  
FRANCIS FAUQUIER.
  
SIR JEFFREY AMHERST.
  
LORD BOTETOURT.
  
WILLIAM NELSON.
  
LORD DUNMORE
  
PATRICK HENRY.
  
THOMAS JEFFERSON.
  
WILLIAM FLEMING.
  
THOMAS NELSON.
  
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
  
EDMUND RANDOLPH.
  
BEVERLEY RANDOLPH.
  
HENRY LEE.
  
ROBERT BROOKE.
  
JAMES WOOD.
  
JAMES MONROE.
  
JOHN PAGE.
  
WILLIAM H. CABELL.
  
JOHN TYLER.
  
GEORGE WILLIAM SMITH.
  
PEYTON RANDOLPH.
  
JAMES BARBOUR.
  
WILSON CARY NICHOLAS.
  
JAMES PATTON PRESTON.
  
THOMAS MANN RANDOLPH.
  
JAMES PLEASANTS.
  
JOHN TYLER.
  
WILLIAM BRANCH GILES.
  
JOHN FLOYD.
  
LITTLETON WALLER TAZEWELL.
  
WYNDHAM ROBERTSON.
  
DAVID CAMPBELL.
  
THOMAS WALKER GILMER.
  
JOHN MERCER PATTON.
  
JOHN RUTHERFOORD.
  
JOHN MUNFORD GREGORY.
  
JAMES McDOWELL.
  
WILLIAM SMITH.
  
JOHN BUCHANAN FLOYD.
  
JOSEPH JOHNSON.
  
HENRY ALEXANDER WISE.
  
JOHN LETCHER.
  
FRANCIS H. PIERPONT.
  
HENRY H. WELLS.
  
GILBERT CARLETON WALKER.
  
JAMES LAWSON KEMPER.
  
FREDERICK WILLIAM MACKEY HOLLIDAY.
  
WILLIAM EWAN CAMERON.
  
AMBROSE POWELL HILL, LIEUTENANT-GENERAL CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY.
  
ROBERT EDWARD LEE, GENERAL-IN-CHIEF OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY.
  
THOMAS JONATHAN JACKSON, LIEUTENANT-GENERAL CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY.
  
MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY—PHILOSOPHER OF THE SEAS.
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HISTORY OF VIRGINIA.
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INTRODUCTORY.
  
THE ABORIGINES OF AMERICA.
  
SETTLEMENT AT JAMESTOWN.
  
THE BEGINNING.
  
CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH,
  
RETURN OF NEWPORT.
  
VIRGINIA UNDER THE SECOND CHARTER.
  
THE STARVING TIME.
  
JAMESTOWN ABANDONED.
  
VIRGINIA UNDER THE THIRD CHARTER.
  
MARRIAGE OF ROLFE AND POCAHONTAS.
  
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT.
  
INTRODUCTION OF AFRICAN SLAVERY.
  
A LIBERAL CONSTITUTION.
  
THE INDIANS ATTEMPT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE COLONY.
  
DISSOLUTION OF THE LONDON COMPANY.
  
VIRGINIA UNDER THE ROYAL GOVERNMENT.
  
VIRGINIA AND CHARLES I.
  
THE MARYLAND CHARTER—GOVERNOR HARVEY.
  
ORGANIZATION OF THE FIRST COUNTIES.
  
FIRST PUBLICATION OF THE ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE.
  
THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION OF 1642.
  
VIRGINIA AT THE TIME OF THE RESTORATION.
  
BACON'S REBELLION.
  
REMOVAL OF THE CAPITAL OF VIRGINIA.
  
COLONEL ALEXANDER SPOTSWOOD
  
THE UNKNOWN REGIONS OF THE WEST.
  
FIRST SETTLEMENTS WEST OF THE MOUNTAINS—"WESTWARD THE STAR OF EMPIRE TAKES ITS WAY."
  
ORGANIZATION OF THE FIRST COUNTIES OF THE BLUE RIDGE.
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THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR.
  
ENGLAND AND FRANCE—CLAIMS OF THE TWO NATIONS TO THE OHIO VALLEY.
  
TRANSLATION.
  
INDIAN WARS ON THE WESTERN FRONTIER.
  
MRS. HANNAH DENNIS.
  
MURDER OF THE CLENDENIN FAMILY.
  
OTHER INDIAN DEPREDATIONS.
  
CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES.
  
THE WESTERN FRONTIER IN 1772.
  
SETTLEMENT OF WHEELING.
  
ENGLISH FOLLY—DUNMORE'S WAR.
  
THE BATTLE OF POINT PLEASANT.
  
LAST SURVIVOR OF THE BATTLE.
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VIRGINIA IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION.
  
ALLIES OF GREAT BRITAIN.
  
MURDER OF CORNSTALK AT POINT PLEASANT.
  
WAR CLOUDS AGAIN HANGING OVER VIRGINIA.
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VIRGINIA AFTER THE REVOLUTION.
  
BURNING OF THE RICHMOND THEATER.
  
SECOND WAR WITH GREAT BRITAIN.
  
CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES.
  
JOHN BROWN'S RAID UPON HARPERS FERRY, VIRGINIA, 1859.
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THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.
  
THE CONVENTION.
  
MILITARY OPERATIONS.
  
FIRST FEDERAL TROOPS IN VIRGINIA.
  
MILITARY MOVEMENTS IN WESTERN VIRGINIA.
  
BATTLE OF RICH MOUNTAIN.
  
ENGAGEMENT AT CARRICKS FORD.
  
ALONG THE POTOMAC -"ON TO RICHMOND."
  
BATTLE OF CARNIFEX FERRY.
  
GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE SENT TO WESTERN VIRGINIA.
  
ALONG THE POTOMAC.
  
FIGHT AT BOLIVAR HEIGHTS.
  
DRAINSVILLE.
  
FORMATION OF THE NEW STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA.
  
CONVENTION AT CLARKSBURG.
  
THE FIRST WHEELING CONVENTION.
  
THE SECOND WHEELING CONVENTION—THE RESTORED GOVERNMENT.
  
MEETING OF THE PROVISIONAL LEGISLATURE.
  
THIRD WHEELING CONVENTION,
  
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
  
THE NEW CONSTITUTION—THE WORK COMPLETED.
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THE RECORD OF WAR AGAIN.
  
1862.
  
THE CAPITAL OF VIRGINIA BECOMES THE CAPITAL OF THE CONFEDERACY.
  
BATTLE OF WINCHESTER.
  
OPERATIONS ON THE PENINSULA.
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TIDEWATER VIRGINIA MADE THE BATTLE-GROUND.
  
BATTLE OF SEVEN PINES,
  
SEVEN DAYS' BATTLES
  
BATTLE OF MECHANICSVILLE.
  
BATTLE OF GAINES MILLS,
  
BATTLE OF SAVAGES STATION.
  
THE BATTLE OF FRAYSERS FARM.
  
BATTLE OF MALVERN HILL.
  
RETREAT TO HARRISONS LANDING.
  
BATTLE OF CEDAR MOUNTAIN.
  
SECOND BATTLE OF MANASSAS.
  
GENERAL LORING IN THE KANAWHA VALLEY.
  
GENERAL LEE IN MARYLAND.
  
BATTLE OF SOUTH MCUNTAIN.
  
CAPTURE OF HARPERS FERRY.
  
BATTLE OF ANTIETAM, OR SHARPSBURG,
  
FROM THE POTOMAC TO FREDERICKSBURG
  
THE BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG.
  
THE ARMY OF NORTH-WESTERN VIRGINIA AT THE CLOSE OF THE SECOND YEAR'S WAR.
  
HOOKER HALTS ON THE BANKS OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK.
  
THE BATTLES OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK, CHANCELLORSVILLE AND FREDERICKSBURG.
  
THE INVASION OF PENNSYLVANIA.
  
CAPTURE OF WINCHESTER.
  
THE MARCH INTO PENNSYLVANIA CONTINUED.
  
BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG.
  
VIRGINIA TROOPS IN THE SERVICE.
  
ENGAGEMENT AT CHARLESTOWN.
  
THE GREATEST CAMPAIGN IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
  
BATTLES OF THE WILDERNESS
  
BATTLES OF SPOTTSYLVANIA COURT HOUSE.
  
BATTLE OF THE CHICKAHOMINY, OR COLD HARBOR.
  
GRANT MOVES TO THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE JAMES.
  
HUNTER CAPTURES STAUNTON.
  
THE SIEGE OF PETERSBURG.
  
THE MINE.
  
OPERATIONS IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY.
  
DESOLATION OF THE VALLEY.
  
THE BATTLE OF OPEQUAN CREEK.
  
BATTLE OF CEDAR CREEK.
  
AROUND PETERSBURG.
  
CAPTURE AND DESTRUCTION OF THE WELDON RAILROAD.
  
THE BEGINNING OF THE END.
  
EVACUATION OF RICHMOND.
  
FROM RICHMOND TO APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE.
  
GEOGRAPHICAL AND PHYSICAL VIEW.

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Illustrations in Volume I.

PORTRAITS.

                                             
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Patrick Henry  Frontispiece 
Sir Thomas Smith  13 
Peyton Randolph  21 
Thomas West, Earl De La Warr  37 
Captain George Percy  45 
Lord Dunmore  61 
Thomas, Lord Culpeper  77 
Edmund Randolph  85 
Robert Brooke  101 
Alexander Spotswood  117 
Lady Spotswood  125 
George Sandys  149 
Lord Botetourt  157 
Rev. John Buchanan  173 
Rev. Miles Selden  189 
Silhouette of Richard Channing
Moore, D. D. 		 197 
Gen. Robt. E. Lee  257 
"Stonewall" Jackson  265 
Pocahontas  273 
Capt. John Smith  281 
Robert Bolling  287 
Merewether Lewis  331 

MISCELLANEOUS ILLUSTRATIONS.

                                                           
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Mace of the Borough of Norfolk  29 
Drinking Cup made from the Silver
Mace of the Speaker of the
House of Burgesses (before the
Revolution) 		 53 
Autograph Bill of Patrick Henry  69 
Scene in West Virginia  93 
Chair of Speaker of House of
Burgesses 		 109 
Armorial Book Plate, Earl of
Dunmore 		 133 
Yorktown Monument  141 
Old Valentine (1753)  165 
St. John's Church, Richmond  181 
Scene in Virginia  205 
Blandford Church  213 
John Randolph's Armorial Book
Plate 		 221 
View in West Virginia  229 
View of the Capitol Building,
Richmond 		 237 
Entrance to Hollywood Cemetery,
Richmond 		 345 
Ruins of Jamestown  291 
Seal of Council Chamber, Colony
of Virginia 		 297 
Silver Medal King of Pamunkie  305 
Silver Medal Queen of Pamunkey  313 
Scene on the Great Kanawha  321 
Revolutionary Relics—Grave of
General Morgan 		 341 
Broad Seal of Virginia Colony  351 
Tomb of Mary, Mother of Washington  361 
Seal of William and Mary College  371 
Book Plate of Col. Wm. Byrd  377 
Foley's Statue of "Stonewall"
Jackson 		 383 
Confederate States Seal  391 
Tomb of Ex-President Monroe  401 
View on Upper Potomac  407 
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