The View That Named The City

The curve of the James River and steep slope on this side of are very much like the features of the River Thames in England, at a royal village west of London called Richmond upon Thames.

William Byrd II, an important ...

Congregational Church of Blair

Religous institutions have played an important role in the history of Nebraska. During the frontier period, churches fulfilled both the spiritual and social needs of the early inhabitants. The Congregational Church was one of Nebraska's pioneer denominations. The Reverend Reuben ...

Battle of Galveston

As part of the Union blockade of the Texas coast, Commander W. B. Renshaw led his small fleet into Galveston harbor to demand the surrender of this most important Texas port on October 4, 1862. Largely unguarded, as it was ...

Confederates Converge

Confederate General Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the North hinged on eliminating the Harpers Ferry garrison. To do so Lee devised Special Orders 191. He divided his force of 40,000 into four parts. Three columns marched from near Frederick, ...

Pat the Avenger Returns Fire

Great Railroad Strike of 1877

In The Great Strike of 1877, a labor dispute between workers and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company set off a popular uprising. The Philadelphia militia shot into an unarmed crowd on July 21st and then took shelter ...

Seige at the 26th Street Roundhouse

Great Railroad Strike of 1877

On July 21st 1877, the Philadelphia militia fired into a vocal crowd of striking Pennsylvania trainmen and sympathizers. Twenty people were killed, including at least three children. Many more were wounded. Following the attack, the militia ...

State Violence Incites Rioting

Great Railroad Strike of 1877

On July 20th, 1877, striking railroad workers in Pittsburgh successfully stopped trains from leaving the freight yard in the Strip District. The sheriff was called upon to clear the tracks by railroad officials, anxious to regain ...

Battlefield Landmarks - South and West

July 3, 1863 - Third Day

"...the enemy is advancing. Every eye could see the legions, an overwhelming resistless tide of an ocean of armed men sweeping upon us!"

1st Lt. Frank A. Haskell, U.S.A.

Aide to Brig. Gen. John Gibbon

You are standing ...

The Desperate and the Decadent

Great Railroad Strike of 1877

The Great Strike of 1877 was instigated by a ten percent cut in workmen’s wages on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad—one cut of many since the panic of 1873. The industry at large had experienced significant ...

Calvert's (Arkansas) Battery

Maj. T.R. Hotchkiss' Artillery Battalion.

Calvert's (Arkansas) Battery

2-6 pdr. guns -- 2-12 pdr. Howitzers.

Maj. T.R. Hotchkiss' Artillery Battalion.

Cleburne's Division

1st Lieut. Thomas J. Key, Commanding,

1st Lieut. R. Fitzpatrick,

1st Lieut. W. M. Hopwood,

2d Lieut. J. G. Marshall.

Nov. 25, 1863, Morning

The battery occupied a ...