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The Life Of Major James Henry Dooley, Robert B. Harris

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Major Dooley was deeply interested in the civil welfar of his community and did much to aid those in need of assistance. He was the person who founded and equipped the Dooley Hospital for Crippled Children on East Marshall Street, an dhe likewise had an interest in a similar hospital in Roanoke, Virginia. He was a director of business affairs of the Sisters of Charity. He also took a profound interest in educational and religious matters being associated with the Catholic Church. He was a member of the board of directors of the Co-Orperative Educational Association of this city. At …

The Early Origins And Experiments Of Fascism : The Hegelian State And The Second Empire, Samuel T. Schroetter

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The majority of people assume that Fascism is a purely recent phenomenon. This paper is an effort to prove by a historical formula, an analysis of fact, and a parallel of events that the finished product of Fascism today has been in the making for a century. It sees the manifest origins of Fascism in the philosophy of Hegel and the milieu out of which Hegelianism grew. Then Fascism first took political form in the preliminary experiment of Louis Napoleon. For some years after that passed it was merely an infiltrating element in the structure of democracy. But democracy broke …

The Motley Family Of Virginia : Being An Acount Of The Maternal Ancestry Of The Writer J. Motley Booker, J. Motley Booker

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The name Motley is not a common one in America nor here in Virginia, though the progenitor of the line first settled here over two hundred and fifty years ago. A partial reason for this lies in the fact that as far as records reveal, only one of that family emigrated to America. Tradition which has been handed down to us by word of mouth, gives the family a French Huguenot extraction, and the rudimentary researches in that direction have seemed to uphold this tradition in every way.

The Growth Of Historical Study In American Institutions With Special Reference To Richmond College, Vernon B. Richardson

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The Last Battle Of The War Between The States, Edward J. Norfleet

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The last battle of the War Between the States occurred in a vicinity particularly well adapted for the military tragedy that it was. The meandering Appomattox river found its way between hills the were high and close to the stream, making the approaches to it very difficult. It was a poor defensive position because the rear could be easily taken. Over the whole of this area grew dark pine woods, broken by scattered plantations and a few small farms. Under the circumstances the Confederates did all that could be expected.

Richmond's Miss Van Lew, Allan H. Lane

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Legend has it that Miss Van Lew was a spy, but there has always been a reasonable amount of doubt as to the correctness of this statement. Investigations into the sources of these rumors have been few, and then, considering the fact that Miss Van Lew was very secretive about her actions during the War Between the States, there is not much material left at the late date to reconstruct the story of her operations. However, from what material could be located, several points have been brought to light which should prove conclusively that Miss Van Lew was an agent …

The Negro Problem In The South, Sidney T. Matthews Jr

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Among the chief problems which vexed the country for the last century and threaten to give yet more trouble in the future, is what is usually termed "The Negro Questions." To the south, it has been for nearly seventy years the chief public question, overshadowing all others, and withdrawing her from due participation in the direction and benefit of the National Government. It has kept alive section feeling, has inflamed partisanship, distorted party policies, barred complete reconciliation, cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and hundreds if not thousands of lives, and stands ever ready, like Banquo's ghost, to burst forth …

The Dahlgren Raid Against Richmond, March 28 - April 2, 1864, Julien Gunn Jr.

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The whole point of the raid was the destruction of as much of the supplies which might be used by the Confederates as possible and the release of those Federal prisoners which were incarcerated in Richmond. One has only to look ahead to the burning of Columbia, South Carolina to see what might have happened in Richmond.

Mary Anne Randolph Custis Lee : Wife Of General Robert E. Lee, Dorothy Lee

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Much has been written concerning the life and achievements of General Robert Edward Lee, but the life and letters of his wife Mary Anne Randolph Custis Lee have scarcely been touched, except in their connection with her illustrious husband. From her published writings and the from the devotion her husband gave her she would seem to have been a woman sufficiently individual to merit the historian's attention.

Mary Lee's life was not only brought into close relationship with the historic personages of her own generation but through her parents and grandparents she was influenced by the founders of the American …

Life Of John Warwick Daniel, Ruth Lazenby

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John Warwick Daniel was born on the 5th of September, 1824, in Lynchburg, and died on the 29th of June, 1910. Only sixty-eight years of life, a short period when one measures the span of a lifetime and yet he crowded into these years so much that he has rightly come to be called soldier and orator, jurist and lawgiver, statesman and senator. As a soldier he was brave, loyal and devoted to duty, winning many honors for courage and gallantry. As an orator he was noted for his eloquence, charm and unsurpassed beauty of language, and it was perhaps …