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Recollections and Reflections on the War between the States

Friday, October 10, 2014

Dashing Damsels

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Emma Cummings and Mollie Woods, dashing damsels, fair but frail, impregnated the court atmosphere with musk and shook up the dull silence w...
Saturday, September 27, 2014

Where Lies the Truth- Part Two

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TO THE PUBLIC- In the Richmond Examiner of the 20th instant, Mr. JOHN B. ANDERSON has dragged my name before the public with no conceivabl...
Saturday, September 20, 2014

150 Years Ago in the Examiner- Where Lies the Truth

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TO THE PUBLIC- Having learned beyond question, that MR. PETER COSBY, my late partner, during my recent and somewhat protracted absence from...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

A Double Wedding, 1860- Part 1

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Married, In New Kent county, on the 7th instant, by the Rev. Mr. Caroway, Mr. Chas. E Yeatman, of Gloucester, and Miss Harriet R. Royster...
Friday, September 12, 2014

"Carelessly Shooting his Musket at Some Ducks" - 1863

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Say shot. --About three o'clock on Saturday evening, a lad named Patrick Kearney, who was standing on the basin bank, under the shed ...
Monday, September 8, 2014

The Cost of Doing Business

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"On mature reflection it can scarcely be considered extravagant to say that the average cost of operations this year are ten fold what...
Friday, September 5, 2014

Running Goods to Richmond- 1863

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 A piece on the contraband/smuggling trade from New Kent County History . . . THE YANKEES AT THE WHITE HOUSE When the train from Ric...
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