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The Fitzhugh family is a First Family of Virginia and prominent family in early U.S. history. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. R.
James Preston Poindexter was born in Richmond, Virginia October 26, 1819 to Evelina and Joseph Poindexter. [3] [4] His mother was black and Cherokee. Joseph was a white man and may have been a brother of George Poindexter, second governor of Mississippi. [5] Joseph was a journalist at the Richmond Enquirer. His mother died when he was four ...
In 1803, he moved to Richmond and set up a bookstore there. On May 9, 1804, he bought the Republican newspaper the Richmond Enquirer from the Jones family with its current mechanical department head W. W. Worsley. On July 30, 1805, he became sole editor and owner and he made it a financial and political success, as editor and publisher for 41 ...
School communities in Virginia and Ohio mourned the victims and families devastated by the horrific mid-air collision between a passenger plane and an Army helicopter in nearby Washington, D.C ...
Fitzhugh Lee was a Confederate general during the American Civil War and the governor of Virginia from 1886 to 1890 [14] Edward E. Lane (1924–2009), member of the Virginia House of Delegates [ 15 ] Fitzhugh Lee (1835–1905), Confederate cavalry general, Governor of Virginia, diplomat, U.S. Army general in Spanish–American War and the ...
Around Brandy Station, Stuart's force of about 9,500 men consisted of five cavalry brigades, commanded by Brig. Gens. Wade Hampton, W.H.F. "Rooney" Lee, Beverly H. Robertson, William E. "Grumble" Jones, and Colonel Thomas T. Munford (commanding Brig. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee's brigade while Lee was stricken with a bout of rheumatism), plus the six-battery Stuart Horse Artillery, commanded by Major ...
On Jan. 10, Reyes visited a Food Lion at around 1:20 p.m. local time before heading home to his Forrest Acres Drive address. Lever reportedly exited his property at around 1:28 p.m., before he ...
In 1949, a passenger plane and a military craft collided near Washington DC, launching a grim recovery effort in the Potomac River.