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The 1862 State of the Union Address was written by the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, and delivered to the 37th United States Congress, on Monday, December 1, 1862, amid the ongoing American Civil War. [1] This address was Lincoln's longest State of the Union Address, consisting of 8,385 words. [2]
The Virginia Declaration of Rights was drafted in 1776 to proclaim the inherent rights of men, including the right to reform or abolish "inadequate" government. [2] It influenced a number of later documents, including the United States Declaration of Independence (1776) and the United States Bill of Rights (1789).
In November 2000, the D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles began issuing license plates bearing the slogan "Taxation without representation". [97] In a show of support for the city, President Bill Clinton used the "Taxation Without Representation" plates on the presidential limousine ; however, President George W. Bush had the tags replaced to ...
Patrick Henry ' s speech on the Virginia Resolves (1851 painting by Peter F. Rothermel). The Virginia Resolves were a series of resolutions passed on May 29, 1765, by the Virginia House of Burgesses in response to the Stamp Act of 1765, which had imposed a tax on the British colonies in North America requiring that material be printed on paper made in London which carried an embossed revenue ...
Jefferson's most immediate sources were two documents written in June 1776: his own draft of the preamble of the Constitution of Virginia, and George Mason's draft of the Virginia Declaration of Rights. Ideas and phrases from both of these documents appear in the Declaration of Independence. [73] [22]: 125–126 Mason's opening was: Section 1.
John Blair was born in Williamsburg, Colony of Virginia, in 1732, to Mary (Monro) (1726–1768) and her merchant and politician husband, John Blair.They had a large family, with ten or twelve children by various accounts, and John was the fourth child, and the eldest surviving son.
The Union army proceeded down the Loudoun Valley, foraging off local farms. On October 30, Stuart, with Brigadier General Fitzhugh Lee 's brigade and Major John Pelham's artillery , reentered Loudoun County to reconnoiter the enemy's position and screen the movement of the Army of Northern Virginia as it repositioned itself south of the ...
The National Park Service quotes Union as 23 and Confederate as 91 (without differentiating types of casualties). [1] Kennedy cites 75 Union deaths and 25 Confederate deaths. [ 15 ] In his Official Report, Major-General Robert Patterson states the number of Confederate deaths as "over sixty" [ 16 ] but does not describe Union casualties.