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Furgurson, Ernest B. Ashes of glory: Richmond at war (1996). Greene, A. Wilson. Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible of War (U of Virginia Press, 2006). Harwell, Richard Barksdale. "Civil War Theater: The Richmond Stage." Civil War History (1955) 1#3 pp: 295–304. online; Lankford, Nelson.
The Civil War Visitor Center at Tredegar Iron Works is located in the restored pattern building and offers three floors of exhibits, an interactive map table, a film about the Civil War battles around Richmond, a bookstore, and interpretive NPS rangers on site daily to provide programs and to aid visitors.
The history of Richmond, Virginia, as a modern city, dates to the early 17th century, and is crucial to the development of the colony of Virginia, the American Revolutionary War, and the Civil War. After Reconstruction , Richmond's location at the falls of the James River helped it develop a diversified economy and become a land transportation hub.
1865 photograph of Libby Prison. Libby Prison was a Confederate prison at Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War.In 1862 it was designated to hold officer prisoners from the Union Army, taking in numbers from the nearby Seven Days battles (in which nearly 16,000 Union men and officers had been killed, wounded, or captured between June 25 and July 1 alone) and other conflicts of the ...
After the final resident passed away, the Commonwealth of Virginia was given ownership and designated it a Confederate memorial park. [5] A notable practitioner at the home was Joseph DeJarnette, a vocal proponent of racism and eugenics (specifically the sterilization of the mentally ill) whose uncle, Daniel Coleman DeJarnette Sr., was part of the First and Second Confederate Congress as well ...
The Richmond–Petersburg campaign was a series of battles around Petersburg, Virginia, fought from June 9, 1864, to March 25, 1865, [4] during the American Civil War. Although it is more popularly known as the siege of Petersburg , it was not a classic military siege , in which a city is encircled with fortifications blocking all routes of ...
The Seven Days Battles were a series of seven battles over seven days from June 25 to July 1, 1862, near Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War. Confederate General Robert E. Lee drove the invading Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, away from Richmond and into a retreat down the Virginia Peninsula.
It is one of the most modern structures ever built in Richmond. [citation needed] Built for the 1961 Civil War Centennial, it served as the Jonah L. Larrick Student Center on the Medical College of Virginia campus of Virginia Commonwealth University until 2007. The Centennial Center was part of a major national effort to commemorate the Civil War.