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Mary Jackson (c. 1829 – c. 1870) was a Virginian peddler known for her role in organizing the 1863 riots in Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, now known as the Richmond Bread Riots. Jackson instigated and led a group of around 300 armed women through the streets of Richmond, demanding food and supplies that were in shortage during wartime.
She may have been the only woman officially commissioned in the Confederate Army. [1] She is best remembered for privately sponsoring a hospital in Richmond, Virginia to treat soldiers wounded in the American Civil War. Under her supervision, she had the lowest death rate of any hospital Union or Confederate, during the Civil War. She has been ...
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.
A woman with a gun poses for photos during the Black Women Matter "Say Her Name" march at the Lee statue on July 3, 2020, in Richmond, Va. Protests continue around the country after the death of ...
Elizabeth Van Lew (October 12, 1818 – September 25, 1900) was an American abolitionist, Southern Unionist, and philanthropist who recruited and acted as the primary handler of an extensive spy ring for the Union Army in the Confederate capital of Richmond during the American Civil War. Many false claims continue to be made about her life.
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.
Edward Johnson (1816–1873), U.S. Army officer and Confederate general, American Civil War; Mary Johnston (1870–1936), novelist and women's rights advocate; David Rumph Jones (1825–1863), U.S. Army officer and Confederate General, American Civil War; Mildred Callahan Jones (1943–2008), decorative flag businesswoman [53]
Mary Richards, also known as Mary Jane Richards Garvin and possibly Mary Bowser (born 1846), was a Union spy during the Civil War. [1] She was possibly born enslaved from birth in Virginia, but there is no documentation of where she was born or who her parents were.