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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 3 1 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.18 (search)
ginian precursors of enlightenment. The original title of a dignified body, which I have for years striven to serve, was the Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society. It was organized December 29, 1831, with Chief-Justice Marshall as its first president. It is honored now in a triumvirate of directive officers, whom Richmond values for their excellences. The second of these is your own loved president, the chief herald of the cause of education in our teeming republic. The Hon. William Wirt Henry and Colonel Archer Anderson hold the first and third trusts. Since 1870 the essential exponent of our State has been known more simply as the Virginia Historical Society, having relegated then philosophy to the dreamer. It had a predecessor in imposing name more than half a century before—the Philosophical Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge—instituted at the ambrosial capital of the Old Dominion—Williamsburg—in the month of flowers—May, 1773. I may recur to it aga
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index (search)
Rev R. C., 246. Frazier's Farm, Battle of, 306. Fredericksburg, Battle of, 259, 262, 310. Free Schools in Colonial Virginia, 138. Gaines's Mill, Battle of, 417. Gift, Lt. George W., 95. Gregg, Fort, Artillery defenders of, 65. Gregg. General Maxcy, death of, 309. Gordon, General John B., 176. Hardee, General W. J., 235. Harman, Colonel A. W., 318. Harrison, Captain, Dabney Carr, 372. Hartford, The U. S., Naval Ship, 73. Heckman, Capture of General, 107. Henry, Wm. Wirt, 125. Hill, Lieutenant-General A. P., Reminiscences of, 178; First burial of remains of, 183; wife, of, 267. Hill, Senator B. H., 374, 387. Hill, General D. H., Report of the Battle of Bethel, 232. Hill, G. Powell, 186, Hines, A Howitzer Veteran, Old, 257. Home Guard of Richmond, in 1861, 57. Indentured Servants in Virginia, 138. Inflexible, The British Iron-Clad, Description of, 32 Iron, Manufacture in Virginia, Early, 137. Jackson, General Thomas J., Character