Author: Marty HiattPublisher: Millefleurs
ISBN: 9780809582884
Category : Loudoun County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1400
Book Description
Loudoun County, Virginia Tithables, 1758-1786
Author: Marty HiattPublisher: Millefleurs
ISBN: 9780809582884
Category : Loudoun County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1400
Book Description
In the Shadow of the Enemy
Author: Ida Powell DulanyPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1572336587
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Piedmont area of Loudoun and Fauquier Counties, Virginia, near the Maryland border, was hotly contested throughout the Civil War. The mistress of a slave-holding estate, Ida Powell Dulany took over control of the extensive family lands once her husband left to fight for the Confederacy. She struggled to manage slaves, maintain contact with her neighbors, and keep up her morale after her region was abandoned by the Confederate government soon after the beginning of hostilities.
History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County Virginia
Author: James William HeadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Between Reb and Yank
Author: Taylor M. ChamberlinPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786489340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The northern part of Loudoun County was a Unionist enclave in Confederate Virginia that remained a contested battleground for armies and factions of all stripes throughout the Civil War. Lying between the Blue Ridge Mountains, Harpers Ferry, and Washington, D.C., the Loudoun Valley provided a natural corridor for commanders on both sides, while its mountainous fringes were home to partisans, guerillas, deserters and smugglers. This detailed history examines the conflicting loyalties in the farming communities, the peaceful Quakers caught in the middle, and the political underpinnings of Unionist Virginia.
Rust of Virginia
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
William Rust was born about 1634, probably in Suffolk Co., England and immigrated about 1650 to Westmoreland Co., Virginia. He married twice and died about 1699.
Legends of Loudoun: An Account of the History and Homes of a Border County of Virginia's Northern Neck
Author: Harrison WilliamsPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465513752
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Marriages of Loudoun County, Virginia, 1757-1853
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ISBN:
Category : Loudoun County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Capital Views
Author: James M. GoodePublisher:
ISBN: 1588343316
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
"Metropolitan areas change over the time. These changes come together and create a city's character and personality. Renowned Washington, DC, historian James Goode has assembled an incredible collection of images that look back at a Washington before it developed into the international metropolitan city it is today. The impactful historic photography exposes the elements of the DC metro area that have disappeared- the dairy farms of Loudoun County, the railroad round house in Alexandria, and model boats on the Rainbow Pool on the National Mall, as well as provide startling different views of areas and neighborhoods that still exist. The majority of these images have never been published, and under the curatorial eye of James Goode have been put together in a way that give readers a better understanding of the city Washington DC was, and the city it was to become."
Life in Black and White
Author: Brenda E. StevensonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199923647
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Life in the old South has always fascinated Americans--whether in the mythical portrayals of the planter elite from fiction such as Gone With the Wind or in historical studies that look inside the slave cabin. Now Brenda E. Stevenson presents a reality far more gripping than popular legend, even as she challenges the conventional wisdom of academic historians. Life in Black and White provides a panoramic portrait of family and community life in and around Loudoun County, Virginia--weaving the fascinating personal stories of planters and slaves, of free blacks and poor-to-middling whites, into a powerful portrait of southern society from the mid-eighteenth century to the Civil War. Loudoun County and its vicinity encapsulated the full sweep of southern life. Here the region's most illustrious families--the Lees, Masons, Carters, Monroes, and Peytons--helped forge southern traditions and attitudes that became characteristic of the entire region while mingling with yeoman farmers of German, Scotch-Irish, and Irish descent, and free black families who lived alongside abolitionist Quakers and thousands of slaves. Stevenson brilliantly recounts their stories as she builds the complex picture of their intertwined lives, revealing how their combined histories guaranteed Loudon's role in important state, regional, and national events and controversies. Both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, for example, were hidden at a local plantation during the War of 1812. James Monroe wrote his famous "Doctrine" at his Loudon estate. The area also was the birthplace of celebrated fugitive slave Daniel Dangerfield, the home of John Janney, chairman of the Virginia secession convention, a center for Underground Railroad activities, and the location of John Brown's infamous 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry. In exploring the central role of the family, Brenda Stevenson offers a wealth of insight: we look into the lives of upper class women, who bore the oppressive weight of marriage and motherhood as practiced in the South and the equally burdensome roles of their husbands whose honor was tied to their ability to support and lead regardless of their personal preference; the yeoman farm family's struggle for respectability; and the marginal economic existence of free blacks and its undermining influence on their family life. Most important, Stevenson breaks new ground in her depiction of slave family life. Following the lead of historian Herbert Gutman, most scholars have accepted the idea that, like white, slaves embraced the nuclear family, both as a living reality and an ideal. Stevenson destroys this notion, showing that the harsh realities of slavery, even for those who belonged to such attentive masters as George Washington, allowed little possibility of a nuclear family. Far more important were extended kin networks and female headed households. Meticulously researched, insightful, and moving, Life in Black and White offers our most detailed portrait yet of the reality of southern life. It forever changes our understanding of family and race relations during the reign of the peculiar institution in the American South.
Author: Richard Wynkoop