Homework Helper: Virginia in the Civil War--The Battles
One hundred and fifty years ago, life was turned upside-down for residents in our communities. Stafford County was occupied by Union troops. Fredericksburg changed hands many times between Union and...
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Nurse, Soldier, Spy: The Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero
By Marissa MossA story of a nineteen-year-old woman who disguised herself as a man to avoid an unwanted marriage and who distinguished herself as a male nurse during the Civil War, and later as a spy...
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Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker: The Unlikely Friendship of Elizabeth Keckley &...
By Lynda JonesIn 1868, a controversial tell-all called Behind the Scenes introduced readers to Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley. Mrs. Keckley was a former slave who had been Mary Todd Lincoln's dressmaker and...
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Stealing Secrets: How a Few Daring Women Deceived Generals, Impacted Battles,...
By H. Donald WinklerRebel queen of Washington spies : Rose Greenhow -- Vanished without a trace : Sarah Slater -- "Singing as sweetly as ever" : Olivia Floyd -- Grant's most valuable Richmond spy :...
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Rebel River: A Guide to Civil War Sites on the Potomac, Rappahannock, York,...
Virginia's many rivers were strategic points in the Civil War. Thousands of men had to cross them at a time, whether by boat or pontoon bridge, or, in shallower places, on foot. Major rivers slowed...
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The Civil War and Food
When one thinks about the U.S. Civil War, or the War Between the States, one does not come up with images of food and recipes. Rather, it is the exact opposite: we think about hunger and even...
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Great Lives Lecture Series: J.E.B. Stuart
The University of Mary Washington's 2012 Chappell Great Lives Lecture Series continues on Tuesday, April 3, with a lecture on J.E.B. Stuart by Emory Thomas, author ofBold Dragoon: The Life of J.E.B....
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Great Lives Lecture Series: A Civil War Soldier
The University of Mary Washington's 2012 Chappell Great Lives Lecture Series concludes on Thursday, April 26, with a lecture on lives of Civil War soldiers by James Robertson, author of The Untold...
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Virginia at War: 1865, edited by William C. Davis and James I. Robertson, Jr.
virginia_at_war.jpgThe opening months of the Civil War had a certain boldness and cachet to them. Young men in particular signed up in droves. Picnickers came down from D.C. to take a gander at the...
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Virginia at War: 1865
By William C. Davis and James I. Robertson, Jr., editors"By January 1865, most of Virginia's schools were closed, many newspapers had ceased publication, businesses suffered, and food was scarce....
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Mosby's Keydet Rangers
By Eric W. Buckland"Mosby's Keydet Rangers includes a large amount of previously unpublished material that gives the reader new insights into the young men who matriculated at VMI and rode with Colonel...
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The Confederate War: How Popular Will, Nationalism, and Military Strategy...
By Gary W. Gallagher"If one is to believe contemporary historians, the South never had a chance. Many allege that the Confederacy lost the Civil War because of internal division or civilian...
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New Documentary, Death and the Civil War, on PBS
On Tuesday, September 18, in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Antietam--the single bloodiest day of battle on American soil, PBS’ American Experience will premiere a new NEH-funded...
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Civil War 150 Exhibition: Suggested Readings
The Civil War 150 exhibition planners recommend these titles for possible book group discussions. Books whose titles are linked may be found in the Central Rappahannock Regional Library. Please click...
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CRRL Hosts Civil War 150 Exhibition
The Central Rappahannock Regional Library will host Civil War 150, a national traveling exhibition, on display at the library headquarters, 1201 Caroline Street, Fredericksburg, from Tuesday, November...
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Getting to Know Abraham Lincoln
boy_lincoln.jpgOur 16th president was a very odd-looking man. Long-limbed and raw-boned, this frontier president grew up without a lot of the niceties we take for granted today. He grew up surrounded...
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We Have the War upon Us: The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861...
"We Have the War Upon Us helps us understand what the major actors said and did: the Republican party, the Democratic party, southern secessionists, southern Unionists; why the pro-compromise forces...
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Hardtack, Artificial Oysters, and Goober Peas: Making Do on the March and in...
cwartifact1.jpgBy Jane KosaFood was abundant at the beginning of the war, but it soon became scarce for Southern soldiers as well as for the civilians. Behind the Blue and Gray: The Soldier's Life in...
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Kind Acts and Courage at Chancellorsville
chancellors_house_loc.jpgNow that the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Chancellorsville is upon us, it seems a fitting time to look at how the lives of a family of mainly young women were affected by...
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Hartwood Days and Hartwood History
350th_logo.jpgBeyond the 95 CorridorDrive out Route 17 north from Falmouth, past the strip malls, the shopping centers and the subdivisions, and you’ll find that as the roadside gets less crowded, the...
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