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Wednesday, August 19, 2020

William Aquilla Harris

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William Aquilla Harris (Courtesy of Rich Morrison)        He came from a distinguished family that arrived in Spotsylvania in the early 1840...
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Thursday, August 6, 2020

The Harris Brothers Go To War

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Map detail of Spotsylvania County, 1863      In the early 1840s, Robert McCracken Harris moved his family from Warren County, New Jersey to ...
Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Fisticuffs on Princess Anne Street

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Cardinal Richelieu Coleman (Library of Virginia)      Cardinal Richelieu Coleman was born at "Alta Vista," a large farm in eastern...
Friday, July 24, 2020

"He looked at me in a defiant manner"

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Wilson Comfort (Courtesy of Tyler Talley)    Thomas H. Comfort, a black citizen of Spotsylvania County, was born about 1862 to Wilson Comfo...
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Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Lewis Boggs and the Mule Incident at Livingston

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Lewis Alexander Boggs (Ancestry)      Hugh Corrans Boggs was born in County Donegal, Ireland on June 6, 1763. His family emigrated to the Un...
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In my companion blogs, Spotsylvania Memory and Rockbridge Memory, I tell the stories of some of Virginia's richly documented historical families. Drawing on original photographs, letters and other source material, I seek to provide an intimate look at the lives of some remarkable people who lived in the 19th and early 20th centuries. My book, "No Matter What Befalls Me: Virginia Families at War and Peace," was published in 2015. It is available from the Orange County Historical Society at: https://shop.orangecovahist.org/shop?olsPage=products/w1502&olsFocus=false All original material in this blog copyrighted 2016.
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