Spotsylvania Memory

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Two Families, One Story

William A. Jackson, 1850 In the early 1800s, there were three William Jacksons living in Fredericksburg--grandfather, father and so...

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

"I have arrested Mr. George E. Chancellor"

George E. Chancellor at a breastwork near Ellwood, April 1866 Born in Spotsylvania County about 1842, George Edwards Chancellor was o...

Saturday, April 9, 2022

"I may never see you all again"

Salem Baptist Church, 1870s (Confederate Memorial Literary Society) John C. Davis was born in 1837 on a farm in Limestone County, ju...

Saturday, March 26, 2022

Reverend Elmer Grant Barnum

Elmer Grant Barnum Elmer Grant Barnum was born in New York near Lake Ontario in the farming community of Sanborn, Niagara County, on ...

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About Me

Pat Sullivan: 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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