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Mary Richards, also known as Mary Jane Richards Garvin and possibly Mary Bowser (born 1846), was a Union spy during the Civil War. [1] She was possibly born enslaved from birth in Virginia , but there is no documentation of where she was born or who her parents were.
His portraiture of Native Americans were part of a systematic effort to document members of treaty delegations who came to Washington, D.C. [105] After the Civil War broke out, operating out of Richmond, Vannerson continued making portraits of famous Confederate general officers, using his preferred method, the "salt" print.
Posthumous confirmation of brigadier general promotion over a month after death. Eicher, Warner list as a general. Gave "Stonewall" Jackson his famous nickname at First Bull Run, where Bee was mortally wounded July 21, 1861, and died July 22, 1861. Bee, Hamilton Prioleau: Brigadier general rank: March 4, 1862 nom: March 5, 1862 conf: March 6, 1862
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is selling the Bedford, N.Y., property where his estranged wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy, committed suicide in May. The 10-acre property and its gorgeous 10,000-square-foot ...
Confederate General Patrick Cleburne explained the problem in a letter to Confederate high command, complaining "All along the lines slavery is comparatively valueless to us for labor, but of great and increasing worth to the enemy for information. It is an omnipresent spy system, pointing out our valuable men to the enemy, revealing our ...
Belle Boyd (age 21), Confederate spy (circa 1865). Boyd's espionage career began by chance. According to her 1866 account, a band of Union army soldiers heard that she had Confederate flags in her room on July 4, 1861, and they came to investigate. They hung a Union flag outside her home. Then one of the men cursed at her mother, which enraged ...
William H. Mumler (1832–1884) was an American spirit photographer who worked in New York City and Boston. [1] His first spirit photograph was apparently an accident—a self-portrait which, when developed, also revealed the "spirit" of his deceased cousin.
George Edward Pickett was born in his grandfather's shop in Richmond, Virginia, on January 16, 1825, and raised on his family's plantation at Turkey Island.He was the first of the eight children of Robert and Mary Pickett, [3] a prominent old Virginia family of English and French Huguenot origins.