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Sacred to the memory of Major David Leitch, who was born at Glasgow in Scotland, Sept. 11th A.D. 1753. At an early age he emigrated to America with an elder brother and settled at Richmond, Virginia. A brave and . . . — — Map (db m281054) HM
Pittsylvania County Area 1,015 Square Miles. Formed in 1766 from Halifax, and named for William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, British Statesman. This is the largest county of Virginia. The home of Claude A. Swanson, Governor of . . . — — Map (db m247285) HM
Bedford County was probably named for the English statesman John Russell, fourth duke of Bedford. Russell, as secretary of state for the Southern Department from 1748 to 1751, had general supervision of colonial affairs. Bedford was formed from . . . — — Map (db m234611) HM
During the Battle of Lynchburg on June 17-18, 1864, Confederate Gen. Jubal A. Early moved his reserves into the cemetery to reinforce his lines across the Lynchburg-Salem Turnpike (Fort Ave.) at Fort Early. Before dawn on Sunday, June 19, these . . . — — Map (db m257112) HM
Richard Southgate, a lawyer, came to Newport in 1795. He was appointed Commonwealth Attorney for Campbell County in 1798,
voted State Representative in 1803, and served as State Senator from
1817-1821. The city of Southgate was named for him; at . . . — — Map (db m279754) HM
Robert Enoch Withers was born in Campbell County on 18 Sept. 1821. After graduation from the medical department at the University of Virginia in 1841, he practiced medicine in Campbell County and Danville until 1861. During the Civil War Withers . . . — — Map (db m208890) HM
Campbell County
Established 1806: reportedly named in honor of Col. Arthur Campbell. Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses; Commanded 70th Regiment Virginia Militia, in the Revolution; Commissioner for negotiation of Indian Treaties in . . . — — Map (db m119950) HM
Appomattox County. Appomattox County was named for the Appomattox River, which runs through the county. The river is named for the Appamattuck tribe, which lived near the mouth of the river. The county was formed from parts of Buckingham, . . . — — Map (db m74018) HM
In May 1864, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant launched attacks on Confederate armies across the South. He accompanied Gen. George G. Meade’s Army of the Potomac as it fought Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor. . . . — — Map (db m14569) HM
Campbell County
Campbell County was created from Bedford County by the Virginia General Assembly in 1781 and named for Gen. William Campbell, one of the heroes of the Battle of King's Mountain in 1780. The county seat is Rustburg. British Lt. . . . — — Map (db m306964) HM
After the murder of William Letcher in 1780, the history of the fifteen-hundred-acre farm that would become the birthplace and boyhood home of James Ewell Brown Stuart is complex, in some instances vague and uncertain. Shortly after her husband's . . . — — Map (db m267763) HM
Both politicians and the public were extremely war-weary and anxious for the Civil War to end. By summer 1862, President Abraham Lincoln knew that conditions had worsened and that new tactics were necessary to thwart Confederate advances. That . . . — — Map (db m297212) HM
Samuel Kelso, born into slavery, became one of Lynchburg first African American teachers after the Civil War. He taught at a freedmen's school on 12th Street and was later a trustee of the all-Black Polk Street School. Kelso was elected to represent . . . — — Map (db m257061) HM
The Lane Brothers Construction Company planned Altavista on 2,000 acres purchased in 1905 at the crossing of their newly completed section of the Virginian Railway and the existing Southern Railway (now Norfolk Southern Railway). Tradition holds . . . — — Map (db m251939) HM
Welcome to Campbell County, Tennessee! Get ready to visit small towns with big stories.
Tennessee Civil War Trails tells riveting stories of battles and leaders, and much more. You'll learn about some of the state's 275,000 enslaved men and . . . — — Map (db m253986) HM
Amherst County. Area 470 Square Miles. Formed in 1761 from Albemarle, and named for Jeffrey, Lord Amherst, British commander in the French and Indian War. Balcony Falls are in this county.
Campbell County. Area 557 . . . — — Map (db m46431) HM
Dental innovator Dr. Robert W. Morgan lived
here. Troubled by the lack of dental care for
soldiers while he served in the Confederate
army, he studied dentistry after the war. During
the 1880s he formulated dental hygiene products
including . . . — — Map (db m104398) HM
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* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
