Kirkbride Taylor, 8th Virginia Infantry, Confederate Army
Living in Virginia at the start of Civil War meant that Quaker citizens had decisions to make: which side wereContinue Reading
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“I refer you to…Samuel M. Janney or Yardley Taylor of Loudoun County.”
At the end of the Civil War, the Union army occupied the former Confederacy, supplying government for a South stillContinue Reading
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Elizabeth Holmes and her Union Star
Elizabeth Holmes (1800-1873) had strong opinions about the American Civil War so she sat down with a quilt frame andContinue Reading
Yardley Taylor in newly revealed daguerreotype and: is this Hannah Taylor?
A collector recently came across the items shown here, when at auction in Pennsylvania. Mr. Brian Murphy, the new ownerContinue Reading
Virginia and Abolitionism
The Library of Virginia, in their Out of the Box archives, has a series of articles about the anti-slavery and abolitionist societies which spreadContinue Reading
Asa Moore, Ellen and Cosmelia Janney’s Civil War travel pass
In May 1863, Asa Moore Janney, along with two of his daughters, traveled outside Loudoun County. The nation was atContinue Reading
Nest of Abolitionists 