General Philip Sheridan explains how to end a War.
By the autumn of 1864 the Civil War was drawing to its bloody close. However, Confederate Colonel John Singleton Mosby’sContinue Reading
Month: June 2019
Asa M. Janney, from Virginia miller to Indian Agent
At the beginning of the year 1869, Asa Moore Janney (1802-1877) was a miller living near Lincoln, Loudoun County, Virginia,Continue Reading
Roads to Civil War: a Quaker’s map of Loudoun County
Yardley Taylor grew apple trees, delivered county mail, wrote anti-slavery essays, and in 1853 surveyed a map of Loudoun County.Continue Reading
Goose Creek “Black Republicans”
The story of the Goose Creek Literary Society is perhaps best told through the newspaper accounts of the March 15,Continue Reading
Nest of Abolitionists 