Taking a Stand: Anti-war Virginia Quakers in 1861
America’s Civil War broke out on April 12, 1861 with the South Carolina battle of Ft. Sumter. Eleven states secededContinue Reading
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Civil War “Volunteers” and a Quaker Mill
Prior to the Civil War Quaker miller Asa Moore Janney (1802-1877) moved his family from Richmond to the community ofContinue Reading
Ulysses S. Grant and Loudoun County Quakers
“During all of the trying winter of 1860-1, when the Southerners were so defiant that they would not allow withinContinue Reading
Rebecca Wright: Quaker teacher, Union spy
Rebecca M. Wright (1838-1914) was a young teacher from a Quaker family living in Winchester, Virginia. She spent at leastContinue Reading
Janney Store during the Civil War
Samuel, Elizabeth Janney and family left their Springdale School residence in 1854 and moved to the center of Goose CreekContinue Reading
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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