Word: richmond
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Exasperated Man. The.first letter in the book is a cool request to the governor of Virginia (written when Poe was 15) asking that the Richmond Junior Volunteers, in which he was a lieutenant, be allowed to keep their arms. It sets the tone for the book. Poe's letters were brisk and businesslike-requests for books to review, offers to sell stories, proposals to start new literary magazines, attempts to wangle copy from contributors like Longfellow, Hawthorne, or James Russell Lowell. When Poe became editor of Graham's Magazine it had 5,000 subscribers. When he left...
This man was a good at the poll as he was on the podium. In his last campaign Richmond, Virginia, gave Wintergreen more votes than Mason and Dixon combined, and in Lexington, Kentucky, he ran only 1,830,702 votes behind Straight Whiskey. What is more, he himself cast the final six votes necessary for his election...
...Freeman family moved to Virginia in 1742, which makes them not quite F.F.V., but Biographer Freeman's maternal ancestors were. Young Douglas was a 17-year-old honor student at Richmond College when his father, who had been a private in Lee's army (and later a general in the Confederate veterans organization), took him to a Confederate reunion. The sight of the Confederacy's brave armless and legless old men stirred young Douglas; he decided: "If someone doesn't write the story of these men, it will be lost forever...
...masterly books brought Freeman invitations to lecture at the Army & Navy War Colleges and the Army's staff and command school. They also brought him the admiration of such men as Eisenhower, Marshall, Patton and Nimitz. Freeman still guides visiting generals over the Civil War battlefields near Richmond and no living person knows the terrain so well...
...Majority stockholders: Publisher David Tennant Bryan and his family, who also control Richmond's only other paper, the morning Times-Dispatch. Freeman's opposite number on the Times-Dispatch is famed Southern Editor Virginius Dabney...