Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Bragg waited for Long street's arrival from Virginia with reinforcements. He then attacked, striking with wonderful good fortune a gap, left by a misunderstanding, in the Union centre. Six whole divisions burst through and hurled back the Federal right in utter confusion. Rosecrans himself was drawn into the flight and thought all was lost. At this crisis, Thomas threw himself in the breach, and by his heroic firmness and skill, held the road to Chattanooga for six hours, against the whole strength of the victorious enemy. His force of 25,000 dwindled to 15,000. Ammunition gave...
Thomas Jefferson at an early period mastered a system of education for Virginia but he only established what we might call the steeple of the church without the church. He nevertheless woke up a band of thoughtful men in the South who believed in and later acted upon his ideas. The Civil War prostrated all educational plans completely and from 1860-1870 the Southern States were more lacking in schooling than any other people in the world within the last fifty years. When the war finally ended colleges and academies immediately sprung up, but nobody could afford to send their...
Conspicuous among the contents of the December Atlantic is another of John Fiske's historical studies. It has for a title The Starving Time in Old Virginia, and is an important historical contribution as well as delightful reading...
Last June, Judge Okey Johnson, a graduate of the Harvard Law School, class of '58, was unanimously elected dean of the law faculty of the West Virginia University. Judge Johnson has practiced his profession with distinguished success in West Virginia, his native State, and for twelve years was a member of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, presiding as president of that body for about eight years...
...mass meeting of the alumni of the University of Virginia was held in Washington Monday, to take action in regard to the rebuilding of the burned portions of the college. Secretary of the Navy, Herbert, presided and several speeches were made. Resolutions were adopted deploring the conflagration, calling on the alumni and friends of the university for aid, and appointing a committee to organize and raise funds. The faculty of the university has sent out circular letters to the alumni, detailing the fire losses, and pointing out the need of the construction of separate fireproof buildings to replace the library...