Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your Dec. 14 issue, p. 17, I find the following quotation, purporting to be from a speech made before the Southern Society of New York by Virginia's Senator Carter Glass: "Jube Early was an unreconstructed rebel to the day of his death. He used to come frequently into my newspaper office and one day he said to me: 'Carter, I had hoped to repent my past sins in the hope that when I died I would go to heaven and see Robert E. Lee. But I have changed my mind. I want to go to hell...
...makes a rather interesting and apt story except for one thing. I graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in the Class of 1897 and I seem to recall going from Lexington to Lynchburg in the spring of 1894 to help bury General Early; the Corps of Cadets having been designated as an Escort of Honor by the Governor of Virginia. If this is correct, General Early died something over four years before Generals Wheeler and Lee received their commissions as Major-Generals of Volunteers, U.S.A. General Early evidently had the gift of prophecy along with his many other admirable qualities...
Gunners Van Devanter and Phillips had just settled themselves in a blind beside Occoquan Bay when up rowed Federal Deputy Game Warden George King and a Virginia State warden, looking for game law violators. Without recognizing either of the gunners, Warden King asked to see their hunting licenses. Startled, the two men fumbled in their gunning coats. Chaplain Phillips produced his license first. It was entirely in order. Pasted on it, as required by a law enacted by Congress in 1934, was a $1 Federal hunting stamp, proceeds from the sale of which are used to buy and develop land...
...Cotton Mather and the rest of Boston's thundering divines. Young John Copley worked with him, was welcomed in Boston's best houses. At the age of 16 he was already known as a skillful portraitist, in 1755 painted a miniature of redheaded Colonel Washington of Virginia, who was already known as a skillful Indian fighter...
...encouraging colonization to smash Spain. The trading companies themselves were usually split with factional fights among their directors, riddled with graft. They organized and abandoned colonies as it suited the strategies of their ceaseless struggles at home. Although John Smith and Pocahontas appear in Professor Andrews' chapters on Virginia, they receive less attention than the tobacco trade, seem scarcely more significant than a strange stock company known as "The Society of Particular Adventurers for Traffique with Virginia" which was formed to exploit the colonists. Also novel in Professor Andrews' first volume was his analysis of the human material...