It’s a sad day for March 25. Today is the 260th anniversary of today losing status as New Year’s Day. Beginning in 1752, New Year’s…
Grant’s cabin at City Point: it is seriously small, leaving no doubt of Mr. and Mrs. Grant’s genuine love and physical affection for each other.…
As the NPS ranger described Dr. Richard Eppes, plantation owner at City Point, Virginia — that he inhabited the very upper echelons of wealth, that his 2300-acre…
City Point National Cemetery was established 1866, according to the US VA. “Casualties were originally interred in burial grounds near the hospitals, and later they…
Green could be hard to come by, even for the Irish, in the nineteenth century. A one-step green color was not available to textile artists…
“The laborers about the wharfs, when not negroes, were almost without exception Irish….” In his 1910 memoir, Chicago journalist Frederick Francis Cook cites the collision…