Yorktown Centennial Handbook
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Stevens, John Austin) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Yorktown Centennial Handbook: Historical and Topographical Guide to the Yorktown Peninsula, Richmond, James River and Norfolk In the historical portion of this Hand-Book the reader will find short narratives of two famous campaigns which, at the distance of nearly a century from each other, determined the fate of the American Republic, and made the Virginia Peninsula one of the historic countries of the world. The best sources have been consulted and followed. The biographical sketches of the high French officers who shared the toil and the glories of the Yorktown campaign, and of the family of Lafayette, have been prepared from the best and most recent authorities. These are followed by an historic account of the proceedings of Congress in 1781 and 1880, in reference to the victory and the monument to the French alliance, the corner stone of which will be laid in October, added to which is a description of the design submitted for the column and of the inscriptions to be engraved upon it. The second part is a historic and topographical guide to the Yorktown Peninsula, with its quaint old towns, and to the various points of interest the traveler may find on the descent of the James River from Richmond to its mouth; and finally presents a brief sketch of the seaports of Norfolk and Portsmouth, the future metropolis of the Southern States. At the close will be found a traveler´s guide made up from the summer schedule of the railroad and steamship lines which connect the Peninsula with the North, South, East, and West. The writer acknowledges his obligations to his friend, Mr. Charles W. Coleman, Jr., of Williamsburg, for assistance in the local details; to Judge Advocate Asa Bird Gardner, of the U. S. Army, for military information, and to Mr. F. A. Walker, the courteous chief of the Census Bureau at Washington, for advance sheets of the census of 1880, and to Col. J. E. Peyton, the superintendent of the Yorktown Centennial Association, for his advice and assistance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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