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AUGUSTA, Virginia in the 1870s: 1 through 10 of 13

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  1. The Bayonet Election Law
    date February 28, 1871map AUGUSTA, Virginiatags War

    The United States Congress passed a bill called the Bayonet Election Law which placed all elections for Representatives in Congress under the control of the United States marshals and their deputies. Congress felt the need to pass the bill in order to protect the rights of citizens to vote. The bill was regarded as an intrusion of states' rights throughout the South. The first section of the bill mandated...

  2. Horace Greeley Visits Southern States
    date June 21, 1871map AUGUSTA, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations, War

    Horace Greeley, a Northerner from New York and Republican, took a tour of the American south in 1871 and then returned to New York to deliver an address of his trip to the Union Republican General Committee. Greeley said that the purpose of his trip was to vindicate the North from the popular opinion that the North was trying to oppress the South and to explain to southerners that the northerners and...

  3. European Immmigration to the South
    date 1871map AUGUSTA, Virginiatags Agriculture, Economy, Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/Boosterism, War

    After the Civil War, there was a vast migration of Southerners to Northern States. Many parts of the South were ruined by the Civil War because most of the battles occurred in southern states. The population in the south decreased significantly by the end of the Civil War because of death and because many African-Americans left the south.In order to raise the population, many southern cities encouraged...

  4. Fighting in the Schoolyard
    date January 10, 1873map AUGUSTA, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Education, Race-Relations, Women

    The schoolyard of the Colored Academy at Pine River was alive with excitement on the afternoon of the tenth of January, 1873. George Green, a sturdy young man of around eighteen years, attempted to kiss the little bronze beauty Roberta. When Professor Thomas Henaforth discovered what had transpired outside of his school, he set out to punish the mischievous youth. At four o'clock in the afternoon,...

  5. Preaching on the Steps of the Courthouse
    date November 20, 1873map AUGUSTA, Virginiatags Church/Religious-Activity, Crime/Violence, Law

    A stranger preaching on the steps of their courthouse interrupted the daily chores of the citizens of Staunton on Thursday. Andrew Jackson Kearney, supposedly of Loudon County, had been drifting from city to city, traveling from Harrisonburg to Staunton to spread his religious fervor. A curious crowd gathered to hear the sermon that followed his public singing and praying, eloquently speaking to...

  6. Schoolteacher Sees Importance of Religion in Education
    date October 27, 1874map AUGUSTA, Virginiatags Church/Religious-Activity, Education, Women

    An Augusta County, Virginia schoolteacher named Mary Susan Gregory recognized the importance of using her devotion to God to show her students how to live their lives properly. In a diary entry dated October 1874, she noted, "as teachers we should set an example worthy of imitation, (for there is a fearful responsibility resting upon us,) and there is no better way of doing it than by showing...

  7. Staunton Citizens Make Excursion with Various Temperance Organizations
    date July 11, 1876map AUGUSTA, Virginiatags Arts/Leisure, Law, Urban-Life/Boosterism, Women

    In July 1876 the various temperance organizations of the city of Staunton, Virginia organized a day-long excursion by train involving between two and three hundred citizens, almost all of whom were organization members. The day was filled with an atmosphere of goodwill and entertainment. According to the local newspaper, The Spectator, upon arrival at the excursion's destination "[t]he day...

  8. Women in Education During the 19th Century
    date June, 1878 to 1878map AUGUSTA, Virginiatags Education, Women

    “From my own personal knowledge of the school, I cordially commend it, as one of the very best female schools within my knowledge, in the Southern states”. This is just one of many testimonials taken from an advertising pamphlet from the Virginia Female Institute, published in June 1878. During the 19th century, women were finding new ways to exert freedom and attempt to obtain power. One of the...

  9. Youthful Misconduct in Celebration of Christmas
    date December 24, 1878 to January 8, 1879map AUGUSTA, Virginiatags Arts/Leisure, Church/Religious-Activity, Crime/Violence, Law, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    The members of the City Council of Staunton, Virginia voted against the suspension over the Christmas holiday of an ordinance that forbad the use of pop-crackers in the streets. Christmas was to be celebrated in a joyful, yet quiet manner, not with the use of small explosives, which are noisy and might interfere with private celebrations. On the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth of December, a serenade...

  10. Youthful Misconduct in Celebration of Christmas
    date December 24, 1878 to January 8, 1879map AUGUSTA, Virginiatags Arts/Leisure, Church/Religious-Activity, Crime/Violence, Law, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    The members of the City Council of Staunton, Virginia voted against the suspension over the Christmas holiday of an ordinance that forbad the use of pop-crackers in the streets. Christmas was to be celebrated in a joyful, yet quiet manner, not with the use of small explosives, which are noisy and might interfere with private celebrations. On the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth of December, a serenade...

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