On January 7, 1863, the Lynchburg Daily Virginian posted an article that called President Lincoln a monster. Their opinion stated that President Lincoln was instigator of servile insurrection, including amongst his victims helpless women and children. Lincoln should be considered an outlaw and a reward offered for his head. Also, the paper said that a fitting response must be made in response to...
Death by disease was a much more present fear then than now. Mrs. Mary B. Bondurant of Bedford County, Virginia, succumbed to consumption at the startlingly young age of thirty-four. She died on August 1st, 1864 in Lynchburg and was survived by her husband, John P. Bondurant. Three of her sisters had already suffered equal fates at the hands of the slow wasting disease.
Her obituary, which...
On July 08, 1861, Susan Leigh Blackford wrote to her husband, a lieutenant who served in the Confederate army to inform him she was not “at father’s all day sewing for the [Confederate] soldiers,” her regular daily activities, but writing for a special occasion. Blackford agreed to open a local Ladies’ Hospital for injured soldiers with another woman, Mrs. Otey. Nineteenth century women were...