Identifier: youngpeopleshist00maury (find matches)
Title: A young people's history of Virginia and Virginians ..
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Maury, Dabney Herndon, 1822-1900
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Publisher: Richmond, B. F. Johnson

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tate has been adjusted. Hermines and her factories, her commerce, her institutionsof learning, her great system of public schools, in whichall classes of her people are freely educated, have grownand prospered. The Capitol Disaster.—Under Governor Walkers ad-ministration a disaster occurred only paralleled by theburning of the theatre in 1811. April 27, 1870, an im-mense crowd had assembled in the chamber of the Courtof Appeals, on the third floor of the Capitol, to hear the 208 History of Virginia and Virginians. decision of the court in an election case involving the titleto the mayoralty of the city of Richmond. Just as thejudges were about to enter the court-room the floor gaveway, precipitating the dense crowd to the floor below.Sixty-five persons, some of them prominent in public andprivate life, were killed, and more than two hundred in-jured, were rescued from the ruins. Our Monuments.—Beautiful monuments to our greatdead have been erected in our public places. The British
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SOLDIERS AND SAILOKS MONUMENT, LIBBY HILL PARK. admirers of Stonewall Jackson have erected a monumentto him in our Capitol Square, and caused two large goldmedals to be annually presented to the first and secondgraduates of the Virginia Military Institute, of whichschool Jackson was a professor. The beautiful recumbentstatue of Lee, which Valentine executed, is over his gravein the chapel at Washington and Lee University. This History of Virginia and Virginians. 209 fine work is surpassed only by the statue of Jefferson bythe same artist. The statues of General A. P. Hill, of theYoung Howitzer, and of the Soldiers and Sailors monu-ment, all by Sheppard, attest the skill and genius of ournative artists. The equestrian statue of Lee, which hasbeen erected at the end of Franklin street, Richmond,executed by the French sculptor Mercie, does not conveya pleasing impression of our great chief to many of thosewho followed him so long and who will ever carry in theirmemories and hearts his gr

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