Was capital of the Confederacy during the American Civil War

Usage examples of richmond.

She had her usual complaints--repairs were needed, good servants impossible to find, the local prices outrageous--but the longer she stayed at Richmond Hill, the more attached she became, and Adams concurred.

Through the sweltering summer, Adams never missed a day in the Senate, rolling in each morning from Richmond Hill in a one-horse chaise, not the fine carriage portrayed in hostile newspaper accounts.

Medical Center of Virginia in downtown Richmond and, according to the head of anesthesiology at St.

It was, in fact, the siege of Richmond which General Grant had undertaken, and the fighting consisted less of battles, in the ordinary acceptation of that word, than of attempts to break through the lines of his adversary--now north of James River, now east of Petersburg, now at some point in the long chain of redans which guarded the approaches to the coveted Southside Railroad, which, once in possession of the Federal commander, would give him victory.

Richmond, near San Francisco dock workers found bees in the hold of a ship.

Having called six contractors between Charlottesville and Richmond, and being asked five times if she had checked with Aaron Belton, she had to admit that perhaps she would have to swallow her pride and ask him to come back.

And Curtis was from Baltimore, Mistral was a Brooklynite, and Peter Deddingfield and I grew up in Richmond.

I found from speaking with sellers of walking sticks that my guess was correct: there were but four or five chief selections of canes available made from Malacca in Baltimore, and likely in Richmond, as well.

It explained that a shipment to Richmond had been mixed up with other canes, and kindly requested him to identify the one cane that had been held by Poe and return it here.

The Rebels added considerably to those in their hands by their captures at Chickamauga, while we gained a great many at Mission Ridge, Cumberland Gap and elsewhere, so that at the time we arrived in Richmond the Rebels had about fifteen thousand prisoners in their hands and our Government had about twenty-five thousand.

Richmond, embrasserait la religion romaine, et, entrant dans les ordres, suivrait M.

There was the great feud with Longstreet, a dispute begun by a newspaper report in Richmond, giving Hill more credit than Longstreet felt he deserved for the good fights on the Virginia peninsula, the Seven Days battles.

Corps Engineer, Colonel Bob Braggly, commander of the Corps Engineering Brigade, preferred turning the Libby and Mosby Hills into a giant firebase and giving up the center of Richmond to the Posleen.

McGarvey drove down to Richmond, where he returned his rental car to the agency and checked on flights to Eugene.

When Richmond became the capital soon afterward, and the Southern Congress assembled, five brigadier-generals were appointed, Generals Cooper, Albert S.