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Harper's Weekly Newspaper

A newspaper was published on June 29, 1861, which was a few weeks prior to the First Battle of Bull Run. Harper's Weekly shows a bias toward the Union…

Union Mills Station at Orange & Alexandria Railroad

Two locomotives at Union Mills Station in Clifton, VA at the Orange & Alexandria Railroad in 1861, two soldiers standing on the right side of a…

Mason’s Objections to the Constitution of Government formed by the Convention

This is a third-person document that protests the policies that the Constitution put forward in the eyes of George Mason. According to Mason, he…

Constitution of the United States

The Constitution acted like a colossal merger, uniting a group of states with different interests, laws, and cultures. Under America’s first national…

Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac: Petition

For my research project on the Potomac railroad during and around the civil war (focusing on governmental proceedings), I will use a document called…

This clipping of the article discusses the initial problems the RFP (Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac) Railway Company had in terms of the…