Vintage Images: Virginia (82 images)
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"Landing of Negroes at Jamestown Virginia from...
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Map drawn by French of Virginia and the...
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An interesting view of Pre Civil War events in...
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Military Court Trial of the Lincoln...
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Vintage Illustration: Battle of Williamsburg,...
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Civil War: CSS Virginia first news of the...
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Civil War: James River, Va. Deck and turret of...
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Civil War: Double turreted Monitor Onondaga, on...
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Civil War gunboat "Hunchback on the James...
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Guarding the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay and...
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Fort Monroe at Old Point Comfort, Hampton,...
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Alexandria, Virginia. Slave pen with black...
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Rappahannock River, Virginia. Fugitive African...
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Civil War on the James River, Virginia. U.S.S....
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Drewry's Bluff, Interior of Fort Darling part...
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![Civil War: Harper's Weekly May 31, 1862 Cover BALLOON VIEW OF THE ATTACK ON FORT DARLING, IN THE JAMES RIVER, BY COMMANDER ROGERS'S GUN-BOAT FLOTILLA, "GALENA," "MONITOR," ETC.--[SEE PAGE 343.] .THE BATTLE AT FORT DARLING...WE illustrate on page 337 the unequal conflict between our gun-boats Galena and Monitor and a powerful rebel fort called Fort Darling, on the banks of the James River, some seven miles from Richmond. It seems that our gun-boats Galena, Monitor, Aroostook, Port Royal, and Naugatuck advanced up the James River to within seven miles of Richmond, passing or silencing the batteries as they advanced. At Fort Darling they found the river obstructed with sunken vessels and stones, and were exposed to a heavy plunging fire from a fort situate on a bluff 200 feet high. The Naugatuck burst her gun--a 100-pounder Parrott--at the 7th fire. The wooden vessels sheered off, being incapable of standing the fire from the fort and the rifle-pits with which the river shores were lined. For four hours the Galena and Monitor fought the forts at great disadvantage. They were exposed to a plunging fire which they were not built to withstand; the deck of the Galena was perforated by almost every shot, and her loss in killed and wounded was heavy. Neither vessel could elevate her guns sufficiently to silence the batteries of Fort Darling. After four hours' fighting the squadron therefore withdrew...Commodore Goldsborough has since gone up the the river with his squadron and some mortar-boats, with which it is believed he will soon be able to take Fort Darling and clear the way to Richmond. .](http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000sAn7cKMkyM0/t/150/I0000sAn7cKMkyM0.jpg)
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Civil War: Ironclad Union Navy gunboats on...
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Civil War: Rebels evacuating Mechanicsville,...
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Civil War: Aerial perspective view from...
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Civil War: Union forces occupy the capitol of...
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Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on...
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Civil War: Petersburg, Virginia. Union (Second...
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Civil War: Federal troops at Hampton, Virginia...
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A wounded John Brown lays on a cot a center. in...
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Sarah Emma Edmonds (1841 - 1898), a...
Images of Virginia's Past from Jamestown in the 1600s to the 20th Century.
