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    Virginius Island is a formerly inhabited island of some 12 acres (4.9 ha), on the Shenandoah River in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The island was created...
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    Virginius Island, An Abandoned Village In West Virginia," Only in Your State. https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/west-virginia/abandoned-town-virginius-island-hike-wv/...
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  • center of the Affair Virginius Island, West Virginia, an island on the Shenandoah River in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia Alan Virginius (born 2003), French...
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  • This is a list of islands of West Virginia. List of islands on the Potomac River...
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  • Fayette County Turkey Knob, in Fayette County Vanetta, in Fayette County Virginius Island Volcano, in Wood County War Eagle, in Mingo County Westerly, in Fayette...
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  • 22, 2015. Dabney, Virginius (October 5, 2012). Richmond: The Story of a City – Virginius Dabney – Google Books. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-3430-3...
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    1865–1890 (Virginia State Library, 1981). Dabney, Virginius (1990). Richmond: The Story of a City (revised and expanded ed.). University Press of Virginia. ISBN 978-0813912745...
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    Harpers Ferry National Historical Park (category 1944 establishments in West Virginia)
    Virginius Island, through which its track ran; the rail line, although rebuilt, is still in daily use. It was a working-class community. The island's...
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    dead link‍]." September 2, 2004. Retrieved on January 20, 2010. Dabney, Virginius. Richmond: The Story of a City. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company...
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    USS Despatch (1873) (category Shipwrecks of the Virginia coast)
    Captain Whiting to Bahia Honda, Cuba, to take charge of Virginius, and took Virginius in tow for Key West. Despatch remained with the fleet, serving as a dispatch...
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    Confederate troops in Richmond voting as regiments viva voce.Dabney, Virginius. (1983). Virginia: The New Dominion, a History from 1607 to the Present. Doubleday...
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    Virginius (1971). Virginia, The New Dominion. University Press of Virginia. pp. 213–216. ISBN 978-0-8139-1015-4. "1830 Virginia Constitution". West Virginia...
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    privately owned ship, the Virginius, was used to run guns, ammunition, and vital supplies to the Cuban rebels. The captain of the Virginius was Joseph Fry, former...
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    Ulysses S. Grant's Secretary of the Navy George Robeson, in response to the Virginius Incident, ordered the USS Puritan of the American Civil War laid down...
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    Atlantic and was in the force concentrated at Key West lest war with Spain break out over the "Virginius affair". Spanish officials at Santiago de Cuba had...
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    Robert E. Lee (category Army of Northern Virginia)
    National Statuary Hall, Washington, D.C. Edward Virginius Valentine, sculptor, 1909 Robert E Lee, Virginia Monument, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Frederick...
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    Kentucky Danny Coale, NFL wide receiver, Dallas Cowboys, Indianapolis Colts Virginius Dabney, editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch (1936–1969) and winner of...
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    August 1, 2023. Dabney, Virginius. Virginia: The New Dominion (1971) Heatwole, Cornelius J. A history of education in Virginia (Macmillan, 1916) online...
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    that the Virginius, a gun-running ship delivering men and munitions to Cuban revolutionaries, which was captured by Spain during the Virginius Affair,...
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    New Commonwealth: a history of Virginia, 1607–2007, 2008 ISBN 978-0-8139-2769-5, p. 145-147 Dabney, Virginius. Virginia: the New Dominion. 1971. ISBN 978-0-8139-1015-4...
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  • The University of Virginia is a public university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Following is a partial list of its notable alumni, faculty, board members...
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    The 1872 West Virginia gubernatorial election took place on October 8, 1872, to elect the governor of West Virginia. Incumbent John Jeremiah Jacob was...
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    Confederate troops in Richmond voting as regiments viva voce.Dabney, Virginius. (1983). Virginia: The New Dominion, a History from 1607 to the Present. Doubleday...
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    Brief History of African Americans in West Virginia," West Virginia Culture "African-Americans in West Virginia". Archived from the original on December...
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    The 1869 Rhode Island gubernatorial election took place on April 7, 1869, in order to elect the governor of Rhode Island. Republican candidate and incumbent...
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    in West Virginia was reorganized, and Hayes's division was assigned to George Crook's Army of West Virginia. Advancing into southwestern Virginia, they...
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    USS Powhatan (1850) (category Ships built in Portsmouth, Virginia)
    Civil War. She was named for Powhatan, a Native American chief of eastern Virginia. She was one of the last, and largest, of the United States Navy's paddle...
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    Potomac Company (category Historic American Engineering Record in Virginia)
    Harpers Ferry, Virginia (since 1863, West Virginia) the Company built the Shenandoah Canal in the Shenandoah River, creating Virginius Island, an industrial...
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    Grant begins second term; Wilson becomes the 18th vice president 1873 – Virginius Affair 1873 - One of the first schools of nursing opens at Bellevue Hospital...
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    under Captain Virginius O. Cassell Organized in 1808. On June 22, 1813, under Captain Arthur Emerson, this unit was stationed at Carney Island and conspicuous...
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