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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- VHS_101222_020.JPG: Why Dolly Madison?
This outdoor neon sign is from Dolly Madison Ice Cream at 2400 North Avenue in Richmond. Dolley (the correct spelling) Payne (1772-1849) married James Madison in 1794. When he was secretary of state, she became Washington DC's leading hostess because President Thomas Jefferson was a widower. She is said to have introduced ice cream to the White House when her husband became president in 1809. For this reason, and because she was known as a gracious hostess, bakeries, ice cream parlors, and ice cream manufacturers used her name.
- VHS_101222_038.JPG: Maggie Lena (Mitchell) Walker, 1867-1934
P. Beneduce, 1934
Born in Richmond, Maggie Walker taught school before accepting a position as executive secretary of a black burial society, the Independent Order of St. Luke. In then years, she increased its membership thirty fold. In 1903, the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank opened its doors with Mrs. Walker as president. Now known as the Consolidated Bank and Trust Company, it is the nation's oldest black bank still in operation. Mrs. Walker also participated in many charitable activities and her home is operated as an historic site by the National Park Service.
- VHS_101222_050.JPG: Dabney Herndon Maury, 1822-1900
George Thomas Brewster
A native of Fredericksburg, Maury graduated from the University of Virginia and the US Military Academy at West Point. He resigned from the US Army in 1861 and entered Confederate service. He was chief of staff to General Van Dorn in the area beyond the Mississippi River and later commanded the District of the Gulf. He attained the rank of major general. After the war, he settled in Richmond and in 1868 founded the Southern Historical Society. This is the model for the bust at Vicksburg National Military Park.
- VHS_101222_059.JPG: John Patterson Branch, 1830-1915
William Couper, ca 1903
Before the Civil War, Branch was a merchant in Petersburg, during it a member of the 44th Virginia Infantry Battalion, and afterward a banker in Richmond. He became president of Merchants National Bank.
The sculptor, William Couper, was a native of Norfolk whose father owned Couper Marble Works there.
- VHS_101222_074.JPG: Meriwether Lewis and his dog Seaman
Maquette of a statue at Fort Lewis, Washington
By John Jewell, 2005
Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) was born in Albemarle County to a family well acquainted with the Jeffersons. When Thomas Jefferson became president of the United States in 1801, he asked young Lewis, an army captain, to become his personal secretary. Jefferson and Lewis planned a covert expedition to find a water route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, but the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 allowed the expedition to be made openly. Lewis chose William Clark, also an Albemarle resident, to join him in leading the Corps of Discovery, remembered as the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-06. Seaman, Lewis' Newfoundland dog, accompanied the expedition to the Pacific Ocean and back. According to an 1814 account, he remained with his master until Lewis' death and then died of grief.
- VHS_101222_083.JPG: Amelie Louise (Rives) Chanler Troubetzkoy, 1863-1945
(Princess Pierre Troubetzkoy)
Paul Troubetzkoy, 1895
Amelie Reves of Richmond was a popular novelist and playwright from the 1880s to the 1920s. Her second husband was the portrait painter Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy. This bust was sculpted by her brother-in-law.
- VHS_101222_090.JPG: Rawley White Martin, MD
Lieut Col 53 VA Infantry
CSA 1835 - 1912
- VHS_101222_096.JPG: Eagles from the flagpoles presented to Richmond's John Marshall High School in 1950 in memory of the former members of the corps of cadets who gave their lives in the service of their country.
- VHS_101222_118.JPG: Charles Broadway Rouss, 1836-1902
M. Buxbaum, 1895
Before the Civil War, Rouss established a business that became the largest commercial house in Winchester. After service in the 12th Virginia Infantry, he opened a dry goods store in New York City. Becoming a millionaire, he pledged $100,000 -- one-half of the total sum solicited -- for the construction of "The Battle Abbey of the South," a building that would memorialize the character of the South and her defenders.
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is a memorial to
Charles Broadway Rouss
a Confederate soldier
whose gracious generosity
made possible the erection
of the Confederate Memorial
Institute and whose abiding
interest in the history of
the Confederate states will
always be treasured by a
grateful people.
- VHS_101222_128.JPG: John Singleton Mosby, 1833-1916
Edward V. Valentine
Mosby, a native of Powhattan County, practiced law before the Civil War, at the outset of which he enlisted in the Confederate cavalry and rose with JEB Stuart. In January 1863, he began operating as a ranger, harassing Union detachments, and capturing their supplies and payrolls. His exploits in northern Virginia earned him the nickname "The Gray Ghost."
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