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Unidentified Member of the Richmond HowitzersThe Richmond Howitzer Company of the 1st Regiment of Volunteers was founded on November 9, 1859, by George Wythe Randolph, a grandson of Thomas Jefferson, a U.S. Navy veteran, and a Richmond lawyer. After electing Randolph its first captain, the company, which was recruited from elite Richmond circles, marched to Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia), to help provide security during Brown’s trial and subsequent execution. Curious out-of-towne...

A Christmas Hymn for Our Troubled Time Time 12/24/2020 David French © Go Nakamura—Getty Images Medical staff member Tanna Ingraham holds the hand of a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) at the United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, on Dec. 21. What is the place of the “Christmas spirit” in 2020? America (and the world) are enduring a terrible wave of death. Its people suffer from a degree of want and fear unmatched since the Great Depression in the ...

—Richard III EDITOR’S NOTE: America’s COVID-19 death rate has skyrocketed since Thanksgiving, and disease experts say we’re in for a hard winter. But the nation has surmounted tough times before, just as Culpeper County did in the Civil War winter of 1863-64. In December 1863, three years of what Shakespeare would call a “grim-visaged war” had already devastated Culpeper. But matters were about to get a whole lot worse for the county’s war-weary residents hunk...

You probably know the popular Christmas hymn, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.” What you may, or may not know, is who wrote it and when. The lyrics to the song began as a poem written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The poem was written almost a decade prior to being set to music to be sung as a Christmas hymn. The poem was written on Christmas day, in 1863, when Longfellow heard church-bells ringing in the distance. Wadsworth’s poem was titled, “Christmas Bells.” It...