Byrd Willis News Today

1822: Excerpt from the Logbook of the U.S. Schooner Shark LCDR M.C. Perry commanding: Remarks, Tuesday, Jan. 8 The Wind has veered to the Eastward and become more pleasant, and

On Saturday, the three unknown soldiers of the U.S. Colored Troops will be honored in Culpeper County, Va., not far from where they were executed. It’s part of a years-long effort by Lambert, the head of the nonprofit Freedom Foundation, to highlight the area’s Black history, working together with Civil War Trails and the Piedmont Environmental Council.

1856: William Hackley recorded in his diary. Rose at 4 and walked on the beach, returned home and bathed. At 8 a.m. barometer 29.50, thermometer 85.5, wind south southwest 3, clouds 7. Read papers. Wrote Byrd Willis and Sam Butler. P.m. siesta. Felt sore all over as if I had a cold coming. Went to Alexander Patterson’s after tea but was hurried home by the threat of rain which commenced shortly after we got home and lasted about one hour attended with considerable wind. 1900: The Key West ...