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Anderson, William A. (1842–1930) – Encyclopedia Virginia


Early Years
William Alexander Anderson was born on May 11, 1842, at Montrose, near Fincastle in Botetourt County, the eldest of three sons and sixth of nine children of Francis Thomas Anderson, later a justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, and Mary Ann Alexander Anderson. He was educated at home and also attended the Fincastle Academy. Anderson enrolled at Washington College (later Washington and Lee University) in Lexington in 1857 but did not graduate. In April 1861 he left school to join the Liberty Hall Volunteers, which he and his classmates had just formed. He enlisted on June 2 and became orderly sergeant of Company I, 4th Virginia Infantry Regiment. Anderson was shot in the left kneecap at the First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run) on July 21, 1861, spent several months recuperating at the Richmond home of his uncle Joseph Reid Anderson, a prominent industrialist, and was discharged on December 14. In 1863 he entered the University of Virginia, from which he ....

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Farr, R. R. (1845–1892) – Encyclopedia Virginia


Richard Ratcliffe Farr was born on November 30, 1845, in Fairfax County and was the son of Richard Ratcliffe Farr, who died about ten weeks before he was born, and Margaret Conn Willcoxon Farr, who reared him and his elder brother. During the Civil War, he and his mother lived as refugees in Washington County after the Second Battle of Manassas in August 1862. On November 2, 1863, he enlisted as a private in Company B of the 43rd Virginia Cavalry Regiment, under the command of John Singleton Mosby. One year later Farr was severely wounded in the thigh, but he recovered and served until paroled in Winchester in April 1865. ....

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Public School System in Virginia, Establishment of the – Encyclopedia Virginia


Before the Civil War none of the states south of the Potomac and Ohio rivers had public school systems. In the 1780s and 1810s the former governor Thomas Jefferson recommended creating a statewide school system, and the governors David Campbell and James McDowell made similar recommendations in the 1830s and 1840s. But the Constitutional Convention of 1829–1830 refused even to debate a proposal that the state take responsibility to educate its children. White Virginians who could afford it hired tutors or sent their children to private schools. By the middle of the nineteenth century numerous academies for both boys and girls operated throughout Virginia, and some Presbyterian, Catholic, and Episcopal churches sponsored schools. The General Assembly did little more than authorize counties to establish schools for educating paupers. That system, some Virginians complained to the assembly in the mid-1850s, “has been a failure. It has failed to enlist public confidence, because i ....

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