President Davis is trying desperately to hold us together, a people who are indignantly demanding our freedoms, rightly so! ... William Byrd founded the present City of Richmond by having Major William Mayo lay the town out into lots and promoting a lottery to sell them off. ...

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Robert E. Lee Early Years: Robert E. Lee was born on January 19, 1807. He was born in Stratford, Virginia. But after four years he moved from Stratford and moved to Alexandria, Virginia were he spent most of his youth. His father Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, a Revolutionary War hero, alo...

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