The Magazine of History With Notes and Queries (Volume 18) - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1914. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THREE CENTURIES OF AN OLD VIRGINIA TOWN-- PETERSBURG AND THE APPOMATTOX NO OTHER city in America has more vital links connecting it with the crucial periods of the national history than has Petersburg. It was the objective point of Cornwallis when he struck north after his Carolina campaign, and it was the objective point of Grant when he struck south after his Wilderness Campaign and Cold Harbor. In each case, it was the turning point of destiny, and at Petersburg were enacted the opening scenes of the last acts of the two great war dramas that closed at Yorktown and at Appomattox. Petersburg is a palimpsest written upon by each of the five periods of American history. Beneath the fair writing of this modern day there are still visible the red strokes of the Civil war. Beneath this, however, may still be read the story of a strong and cultured people, active and successful in the national period. Then come the grim tracings of the wars with England, and beneath them the sturdy strokes of the colonists have left their deeds "writ large," with markings of the Indian period still visible to the careful eye. Thus Petersburg is the most interesting city in America, for the reason that each age has left upon it an impress that has not been effaced by the attrition of the new era. GENERAL OUTLINE THREE CENTURIES Here lived perhaps Pocahontas and probably that "Queene of Appamatuck" that brought Smith water to wash his hands. Nearby was the site of the East India School established by the colonists, and yet nearer, the site of Pierce's plantation, where four of the settlers were killed in the first Indian massacre. Thus, Petersburg has a clear line of descent of three centuries. It was Appamatuck on Smith's map of Virginia in 1612; it was Peter's Point in the ...