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Chapter
1
War on the Home Front
The Battle Between the Monitor and the Merrimac
Chapter
2
The Battlefront in Virginia
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Chapter
3
Reconstruction
Time Period

1861 to 1876

Reconstruction

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This Thirty-One Star United States Flag was one of the first U.S. flags to fly over Richmond in April 1865. (VMHC 1992.189)
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Notice issued by the black community in Richmond in 1866
Notice issued by the black community in Richmond in 1866. (VMHC Broadsides 1866:13)
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This broadside announced a meeting of two parties—Republicans and Readjusters—at the Nottoway Courthouse to ratify the new state constitution of 1870, which prohibited slavery and established free public schools. (VMHC Mss1 AL546 a 49-64)
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A carpetbag, about 1866, left by a northern visitor in the home of Col. John Pollard of King and Queen County. (VMHC 1967.9)
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A horse-drawn hearse from the African American–owned A. D. Price Funeral Home, Richmond, late 19th century. Thoroughly segregated, African Americans were compelled to establish parallel economies in order to find jobs and such basic services as grocery stores, banks, hotels, and even burial. (VMHC 2005.549)
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Charles Hoffbauer’s Memorial Military Murals at the Virginia Historical Society, 1913-1920.
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United Confederate Veteran reunion badge
United Confederate Veteran reunion badge, 1906–1932. (VMHC 1985.90.3)
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United Confederate Veteran reunion badge, 1906–1932, 1958.3
United Confederate Veteran reunion badge, 1906–1932. (VMHC 1958.3)
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United Confederate Veteran reunion badge, 1906–1932. (VMHC 1966.19)
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United Confederate Veteran reunion badge, 1906–1932, 1989.32.41
United Confederate Veteran reunion badge, 1906–1932. (VMHC 1989.32.41)

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16,000 BCE to 1622 CE
A Land of Opportunity: Creating Virginia
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1623 to 1763
A Distant Dominion
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1764 to 1824
From British Colony to American State
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1825 to 1860
Challenge of a New Century
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1861 to 1876
Civil War and Reconstruction
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1877 to 1924
Virginia in the New South
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1925 to Today
Dynamic Dominion

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