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Richmond – Maupin-Maury House

By From http://thehouseoncarolinestreet.blogspot.com/ • Feb 14th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Having moved to Richmond, I have been excited about the prospect of exploring this historic city. My first excursion was today. I set out armed with the address of the Maupin-Maury House, the house where Betty Herndon Maury’s father, Matthew Fontaine…



Richmond – Maupin-Maury House

By From http://thehouseoncarolinestreet.blogspot.com/ • Feb 14th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Having moved to Richmond, I have been excited about the prospect of exploring this historic city. My first excursion was today. I set out armed with the address of the Maupin-Maury House, the house where Betty Herndon Maury’s father, Matthew Fontaine…



Richmond – Maupin-Maury House

By From http://thehouseoncarolinestreet.blogspot.com/ • Feb 14th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Having moved to Richmond, I have been excited about the prospect of exploring this historic city. My first excursion was today. I set out armed with the address of the Maupin-Maury House, the house where Betty Herndon Maury’s father, Matthew Fontaine…



Richmond – Maupin-Maury House

By From http://thehouseoncarolinestreet.blogspot.com/ • Feb 14th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Having moved to Richmond, I have been excited about the prospect of exploring this historic city. My first excursion was today. I set out armed with the address of the Maupin-Maury House, the house where Betty Herndon Maury’s father, Matthew Fontaine…



Richmond – Maupin-Maury House

By From http://thehouseoncarolinestreet.blogspot.com/ • Feb 14th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Having moved to Richmond, I have been excited about the prospect of exploring this historic city. My first excursion was today. I set out armed with the address of the Maupin-Maury House, the house where Betty Herndon Maury’s father, Matthew Fontaine…



Mrs Senator Gwin’s Fancy Ball

By From http://thehouseoncarolinestreet.blogspot.com/ • Feb 12th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

On April 12, 1858, Mrs. Senator Gwin, wife of Senator William Gwin of California, gave a fancy ball which was the talk of Washington Society for decades afterwards. This ball is mentioned in many memoirs of the era. Most recently I have read a wonderfu…



So ready were we . . .

By From http://thehouseoncarolinestreet.blogspot.com/ • Dec 12th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

From Richmond During the Warby Sallie Brock PutnamUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1996, page 87″So ready were we to catch at the faintest shadow of hope which promised us independence and peace, that we gave credence to many ridiculous reports, and as de…



Illustration – Lincoln and Tad

By From http://thehouseoncarolinestreet.blogspot.com/ • Dec 11th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local


Letter from Matthew Fontaine Maury, 1-19-1862

By From http://thehouseoncarolinestreet.blogspot.com/ • Dec 10th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Official Records of the Union and Confederate NaviesIn the War of the RebellionSeries I – Volume 6Washington, Government Printing Office, 1897Pages 632-635Preliminary report of Flag-Officer Goldsborough, U.S. Navy, February 14, 1862:. . . I forward her…



Fashion – Dinner Dress, 1861

By From http://thehouseoncarolinestreet.blogspot.com/ • Sep 18th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

From Harper’s magazine December 1861