Twenty-year-old Morgan Dana Harrington, 20, of Roanoke County, Va., went missing Saturday night (Oct.17, 2009) at a concert at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, Virginia. Miss Harrington was last seen wearing a black T-shirt with Pantera written on the front in tan letters. She also had on a black mini-skirt with black tights [...]
19. To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings
The Civil War and Reconstruction (HIST 119) Professor Blight uses Herman Melville’s poem “On the Slain Collegians” to introduce the horrifying slaughter of 1864. The architect of the strategy that would eventually lead to Union victory, but at a staggering human cost, was Ulysses S. Grant, brought East to assume control of all Union armies [...]