http://appomattoxtours.com World at War Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:53:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://appomattoxtours.com/2010_12/search-for-morgan-dana-harrington-interview-wdbj/ http://appomattoxtours.com/2010_12/search-for-morgan-dana-harrington-interview-wdbj/#comments Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:11:24 +0000 fuad http://appomattoxtours.com/2010_12/search-for-morgan-dana-harrington-interview-wdbj/ 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 and knee-high black boots. She is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs approximately 120 pounds with blond hair and blue eyes. Miss Harrington does not have an identification or her cell phone with her. The public is still encouraged to call or e-mail with any information concerning Miss Harrington and/or her whereabouts. Virginia State Police can be reached (434) 352-3435 or by e-mail at bci-appomattox@vsp.virginia.gov. UVA Police can be reached at (434) 924-7166.

]]> http://appomattoxtours.com/2010_12/search-for-morgan-dana-harrington-interview-wdbj/feed/ 0 http://appomattoxtours.com/2010_03/19-to-appomattox-and-beyond-the-end-of-the-war-and-a-search-for-meanings/ http://appomattoxtours.com/2010_03/19-to-appomattox-and-beyond-the-end-of-the-war-and-a-search-for-meanings/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:49:29 +0000 fuad http://appomattoxtours.com/2010_03/19-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 in 1864. Professor Blight narrates the campaigns of 1864, including the Battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor, and the siege of Petersburg. While Robert E. Lee battled Grant to a stalemate in Virginia, however, William Tecumseh Sherman’s Union forces took Atlanta before beginning their March to the Sea, destroying Confederate morale and fighting power from the inside. Professor Blight closes his lecture with a description of the first Memorial Day, celebrated by African Americans in Charleston, SC 1865. Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu This course was recorded in Spring 2008.

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