In August 1864, Grant captured the Weldon Railroad, one of the key supply lines into Richmond, VA. He sent the Army of Potomac’s Second Corps to tear up the Weldon Railroad track heading south. An understrength and overused Second Corps was operating…
The image is an excerpt from the Harpers weekly in 1886. The image displays the key places in and around Mount Vernon such as Fort Washington, the Estate, the main hallway, the landing, and the tomb. It also showcases the distant view of D.C. and…
A very importnat page from the President Thompson scrapbook. THis page highlights early iformation about the campus's early development, administrative outreach, community involvment, etc.
Two paragraphs detailing statistics about faculty and staff responses to a survey about being in favor of football, opposed to it, or undecided on the issue.