It’s said “a photo is worth a thousand words”, which is why this encyclopedia has made every effort to include photographs of places and things relating to early Civil War Virginia. It’s one thing to read about a battle, another to actually see the terrain where it took place. Statues and grave markers remind us that these were real people who lived and died during our country’s most dramatic period, and not fiction confined to the pages of a book.
The following pages have been updated recently with new photos:
Spirit of '61 