Pittsylvania County roles in the American Revolution
Pittsylvanians supported independence across Virginia and Congress while frontier fighters battled in Pittsylvania. Frances Hallam Hurt’s Intimate History notes militia muster, Dunmore battles, Indian campaigns, Tory tales, Greene’s campaign, and a postwar graves restoration by local groups in 1781.
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Williamsburg
Philadelphia
Pittsylvania County
Frances Hallam Hurt
Pittsylvanians
Maude Carter Clement
Pittsylvania
Dillard
Jesse Heard
Robert Dalton
Halifax
Charlotte
Dinwiddie
Gwynn’s Island
Lord Dunmore
Virginia
Dunmore
William Pitt
Earl of Chatham
Hall of Parliament
Peter Perkins
Fort Patrick Henry
John Donelson
William Witcher
Berry Hill
Hurt
Morgan
Cowpens
Cornwallis
Greene
Dan River
Halifax County
Guilford Court House
Pittsylvania Young Farmers Organization
County Historical Society
Daughters of the American Revolution
Robert Adams
Brights Community
Jacob Berger
Siloam Church
Toshes
Griffith Dickenson
Chalk Levet
Edmond Fitzgerald
Shockoe
Joshua Stone
Hermosa
Mt. Airy
Thoms Carter
Concord
Weal
City and County Fought Germans And War Efforts 1916
Danville voters backed Wilson with 921 of 1500 ballots while Saunders led local supporters with 895 votes and Swanson ran unopposed. The piece covers war mobilization, troop movements, a looming 1918 budget, and local acts like the National Woman's Service League forming a Danville branch as the nation heads toward war.
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W. Marion Saunders
Danvillians
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
Edward W. Saunders
Rocky Mount
Beverly A. Davis
Claude A. Swanson
Chatham
Pancho Villa
Navy
Congress
Mexico
Danville
Company M
Danville Grays
Virginia National Guard
Virginia
Atlantic
Imperial
Germany
William TL
Britain
France
Count von Bernstorff
United States
the Register
Washington
Pennsylvania Avenue
Little Janie Lyle
William Lyle
Cabell Street
Danville Traction and Power Co
Danville Chamber of Commerce
National Woman's Service League
Celia Bryan
Red Oss Society
Danville's World War I Mobilization and Patriotism Surge
The Danville area erupts in wartime activity as April 3 votes push war support, many volunteers join Navy Yeomen and Stuart's Cavalry, Red Cross organizes, and local groups rally with drills, parades, and recruitment drives. Townsfolk report rising prices, a German spy arrest, and the formation of Battery E and Coast Artillery units ahead of July mobilizations.
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Senate
Swanson
United States
Navy
Stuart
Danville
Henry A. Wiseman
George Barnett
Marine Corps
Arthur H. Taylor
Danville Register
Corps
Main Street
Henry Steuart
Harry Wooding
Celia Bryan
General Hospital
American Red Cross
Pittsylvania County
Red Cross
Howard Raines
Fred James Camp
Company M
Samuel Mitchell
Scales St
Edward Wheeler
Henry St
Robert Dupree
Hugh T. Williams
Gray St
Grasty Crews
Jefferson St
Dewey Terry
Pelham Ave
Schoolfield
Eugene W. Chaney
Halifax St
U.S. Navy
Darrel G. Jordan
Kemp J. Womble
Lee St
Dwight L. Moody
Covington
Troop L. Stuart
S. M. Buchanan
Baltimore
Ave
E. M. Dogleman
Washington Ave
T. A. Fox, Jr
Green St
E. R. Hamlin
Paxton St
C. T. Marrow, Jr
P. E
Wilson Hall
North Union St
Phil Hughest
G. W. Goode
Rev. Goode
G. W. Woody
W. P. Allen
Chamber of Commerce
Europe
Virginia Military Institute
Lexington
U.S
Roanoke Institute
Danville College
First Virginia Cavalry
Richmond Light Infantry Blues
Roanoke
Henry C. Stuart
Board of Supervisors
Augustus Hunton Painmill
Chatham
France
Vimy Ridge
A. H. Pannill
Ottawa
Congress
Old Dominion
J. T. Luther
Richmond
Craghead St
Mt. Vernon Church
John Wheeler
Lila M. Wheeler
Ireland
Episcopal Diocese of
Southern Virginia
Arthur C. Thompson
Trinity Church
Portsmouth
L. Stuart
Virinia Field Artillery
Irving Berlin
George M. Cohan
Times
Tipperary
Swain
Paree
Mademoiselle
Armentieres
Broadway
The
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Revolution
Charles Hutchings
Thomas Dillard
Benjamin Lankford
Committee of Safety
Virginia Gazette
Tennessee River
Nathaniel Greene
North Carolina
Repose
Pee Dee River
South Carolina
Dan Morgan
Lord Cornwallis
Cascade
Moses Hutchings
Dry Fork
Edward Robertson
Sandy Level
James Mitchell
Callands
Daniel Coleman
Java
Riceville
Isaac Coles
Riddle Farm
Burwell Vaden
Stephen Coleman
Samuel Callands
Avery Mustein
Gretna
Airy
John Wilson
Dan's Hill
John Buckley
David Hunt, Renan
David Hunt
Register
Old Confederacy
L. L. Moore
Ringgold
Washington and Lee
Allentown
Statesville
Battery E
A. H. Wiseman
Taylor Marrow
Ashley Raine
Ind. II
William Spencer, Jr
Arney Talley
National Bank of Danville
First National Bank
Rober Brydon
Frank Talbott
E.S. Lester
Selective Exemption Board
Danville Company of Coast Artillery
W. W. Ferrer
Acree
M. Patton
Fort McClellan