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Newspaper

Danville Register

Location

Danville, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jul 04, 1976

Page

6

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.

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.

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.

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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