Saving an Endangered Lithograph
December 28, 2020
On May 15, 1858, Colonel Thomas Pearson August ordered the First Regiment of Virginia Volunteers to assemble on May 22nd for a four-day encampment in Ashland, Virginia. This 1858 meeting was notable as the last peaceful encampment of the militia before the start of the Civil War. The event was memorialized in a hand-colored lithograph... Read the full article