From the Library of Virginia
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Reminiscences of Emma Wood Richardson, recalling her life in City Point (Hopewell), Hampton, and Richmond, Virginia.
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Emma Richardson describes her families experiences during the Civil War and provides a description of her mother, Susan David Hicks Wood, and father, Robert Clement Wood. Richardson's father hauled supplies for the Confederate Army and Emma recounts his experiences and the price of supplies during the War.
She also describes the houses in which her family lived, neighbors, the devastation of the countryside surrounding Richmond, family news, and a meeting with Union general Edward Hinks.
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There are two booklets, prepared by the Historic Hopewell Foundation in 2001, featuring the Civil War reminiscences of Emma Wood Richardson (b. 1850) of Hampton, Virginia.
One booklet contains a full transcript of Richardson's memoirs.
Second contains excerpts from the memoirs, along with photographs and drawings of locations mentioned therein. Richardson's story follows the family from Hampton to City Point (now part of Hopewell), Richmond, and Weston Manor, an Appomattox River plantation belonging to Captain Charles Nelson.
Her recollections cover family illnesses, her father's involvement in the war effort, military politics, the shortage of food and supplies, encounters with Confederate and Union troops, the sight of dead soldiers in the aftermath of the Battle of Malvern Hill, daily life at Weston Manor, the family's decision to seek the protection of the Union Army in 1864, and the destruction they encountered upon their return to Hampton later that year.
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1880 Census, Hampton, Elizabeth City, VA.:
John W. Richardson 42 VA
Emma V. 30 VA wife
Ida M. 11 VA dau
William M. 3 VA son
Annie age 0 VA dau
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Emma and John had at least five children:
William M.
Annie J.
Ethel W.
Emma R.
Ida M.
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Reminiscences of Emma Wood Richardson, recalling her life in City Point (Hopewell), Hampton, and Richmond, Virginia.
===
Emma Richardson describes her families experiences during the Civil War and provides a description of her mother, Susan David Hicks Wood, and father, Robert Clement Wood. Richardson's father hauled supplies for the Confederate Army and Emma recounts his experiences and the price of supplies during the War.
She also describes the houses in which her family lived, neighbors, the devastation of the countryside surrounding Richmond, family news, and a meeting with Union general Edward Hinks.
===
There are two booklets, prepared by the Historic Hopewell Foundation in 2001, featuring the Civil War reminiscences of Emma Wood Richardson (b. 1850) of Hampton, Virginia.
One booklet contains a full transcript of Richardson's memoirs.
Second contains excerpts from the memoirs, along with photographs and drawings of locations mentioned therein. Richardson's story follows the family from Hampton to City Point (now part of Hopewell), Richmond, and Weston Manor, an Appomattox River plantation belonging to Captain Charles Nelson.
Her recollections cover family illnesses, her father's involvement in the war effort, military politics, the shortage of food and supplies, encounters with Confederate and Union troops, the sight of dead soldiers in the aftermath of the Battle of Malvern Hill, daily life at Weston Manor, the family's decision to seek the protection of the Union Army in 1864, and the destruction they encountered upon their return to Hampton later that year.
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1880 Census, Hampton, Elizabeth City, VA.:
John W. Richardson 42 VA
Emma V. 30 VA wife
Ida M. 11 VA dau
William M. 3 VA son
Annie age 0 VA dau
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Emma and John had at least five children:
William M.
Annie J.
Ethel W.
Emma R.
Ida M.
===
From the Library of Virginia
===
Reminiscences of Emma Wood Richardson, recalling her life in City Point (Hopewell), Hampton, and Richmond, Virginia.
===
Emma Richardson describes her families experiences during the Civil War and provides a description of her mother, Susan David Hicks Wood, and father, Robert Clement Wood. Richardson's father hauled supplies for the Confederate Army and Emma recounts his experiences and the price of supplies during the War.
She also describes the houses in which her family lived, neighbors, the devastation of the countryside surrounding Richmond, family news, and a meeting with Union general Edward Hinks.
===
There are two booklets, prepared by the Historic Hopewell Foundation in 2001, featuring the Civil War reminiscences of Emma Wood Richardson (b. 1850) of Hampton, Virginia.
One booklet contains a full transcript of Richardson's memoirs.
Second contains excerpts from the memoirs, along with photographs and drawings of locations mentioned therein. Richardson's story follows the family from Hampton to City Point (now part of Hopewell), Richmond, and Weston Manor, an Appomattox River plantation belonging to Captain Charles Nelson.
Her recollections cover family illnesses, her father's involvement in the war effort, military politics, the shortage of food and supplies, encounters with Confederate and Union troops, the sight of dead soldiers in the aftermath of the Battle of Malvern Hill, daily life at Weston Manor, the family's decision to seek the protection of the Union Army in 1864, and the destruction they encountered upon their return to Hampton later that year.
===
1880 Census, Hampton, Elizabeth City, VA.:
John W. Richardson 42 VA
Emma V. 30 VA wife
Ida M. 11 VA dau
William M. 3 VA son
Annie age 0 VA dau
===
Emma and John had at least five children:
William M.
Annie J.
Ethel W.
Emma R.
Ida M.
===
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Reminiscences of Emma Wood Richardson, recalling her life in City Point (Hopewell), Hampton, and Richmond, Virginia.
===
Emma Richardson describes her families experiences during the Civil War and provides a description of her mother, Susan David Hicks Wood, and father, Robert Clement Wood. Richardson's father hauled supplies for the Confederate Army and Emma recounts his experiences and the price of supplies during the War.
She also describes the houses in which her family lived, neighbors, the devastation of the countryside surrounding Richmond, family news, and a meeting with Union general Edward Hinks.
===
There are two booklets, prepared by the Historic Hopewell Foundation in 2001, featuring the Civil War reminiscences of Emma Wood Richardson (b. 1850) of Hampton, Virginia.
One booklet contains a full transcript of Richardson's memoirs.
Second contains excerpts from the memoirs, along with photographs and drawings of locations mentioned therein. Richardson's story follows the family from Hampton to City Point (now part of Hopewell), Richmond, and Weston Manor, an Appomattox River plantation belonging to Captain Charles Nelson.
Her recollections cover family illnesses, her father's involvement in the war effort, military politics, the shortage of food and supplies, encounters with Confederate and Union troops, the sight of dead soldiers in the aftermath of the Battle of Malvern Hill, daily life at Weston Manor, the family's decision to seek the protection of the Union Army in 1864, and the destruction they encountered upon their return to Hampton later that year.
===
1880 Census, Hampton, Elizabeth City, VA.:
John W. Richardson 42 VA
Emma V. 30 VA wife
Ida M. 11 VA dau
William M. 3 VA son
Annie age 0 VA dau
===
Emma and John had at least five children:
William M.
Annie J.
Ethel W.
Emma R.
Ida M.
===
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