While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

* Virginia & Truckee Railroad: Information about the historical railroad.

* McAlester, Virginia & Lee, A Field Guide To American Houses 1996 ISBN 0-394-73969-8

William SmallThe nature of the group was to change significantly with the move to Birmingham in 1765 of the Scottish physician William Small, who had been Professor of Natural Philosophy at The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

* 1736 – Patrick Henry, American attorney, planter, and politician, 1st & 6th Governor of Virginia ( d. 1799 )

In the summer of 1980 University of Virginia classmates John Taylor and Kelton Flinn wrote Dungeons of Kesmai, a six player game inspired by Dungeons & Dragons which used Roguelike ASCII graphics.

Industrialist Collis P. Huntington ( 1821 – 1900 ) provided crucial funding to complete the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad ( C & O ) from Richmond, Virginia to the Ohio River in the early 1870s.

Although originally built for general commerce, this C & O rail link to the midwest was soon also being used to transport bituminous coal from the previously isolated coalfields, adjacent to the New River and the Kanawha River in West Virginia.

In 1881, the Peninsula Extension of the C & O was built from Richmond down the Virginia Peninsula to reach a new coal pier on Hampton Roads in Warwick County near the small unincorporated community of Newport News Point.

* 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road ( also known as the Second Battle of Fair Oaks ) ends – Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant withdraw from Fair Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses around Richmond, Virginia.

The Science & Environmental Policy Project ( SEPP ) is a research and advocacy group financed by private contributions based in Arlington, Virginia in the United States.

In 2003 " Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus " was depicted in a mechanical holiday window display at the Lord & Taylor department store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

* 1812 – The Bishop James Madison Society is founded at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.

* The Bishop James Madison Society is founded at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.

* Ye Bare & Ye Cubbe, the first play in English in the American colonies, is performed in Pungoteague, Virginia.

Due to a lack of appreciation, competition venues, and military personnel, almost all military marching bands have disappeared from schools in the United States ; notable exceptions the Fightin ' Texas Aggie Band from Texas A & M University, the Highty-Tighties of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets, and the Cadets of Norwich University Military College of Vermont, the oldest collegiate band in the United States and the nation's first private military academy.

In 1790, John Marshall, a private attorney and a veteran of the Continental Army, represented the board of the College of William and Mary, in litigation that required him to defend that corporation's right to reorganize itself and in the process remove professors, The Rev John Bracken v. The Visitors of Wm & Mary College ( 7 Va. 573 ; 1790 Supreme Court of Virginia ).

* University of Virginia: John C. Calhoun – Timeline, quotes, & contemporaries, via University of Virginia

In 1992, the appointment was increased to a two-year term, and beginning in 1998 the appointments were made from list of nominees presented by the Poetry Society of Virginia ; which was established at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1923.

The Richmond area has many major institutions of higher education, including Virginia Commonwealth University ( public ), University of Richmond ( private ), Virginia Union University ( private ), Virginia College ( private ), Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian School of Christian Education ( private ), and the Baptist Theological Seminary in Richmond ( BTSR — private ).

The city has served as the capital of Nevada since statehood in 1864 and for much of its history was a hub for the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, although the tracks were removed in the 1950s.

The Virginia and Truckee Railroad runs through Mound House in western Lyon County, on its way from Carson City to Virginia City.

The 1869 opening of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad shifted ore processing upstream to Brunswick Canyon, but Dayton continued to serve as a center of commerce and government.

* The Virginia Street Bridge in Reno, Nevada, known for being the place where newly-divorced women coming from the Washoe County Courthouse would toss their wedding rings into the Truckee River.

* The " Genoa " was a 4-4-0 locomotive used on the Virginia and Truckee Railroad

* The " Inyo ", a 4-4-0 steam locomotive built for the Virginia & Truckee Railroad ( V & T # 22 ) in 1875 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, appeared in both the Golden Spike ceremony scene in " Union Pacific " ( 1939 ) and in the 1960s TV series The Wild Wild West.

Baldwin built many 4-4-0 " American " type locomotives, surviving examples of which include the 1872 Countess of Dufferin and 1875's Virginia and Truckee Railroad No. 22 " Inyo ", but it was perhaps best known for the 2-8-2 " Mikado " and 2-8-0 " Consolidation " types.

Built in 1872 for the Virginia and Truckee Railroad

The Virginia & Truckee Railroad's northern terminus is located at Virginia City.

" Darcy Farrow ", a folk song written by Steve Gillette and Tom Campbell, mentions Virginia City and other places and landmarks in the area ( including Yerington, the Carson Valley, and the Truckee River ).

The 1868 Virginia and Truckee Railroad transported ore to the quartz reduction mines along the river.

* " Lyon " for the Virginia and Truckee Railroad

* " Ormsby " for the Virginia and Truckee Railroad

* " Storey " for the Virginia and Truckee Railroad

Ground was broken on the Virginia and Truckee Railroad on February 19, 1869 and eight months thereafter, the most difficult section from Virginia City to Carson City was completed.

* Virginia & Truckee Railroad: Information about the Comstock Railroad.

It had a brief stint on the currently re-constructing Virginia and Truckee Railroad in Virginia City, Nevada.

The Virginia Range is a mountain range nearly entirely in Storey County, Nevada, that is a portion of the drainage divide between the Truckee River ( north ) and the Carson River ( south ).

* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Globe Tavern – Union forces try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad.

Thus, he supported funding to the state to assist the expansion of the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad.

* 1877 – The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 begins in Martinsburg, West Virginia, US, when Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers have their wages cut for the second time in a year.

On April 3, 1865, with Union troops under Ulysses S. Grant poised to capture Richmond, Davis escaped for Danville, Virginia, together with the Confederate Cabinet, leaving on the Richmond and Danville Railroad.

* August 18 – American Civil War – Battle of Globe Tavern: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, forcing the Confederates to use wagons.

Beyond Toledo, the planned route would have used the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad ( 1900 ), Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway, Little Kanawha Railroad, West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railway, Western Maryland Railroad and Philadelphia and Western Railway, but the Panic of 1907 strangled the plans before the Little Kanawha section in West Virginia could be finished.

By that time, railroads were proving a better method of transportation, and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was being built west from Baltimore to Cumberland, mostly along the Potomac River, then by a more direct route than the National Road across the Allegheny Plateau of West Virginia ( then Virginia ) to Wheeling.

* Covington and Ohio Railroad, part of a planned railroad link between eastern Virginia and the Ohio River

* Cavalier ( PRR train ), operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad between New York and Cape Charles, Virginia

Freight trains run into Delaware from Snow Hill on the Worcester Railroad, and the main line ( formerly Pennsylvania Railroad ) from Philadelphia to Cape Charles, Virginia and Norfolk runs through the southeastern corner of the county.

Carney was born simply as " William ," as a slave in Norfolk, Virginia February 29, 1840, but escaped to Massachusetts like his father through the Underground Railroad.

In the 1850s, Big Lick became a stop on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad ( V & T ) which linked Lynchburg with Bristol on the Virginia-Tennessee border.