Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography/Volume 3

Layout 2

 

General Robert E. Lee

ENCYCLOPEDIA

of

VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY

---

UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF

LYON GARDINER TYLER, LL. D.

President of William and Mary College, Williamsburg; Author of "Parties and Patronage

in the United States," "The Cradle of the Republic," "Williamsburg, the Old

Colonial Capital," "England in America," "The Letters and Times of

the Tylers," etc.; Vice-President of the Virginia Historical

Society, Member of the Maryland Historical

Society, and various other societies.

---

VOLUME III

---

NEW YORK
LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
1915

Copyright, 1915
Lewis Historical Publishing Company

.

PREFACE

---

In volumes I. and II., the history of Virginia as set forth in the biographies of its distinguished citizens was brought down approximately to the year 1861. The present volume brings that history down to date. The divisions are as follows: I. The Governors of the State; II. Judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals: III. Under the Confederacy—Department Officers, Members of Congress, and Military and Naval Officers; IV. President of the United States; V. United States Senators; VI. House of Representatives; VII. Prominent Persons.

While it is believed that the list of persons under the first six heads may be deemed substantially correct and on the whole satisfactory, the same remark as was made in the preface to the second volume applies to the last division. The selection may not always have been wise, and some important persons have doubtless been omitted, but it is the best that could be done under the pressure of official work and the time allowed by the publishers. It is proper, however, to add that some names of important living persons were purposely omitted from the third volume because of their appearance in a more extended form in the fourth or fifth volumes prepared directly by the publishers.

The Author.