Lynchburg's Greatest Gift to Richmond: Douglas Southall Freeman; 1981
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- Identifier
- MS1133-0210
- Title
- Lynchburg's Greatest Gift to Richmond: Douglas Southall Freeman; 1981
- Description
- Born in 1886 on 416 Main Street (beside today’s Texas Inn), Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman’s family moved to Richmond when he was five-years-old. Dean Turner explains why Freeman was one of the most brilliant men ever born in Lynchburg. Freeman received two Pulitzer Prizes -- one for his four-volume biography of Robert E. Lee and a second for his six-volume account of the life of George Washington.
- Date
- 26 February 1981
- Creator
- Turner, John M.
- topic
- talk
- lecture
- SPHEX Club
- Douglas Southall Freeman
- Freeman
- 1981
- Federal Reserve Bank
- Senator Carder Glass
- Richmond
- Lynchburg
- Arthur Ashe
- Walter Johnson
- tennis
- Confederate history
- Civil War
- Robert E. Lee
- biographies
- military strategy
- Richmond College
- journalism
- newspaper editor
- Columbia University
- Washington biography
- Lee’s Lieutenants
- Pulitzer Prize
- Type
- Text
- Genre
- lectures
- Digital Format
- application/pdf
- Language
- English
- Repository
- George M. Jones Library Association
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Rights Holder
- John M. Turner
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