#Richmond Light Infantry Blues

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Ephemera Collection

To the Richmond Blues, Key to the City of Providence, Sept. 16th and 17th, 1912

[resoundingamericanechoes]

Blues Armory/6th Street Marketplace - Richmond, Virginia, May 2016: Both the 1910 light infantry armory on Marshall st in the heart of downtown Richmond, and the only remaining portion of the 1985 6th Street Marketplace that was supposed to (and for a few years did) bring people back into this part of the city, share the title of both being part of the same conjoined urban ruin from two different eras. I hope to get into thee buildings sometime soon, and whether or not I do, I’ll post an update on here about this place soon. Have to get this done before this place is gone.

[theamericanparlor]

Dora Allison, Little Miss Bonnie Blue, The Light Of The Confederacy

Photograph shows approximately three- or four-year old girl, Dora Allison, born 1859, wearing mourning ribbons. She was probably the daughter of James W. Allison of Co. C, 25th Virginia Infantry Battalion. As of 1870, Dora Allison was living in the household of David and Jane Moore in Richmond, Virginia, and in 1880 was listed as adopted daughter of J.E. (probably Jane) Moore in the U.S. Census. Dora Allison married Thomas L. Moore in 1885. (Sources: Ancestry.com and American Civil War Research Database).

Title from inscription in original case, now lost, but recorded by Shannon Pritchard and published in Confederate Faces in Color / Shannon Pritchard and Shane Kisner. Richmond, Virginia : Shane Kisner, 2013, page 120.

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Ephemera Collection

Battle Hymns of the Republic, as sung (?) by the Bull Frog Battalion of the Richmond Light Infantry Blues, on the Occasion of the Invasion of New England, Sept. 14-22, 1912.

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Ephemera Collection

R.L.I. Blues, Second Annual, Inter-Company Indoor Track Meet, Blues Armory, Saturday, January 17th, 1914 - 8:15 P.M. Complimentary. Admit One.

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Ephemera Collection

Richmond Light Infantry Blues Battalion. Richmond, Virginia - San Francisco, California. Panama-Pacific Exposition, July 1915.