Chatham and Pittsylvania County, Virginia
and the
Civil War

The Bilharz, Hall, & Co. weapons factory site is located on the east side of Chatham's North Main Street, a short distance north of the Pittsylvania County Courthouse.

A

• An Abbreviated History of Pittsylvania County, by Maud Carter Clement
• Allen, Henry Clay (1844-1925)
  • Men of Mark in Virginia
  • Civil War Service Record
• An Antebellum Tragedy on the Old Richmond and Danville Railroad

B

• Bennett, Col. Coleman D., Kitchen House
  • Photographs
  • Painting by Agnes Tune
• Bilharz, Hall & Co.
  • A Virginia Civil War Trails Site
  • Pittsylvania County's Civil War Gun Factory
  • Chatham's Civil War Carbines Located
  • Virginia Carbines of Danville and Pittsylvania Court House
    • Part 1: Pittsylvania Rifles on Display in Springfield, MA
    • Part 2: Mystery Carbines Prove To Be Chatham Products
  • Bilharz, Hall & Company Weapons: Photographs
  • Civil War Trails Marker Dedicated at Gun Factory
  • Descendants of Bilharz, Hall & Company's Workers Sought
  • Eagle Scout Project Highlights Rifle Factory
  • Two Bilharz, Hall & Company Carbines Bring $80,000
• Breckinridge, Lucy: “I Want to Go to Pittsylvania”
• Buford, Algernon Sidney, in Chatham, Virginia

C

• Capt. John Dooley Documents Pittsylvania/Danville During Surrender Week 1865
• Chatham Greys: Company I, 53rd Virginia Infantry
  • Chatham Greys Roll Book
• Chatham: Virginia's Capital for a Day
• Chester Station Canister Shot "Lands" in Society Museum Display
• Civil War Cannons Believed To Have Been Forged In Pittsylvania
• Civil War Gun Factory, Pittsylvania County's
• Civil War Prisons of Danville, Virginia: "Truly Horrible"
• Coles, Capt. Isaac: Pittsylvania's Own Mark Twain
• Confederate Cannons, Pittsylvania's Missing
• Confederate Monument Rededicated
• Confederate Veterans' Reunion, 1910

D

• Danville's Civil War Prisons: "Truly Horrible"
• Dooley, Capt. John, Documents Pittsylvania/Danville During Surrender Week 1865

F

• Fireside Chat(ham): the Martin-Tucker House
• Furguson Papers at UNC Contain Chatham Greys Roll Book

G

• General Longstreet's Visit to Pittsylvania County

H

• Hard Choices on the Home Front: Pittsylvania's Care for Indigent Families of Civil War Soldiers
• Hell-and-High-Water Hill: Oak Hall
• Highway Markers in Pittsylvania County
  • Rawley White Martin Residence
• Hill May Hold Key to Civil War's Dying Days
• Hotchkiss, Jed, Connection: Pittsylvania Minerals

L

• Lee, Robert E., Letters by
  • Robert E. Lee's Letter to His Son G.W.Custis Lee, April 5, 1852
  • Robert E. Lee's Letters Mentioning Bishop Francis Whittle, May 1869
• Letter by Jefferson Davis' Widow Poses Real Mystery

M

• Magnolia Manor
  • Memorable Magnolia Manor
  • Bennett Kitchen House: Letitia Tyler Semple's Civil War Refuge
• Mansfield
  • Chatham's Oldest
• Martin, Dr. Rawley (Lt. Col., C. S. A.)
  • Bust
  • Monument
  • Uniform
  • Obituary
  • Virginia Highway Marker: Rawley White Martin Residence
• Martin-Tucker House: Fireside Chat(ham)
• Memories of the Battle of Gettysburg and Point Lookout Prison
• Merchant, Mrs. W. C. N., of Chatham, Helped Prompt WWI Hospital Funding
• Miller, April: Author
  • Mrs. Miller Receives Jefferson Davis Medal for Preserving Confederate Heritage
  • Unique Cemetery Markers Honor Revolutionary, Civil War Soldiers
  • Memorial Markers Honor Confederate Ancestors
• Millner, Mysterious J. K., Imprisoned in New York, 1861

O

• Oakes, James Lafayette (1836-1920)
  • Chester Station Canister Shot "Lands" in Society Museum Display
  • Pension Application
  • Photo Album
• Oak Hall
  • Hell-and-High-Water Hill
  • Oak Hall's Dependencies

P

• Pittsylvania County, An Abbreviated History of, by Maud Carter Clement
• Pittsylvania County Before the Civil War
• Pittsylvania County War Dead
  • Introduction
  • Civil War
• Pittsylvania County's Civil War Gun Factory
• Pittsylvania Minerals: the Jed Hotchkiss Connection
• Pittsylvania's Missing Confederate Cannons
• Pittsylvania's Puzzling Confederate Supply Problem: Were the Chatham Greys Ill-Equipped or Ill-Treated?

R

• Richmond and Danville Railroad, An Antebellum Tragedy on the Old
• Roster of Company G, 53rd Virginia Infantry Regiment

S

• Secession in Pittsylvania County: A Revolution That Failed
• Semple, Letitia Tyler
  • President Tyler's Daughter
  • Letitia Tyler Semple's Wartime Retreat
• Sergeant's Tomahawk Mill, The
• Sims, William Edward (1842-1891)
  • Summary of Official (Confederate) Military Records of William E. Sims

T

• "Truly Horrible" Danville Civil War Prisons

U

• Union Prisoner's Memoir Recalls Rail Ride To Danville
• Union Soldiers Recall Pittsylvania and Danville
• Unique Cemetery Markers Honor Revolutionary, Civil War Soldiers

V

• Virginia Carbines of Danville and Pittsylvania Court House
  • Part 1: Pittsylvania Rifles on Display in Springfield, MA
  • Part 2: Mystery Carbines Prove To Be Chatham Products
• Virginia Highway Markers in Pittsylvania County
  • Rawley White Martin Residence

W

• War Dead, Pittsylvania County
  • Introduction
  • Civil War
• Watson Family of Chatham, Virginia
  • Fletcher Bangs Watson (1841-1917)
  • Wilbur Fisk Watson (1839-1863)
• Whitehead, John Richard and Sallie Hunt Graves
  • Whitehead, John Richard (1844-1902)
• Whittle, Bishop Francis McNeece (1823-1902)
  • Letters of Robert E. Lee Mentioning Bishop Francis Whittle
• Whittle, James Murray (1806-1891)
• Whittle, Lt. Col. Powhatan Bolling, C. S. A.
  • A Confederate Officer's Request: Letter from Powhatan B. Whittle to James M. Whittle
• Whittle, Capt. William Conway, C. S. N. (1805-1878)
• Willow Del Commissary: Pittsylvania's Secret Confederate Supply Base
• World War I Hospital Funding, Mrs. W. C. N. Merchant of Chatham Helped Prompt

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