National Civil War Museum, teach your child a neo-Confederate view of history

One of the books I purchased at the National Civil War Museum is, "Who Was Robert E. Lee?" It is by Bonnie Bader with a cover illustration by Nancy Harrison. The interior illustrations are by John O'Brian. The book is published by Grossett & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Books and it meant to children.

Slavery is mentioned. There is a section on Robert E. Lee's views on slavery. We learn that:

"Some historians say that Robert E. Lee was against slavery." And we are told that, "... other historians say that Robert E. Lee did not object to slavery."

The section concludes with, "Robert thought that the only one to decide to free the slaves should be god." An interesting spin on this letter by Lee.

Of course Lee made it abundantly clear that he thought slavery was best for African Americans. In an 1865 letter by Lee to Andrew Hunter Lee writes:

“Considering the relation of master and slave, controlled by humane laws and influenced by Christianity and an enlightened public sentiment, as the best that can exist between the white and black races while intermingled as at present in this country, I would depreciate any sudden disturbance of that relation unless it be necessary to avert a greater calamity to both.”

There was a slave hunt where African Americans in Pennsylvania were rounded up and taken as slaves.

http://www.post-gazette.com/news/state/2013/06/30/Confederates-slave-hunt-in-North-a-military-disgrace/stories/201306300221?pgpageversion=pgevoke

Finally the book discusses Lee being a university president after the Civil War but not his hostility to African Americans as documented by Robert E. Lee Jr., testimony to the congressional committee on Reconstruction, and Lee's infamous White Sulphur Manifesto.

This book is the equivalent of Holocaust denial.

For information about what Robert E. Lee said and believed you can go to this website and use the search term "Robert." http://www.confederatepastpresent.org

This museum in promoting this book commits an outrage against the humanity of African Americans. It is no wonder that it proves to be a challenge in America to have people recognize truly that Black lives matter.


http://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/07/books/lee-without-tears.html

Kevin Levin reveals his true self

Kevin Levin wrote a blog posting titled, "The Lost Cause is not fake history," and the link to the post is: 

http://cwmemory.com/2016/12/30/the-lost-cause-is-not-fake-history/

His posting was in response to this CNN article and video. http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/28/us/lost-cause-trump/index.html

Levin is not happy over this CNN article. Levin writes:

No, the Lost Cause is not an example of fake history. Postwar accounts of loyal slaves and benevolent slaveowners were quite consistent with pre-war accounts. The Lost Cause was not a collective act of self deception or even primarily an attempt to deceive others. It was an organic process of reflection and memory that directly engaged the most pressing challenges of the immediate postwar period, including defeat, emancipation, black mobility and black political action to name just a few.

He followed up with this blog posting "to clarify" what he was trying to say.

http://cwmemory.com/2016/12/31/why-the-lost-cause-is-not-fake-history/

The blog postings really reveal who Levin is.

The Lost Cause depiction of slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction was not confined to a few Confederate leaders. The Lost Cause was promoted by the United Confederate Veterans, United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

These are the comments in a letter by Confederate John S. Mosby, the famous "Gray Ghost," of the Civil War. He is "disgusted" by the Lost Cause lies about the Civil War and the Confederacy. In a letter he wrote to a friend in June 4, 1907 he comments about the Lost Cause lies.

I wrote you about my disgust at reading the Reunion speeches: It has since been increased by reading Christians report. I am certainly glad I wasn’t there. According to Christian the Virginia people were the abolitionists & the Northern people were pro-slavery. He says slavery was “a patriarchal” institution – So were polygamy & circumcision. Ask Hugh if he has been circumcised. Christian quotes what the Old Virginians – said against slavery. True; but why didn’t he quote what the modern Virginians said in favor of it – Mason, Hunter, Wise &c. Why didn’t he state that a Virginia Senator (Mason) was the author of the Fugitive Slave law – & why didn’t he quote The Virginia Code (1860) that made it a crime to speak against slavery, or to teach a negro to read the Lord’s prayer. Now while I think as badly of slavery as Horace Greeley did I am not ashamed that my family were slaveholders. It was our inheritance – Neither am I ashamed that my ancestors were pirates & cattle thieves. People must be judged by the standard of their own age. If it was right to own slaves as property it was right to fight for it. The South went to war on account of Slavery. South Carolina went to war – as she said in her Secession proclamation – because slavery wd. not be secure under Lincoln. South Carolina ought to know what was the cause for her seceding. . . . I am not ashamed of having fought on the side of slavery – a soldier fights for his country – right or wrong – he is not responsible for the political merits of the cause he fights in. The South was my country.

This is the link to the source.
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/reconstruction/resources/former-confederate-officer-slavery-and-civil-war-1907

Of course Mosby has his own rationalizations, but he wasn't going to fill himself with stuff and nonsense that the Civil War wasn't about slavery.

Frederick Douglas denounced the Lost Cause as deception and so did W.E.B. Dubois.

http://blogs.dickinson.edu/hist-288pinsker/files/2012/01/Blight-article.pdf

https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/web-dubois-reflects-purpose-history

Kevin Levin is of the Civil War Tables era of Civil War historiography. He also very well might become the new Eugene Genovese of Civil War history. As the Civil War Round Table Civil War history passes away I think we will see more postings like this from Levin.

Questions for H.K. Edgerton. Hopefully he will answer them if he comes to Richmond UPDATED.

H.K. Edgerton is an African American member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) who goes about defending the Confederacy. I have for him the following question which I hope to present to him in Richmond. UPDATE: See the two questions added at the end.

QUESTIONS FOR H.K. EDGERTON

1.       Jefferson Davis, a Confederate hero to the Sons of Confederate Veterans in his history “The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government,” published in 1881 by D. Appleton & Co., New York, in Vol. 2 pp. 600, in his condemnation of the Emancipation Proclamation, Jefferson Davis in his book reprints his proclamation of January 1863:

“A proclamation, dated on January 1, 1863, signed and issued by the President of the United States, orders and declares all slaves within ten of the States of the Confederacy to be free, except as are found in certain districts now occupied in part by the armed forces of the enemy. We may well leave it to the instinct of that common humanity, which a beneficent Creator has implanted in the breasts of our fellow-men of all countries, to pass judgment on a measure by which several millions of human beings of an inferior race -- peaceful, contented laborers in their sphere -- are doomed to extermination, while at the same time they are encouraged to a general assassination of their masters by the insidious recommendation "to abstain from violence, unless in necessary self-defense."

QUESTION: Do you think African Americans are an inferior race or would be contented with slavery?

2.      Jefferson Davis, in his history, “The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government,” published in 1881 by D. Appleton & Co., New York, in Vol. 2 pp. 161, in anger at Abraham Lincoln's joy at the enlistment of African Americans into the U.S. Army Davis states:

Let the reader pause for a moment and look calmly at the facts presented in this statement. The forefathers of these negro soldiers were gathered from the torrid plains and malarial swamps of inhospitable Africa. Generally they were born the slaves of barbarian masters, untaught in all the useful arts and occupations, reared in heathen darkness, they were transferred to shores enlightened by the rays of Christianity. There, put to servitude, they were trained in the gentle arts of peace and order and civilization; they increased from a few unprofitable savages to millions of efficient Christian laborers. Their servile instincts rendered them contented with their lot, and their patient toil blessed the land of their abode with unmeasured riches.

QUESTION: Do you think African Americans have servile instincts?

3.      Robert E. Lee, a Confederate hero to the Sons of Confederate Veterans, in a letter to Andrew Hunter in Jan. 11, 1865 writes the following.

DEAR SIR: I have received your letter of the 7th inst., and, without confining myself to the order of your interrogatories, will endeavor to answer them by a statement of my views on the subject. I shall be most happy if I can contribute to the solution of a question in which I feel an interest commensurate with my desire for the happiness of our people. Considering the relation of master and slavery, controlled by humane laws and influenced by Christianity and an enlightened public sentiment, as the best that can exist between the white and black races while intermingled as at present in this country, I would deprecate any sudden disturbance of that relation unless it be necessary to avert a greater calamity to both. I should therefore prefer to rely upon our white population to preserve the ratio between our forces and those of the enemy which experience has shown to be safe. But in view of the preparations of our enemies it is our duty to provide for continued war, and not for a battle or campaign, and I fear that we cannot accomplish this without overtaxing the capacity of our white population. Should the war continue under existing circumstances, the enemy may in course of time penetrate our country and get access to a large part of our negro population. It is his avowed policy to convert the able-bodied men among them into soldiers, and to emancipate all. [ The letter is from “Memoranda on the Civil War,” pages 600-601, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Vol. 36 No. 4, August 1888. Also, “The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies,” (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1880–1901), series 4, vol. 3, 1012–1013.]

QUESTION: Do you think that any form of slavery could be the best relation that can exist between whites and African Americans?

4.      Robert E. Lee, in testimony before the Reconstruction Committee of Congress testified that he thought Virginia would be better off if Virginia could get rid of all the African Americans in the state?  [“Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction,” of congress, pages 135-136, testimony of Robert E. Lee before the Congressional Joint Committee on Reconstruction in response to questions by Mr. Blow, on February 17, 1866.]

QUESTION: Do you think Virginia would be better off without African Americans?

5. In the Sept./Oct. 2003 Southern Mercury, a publication of an educational PAC of the Sons of Confederate Veterans,  Frank Conner has an white supremacist article “Where We Stand Now: And How We Got Here.” In it, African Americans are asserted to have low IQs, a fact which Conner asserts has been covered up by a liberal conspiracy. In a section of his article titled, “Liberals Create a False Public Image of the Blacks,” Conner writes:

Previously, anthropologists had routinely recorded the notable differences in IQ among the races; but at Columbia, a liberal cultural anthropologist named Franz Boas now changed all of that. He decreed that there were no differences in IQ among the races, and the only biological differences between the blacks and white were of superficial nature. The liberals swiftly made it academically suicidal to challenge Boas’ flat assertion. Meanwhile, the liberals in the media heaped special praise upon black athletes, musicians, singers, and writers – and treated them as typical of the black race. The liberals were creating a false image of the blacks in America as a highly competent people who were being held back by the prejudiced white southerners. [Conner, Frank, “Where We Stand Now: And How We Got Here,” Southern Mercury, Vol. 1 No. 2, pages 10-14, quote on page 12.]

QUESTIONS: Do you think African Americans have lower intelligence that whites? Why was Frank Conner allowed to write this for Southern Mercury rather than being expelled from the Sons of Confederate Veterans?

6. QUESTION: Is Robert E. Lee your hero?

7. QUESTION: Is Jefferson Davis your hero? 

Letter to the Historic Richmond Foundation

The Historic Richmond Foundation unfortunately lent their Monumental Church to the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) in 2014. The Richmond Free Press ran an article on the story.

http://richmondfreepress.com/news/2014/nov/07/confederates-hold-service-downtown-church/

This is my certified letter in 2015 asking them not to lend the church to the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV). I also discuss their lending their facilities to the UDC and the irresponsibility of doing so.

I copied it extensively using proof of mailing.. I think that they won't lend their facilities to the SCV for the reason is that it is bad publicity.

     January 26, 2015

                                                                   Edward H. Sebesta

                                                                   edwardsebesta@gmail.com

Mary Jane Massad Hogue

Executive Director

Historic Richmond Foundation

4 E. Main Street, Suite 1-C

Richmond, VA 23219

Dear Ms. Hogue:

Please find enclosed a copy of the Richmond Free Press article about your allowing the neo-Confederate group, the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), to Monumental Church at their annual national convention in 2014 and your responses. [Matthews, Joey, “Confederates to hold service at Downtown church,” Richmond Free Press, Vol. 23, No. 45, Nov. 6-8, 2014, pages A1, A14.] It is available online at:

http://richmondfreepress.com/news/2014/nov/07/confederates-hold-service-downtown-church/

Also, please find enclosed an article published in Black Commentator about the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) which I think to any reasonable person documents their racism and extremism. It is also available online at:

http://www.blackcommentator.com/526/526_confederacy_sebesta_guest_share.html

I am an investigative researcher regarding the neo-Confederate movement. I have had two books published by university presses and articles in peer-reviewed academic journals. I enclose a copy of my online curriculum vitae which is also online at http://templeofdemocracy.com/curriculum-vitae.html. Additionally there have been other articles published at Black Commentator also accessible from my online curriculum vitae.

In addition to my research I am also an activist. My recent concern is the enabling of neo-Confederate organizations by mainstream institutions. In 2013 I got major corporations to stop donating to the SCV through the We Care website. After learning that they were supporting the SCV major corporations started contacting We Care and in a matter of days We Care dropped the SCV. You can read about this campaign at Black Commentator at this URL:

http://www.blackcommentator2.com/527_cover_scv_donation_loss_sebesta_guest.html

After getting major corporations to stop supporting neo-Confederate groups I have been writing churches asking them not to enable neo-Confederate groups. It hasn’t been entirely unsuccessful so far, but I have found that the temples of Mammon were much more willing than the churches of Christ not to support neo-Confederate organizations.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans are planning to have their 2015 national convention in Richmond, Virginia.  You can read about it at this website: http://www.jebstuartcamp.org/jebstuartcamp.org/2015reunion/.

I am writing you to make two requests:

1)   Do not allow the Sons of Confederate Veterans to use any of your facilities for their 2015 national convention or for any other activity either now or in the future.

2)   Do not allow any other neo-Confederate organization, including the United Daughters of the Confederacy, to use your facilities for their activities either now or in the future.

The United Daughters of the Confederacy has a lengthy history of supporting white supremacy going back to the early 20th century shortly after they had finished organizing. You can see many primary historical documents regarding their racial attitudes at www.confederatepastpresent.org and use the search term “daughters.”

However, I think documentation shows that these racial attitudes are not confined to the past. This is an organization that currently runs a Red Shirt Shrine to glorify a violent white supremacist group in 19th century South Carolina and of which they are proud of as documented in the June/July 2001 UDC Magazine article, pages 23, 24, and the cover of their magazine. In an article in the Dec. 2012 UDC Magazine, pages 11-14, is an appalling racist article in which the infamous post-Civil War Black Codes of the former Confederate states are defended, African American men are represented as having been potential rapists, the 14th Amendment to the Constitution is argued to be misguided, freed African Americans are asserted to have been incompetent to be citizens. The article asserts, “Newly liberated Negroes were not prepared for their freedom…” These are but two contemporary examples of the UDC’s attitudes towards race. Documentation enclosed.

In allowing neo-Confederate groups you make yourself an enabler of their agenda which in regarding race is clearly documented by their own record.

Another question raised by your allowing the UDC to use Monumental Church in 2014 is whether the Historic Richmond Foundation’s purpose is to construct a racialized landscape, or more precisely a white racial landscape.

The question is whether your efforts serve to construct Richmond, Virginia as a Confederate theme park, a Confederate capitol of the imagination, or otherwise stated a sacred place of a metaphysical Confederacy with your buildings are points of pilgrimage by neo-Confederates and others would are perhaps “Gone With the Wind,” who dream of the Confederacy. It doesn’t really matter whether the Historic Richmond Foundation does this on purpose, ignorance or with reckless indifference.

In the August 2014 issue of UDC Magazine, page 19 there is the following section on the use of Monumental Church for their national convention in Richmond (documentation enclosed):

Newly-restored Monumental Church, designed by Robert Mills and opened in 1814, almost pre-dates Richmond’s founding. Newly restored to its original appearance, this was the church of Chief Justice Marshall. Many events of Confederate history passed its doors during the War years. [Bold face added.]

As you can see the UDC saw the use of this church as an opportunity to imagine the Confederacy. You did allow the work of the Historic Richmond Foundation to be used in the imagining of Richmond as the capitol of the Confederacy, to be a Confederate theme park, a Confederate fantasyland. I think that it would be obvious that they would do this, it is not like their purpose is secret. Their purpose is clearly in their name.

Jonathan Leib in his chapter “The Witting Autobiography of Richmond Virginia: Arthur Ashe, the Civil War, and Monument Avenue’s Racialized Landscape,” in the book, points out that:

As a former capital of the Confederate States of America, Richmond’s landscape has the densest concentration of memorials to the Confederacy of any large Southern city, ranging from a sixty-foot-tall monument to Robert E. Lee to a downtown street named after his horse Traveller. [From page 188, Chapter 10, “Landscape and Race in the United States,” edited by Richard H. Schein, publisher Routledge, 2006 (New York)]

The chapter discusses how the landscape through monuments and other efforts worked to construct the Richmond landscape as a white landscape and support values of white supremacy and how the controversy over the Arthur Ashe monument made this explicit and obvious.

An organization which hoped to contribute to a modern American city, the type of city which strives to value all members of society regardless of race and to be an inclusive multi-racial democracy, would certainly not support neo-Confederate groups or identifying with the pro-slavery and pro-white supremacist Confederacy.

Any restoration work in such a Confederate saturated landscape as is Richmond’s would seem to require care by any organization concerned with not perpetuating a white landscape. Yet your comments in the Richmond Free Press article reveal a total indifference to the issues of landscape and race and an arrogant refusal to recognize that you are aiding neo-Confederates and a racial agenda.

The president of the Historic Richmond Foundation, Andrew K. Clark, is a donor to the Museum of the Confederacy. This raises the question as to whether the Historic Richmond Foundation really has any real concerns not to embrace Richmond’s Confederate past as an ideal.  

In particular I wish point out one of your statements. “I don’t know much about their organization,” in reference to the United Daughters of the Confederacy. They have a substantial building as their national headquarters in Richmond, Virginia. As I stated earlier, their purpose is clearly stated in their name, United Daughters of the Confederacy, they exist to honor an attempt to form a state to defend slavery from emancipation and to preserve white supremacy.

If the Historic Richmond Foundation is irresponsible regarding race and the landscape and neo-Confederate groups, then I think that it is obvious that the Historic Richmond Foundation works towards ill for the city of Richmond and works to restore more than buildings from the past, but also racial attitudes form the past.

Further for those who choose to support the Historic Richmond Foundation if the Foundation’s practice continues to preserve racial attitudes from the past and enable neo-Confederate groups they reveal their real racial attitudes and are pernicious undermining civil rights. Businesses who support the Historical Richmond Foundation, when the foundation practice is such, certainly bring into question any personnel policies they have for the work place regarding non-discrimination.

I ask you to avoid preserving past racial attitudes when you preserve buildings and to not support neo-Confederate groups by allowing them the use of your facilities for their activities.

                                                          Sincerely Yours,

                                                          Edward H. Sebesta

[NOTE: I sent copies of this letter to the staff of the Historic Richmond Foundation, NOT the staff of the Museum of the Confederacy as indicated in this CC. See following table.] Cc: This letter was copied to the staff of the Museum of the Confederacy; the trustees of the Historic Richmond Foundation; the President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer and Immediate Past-President of the Historic Richmond Foundation, the Junior Board of the Historic Richmond Foundation; the Board of Advisors of the Historic Richmond Foundation; Active Members of the Council of Historic Richmond; Sustaining Members of the Council of Historic Richmond; Mayor of Richmond; Richmond City Council; corporate donors for the restoration of the Monumental Church. The detailed list follows and will be sent in the original letter to the Executive Director of the Historic Richmond Foundation, however, those who have received copies are referred to www.templeofdemocracy.com in the interest of conserving paper where the entire letter will be online.

No.	Name	Title	Affiliation	Address
1	Mary Jane Massad Hogue	Executive Director, Sustaining Member Council of Historic Richmond	Historic Richmond Foundation	Historic Richmond Foundation, 4 E. Main Street, Suite 1-C, Richmond, VA 23219
2	Andrew K. Clark	President	LeClairRyan	LeClairRyan, Riverfront Plaza, East Tower, 951 East Byrd Street, Eighth Floor, Richmond, VA 23219
3	Coleen A. Butler Rodriquez	First Vice-President	Community Volunteer	Historic Richmond Foundation, 4 E. Main Street, Suite 1-C, Richmond, VA 23219
4	David I. Meyers	Secretary	Troutman Sanders	Troutman Sanders, Troutman Sanders Bldg., 1001 Haxall Point, Richmond, VA 23219
5	Daniel P. Healy	CPA, Treasurer	Manager and Partner at the Guggenheim Partners Genworth Financials	Genworth Financial Inc., 6620 West Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23230
6	Hunter A. Applewhite	Trustee	President Dominion Foundation	Dominion Foundation, 120 Tredegar St., Richmond, VA 23219
7	G. William Beale	Trustee	Union Market Bank	Union Market Bank, 1051 East Cary St., Suite 1200, Richmond, VA 23219
8	Michael J. Bogese, Jr.	Trustee	The Bogese Companies	The Bogese Companies, 113 South 12th Street, Richmond, VA 23219
9	Robert E. Comet	Trustee	BCWH Architects	BCWH Architects, 1840 West Broad St., Suite 400, Richmond, VA 23220
10	Tracy Scott Doherty	Trustee	MeadWestvaco	501 South 5th St., Richmond, VA 23219-0501
11	Betty M. Fahed	Trustee	Wills Financial Group	Wills Financial Group Inc., P.O. Box 18338, Richmond, VA 23226
12	Susan S. Fisher	Trustee	Long & Foster	Long & Foster Companies, 14501 George Carter Way, Chantilly, VA, 20151.
13	Todd R. Flowers	Trustee, Member Junior Board of Historic Richmond	Dominion Resources	Dominion Resources, 120 Tredegar St., Richmond, VA 23219
14	Roy B. Goodman	Trustee	Luck Stone Corporation	Luck Stone Corporation, P.O. Box 29682, Richmond, VA 23242
15	Mark A. Herzog	Trustee	Health Diagnostic Laboratory Inc.	Mark A. Herzog, 737 N. 5th Street, Suite 103, Richmond, VA 23219
16	C.N. Jenkins, Jr.	Trustee	Virginia Circuit Court	400 North Ninth Street, John Marshall Courts Bldg., Richmond, VA 23219
17	Kathy Ashby Merry	Trustee	The Harmonia Group	The Harmonia Group, 2020 Kraft Drive, Blacksburg, VA 24060
18	Robert S. Mills	Trustee	Commonwealth Architects	101 Shockoe Slip, 3rd Floor, Richmond, VA 23219
19	Gregory H. Ray	Trustee	Altria	Altria, 6601 West Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23230
20	Carol L. Robbins	Trustee	Suntrust	SunTrust Bank, P.O. Box 85024, Richmond, VA 23285-5024
21	R. Scott Ukrop	Trustee	3north	201 West 7th Street, Richmond, VA 23224
22	Robert A. Vallejo	Trustee	PricewaterhouseCoopers	PricewaterhouseCoopers 1021 E Cary St Richmond, VA 23219
23	Harold J. Williams III	Trustee	Dickinson Williams & Co.	1209 East Cary Street, Richmond, VA 23219
24	Steven R. William	Immediate Past President	McGuire Woods	McGuireWoods, One James Center, 901 Est Cary Street, Richmond, VA 23219-4030
25	Elise H. Wright	Life Trustee	Curator Valentine Richmond History Center	1015 East Clay Street, Richmond, VA 23219
26	Jane H. Armfield	Member Board of Advisors	Community Volunteer	Historic Richmond Foundation, 4 E. Main Street, Suite 1-C, Richmond, VA 23219
27	Jonathan Bliley	Member Board of Advisors	Williams Mullen	Williams Mullen Center, 200 South 10th St., Suite 1600, Richmond, VA 23219
28	Nancy N. Cheely	Member Board of Advisors, Sustaining Council Member Council of Historic Richmond	Joyner Fine Properties	2727 Enterprise Pkwy,  Richmond VA 23294
29	Lilliboo Rawles Cronly	Member Board of Advisors	Community Volunteer	Historic Richmond Foundation, 4 E. Main Street, Suite 1-C, Richmond, VA 23219
30	Karen S. Emroch	Member Board of Advisors, Sustaining Council Member Council of Historic Richmond	Community Volunteer	Historic Richmond Foundation, 4 E. Main Street, Suite 1-C, Richmond, VA 23219
31	Thomas E. Fahed	Member Board of Advisors	Realtor Small and Associates	5413 Patterson Avenue, Suite 200; Richmond, VA 23226
32	John Owen Gwathmey	Member Board of Advisors	Troutman Sanders	Troutman Sanders, Troutman Sanders Bldg., 1001 Haxall Point, Richmond, VA 23219
33	Douglas J. Hanson	Member Board of Advisors	Community Volunteer	Historic Richmond Foundation, 4 E. Main Street, Suite 1-C, Richmond, VA 23219
34	Kenneth D. McArthur, Jr.	Member Board of Advisors	DurretteCrump	1111 East Main Street #16, Richmond, VA 23219
35	Alice Reed McGuire	Member Board of Advisors	Community Volunteer	Historic Richmond Foundation, 4 E. Main Street, Suite 1-C, Richmond, VA 23219
36	Robert W. Miller, Jr.	Member Board of Advisors	Miller & Associates	116 East Franklin Street #103a, Richmond, VA 23219
37	Kevin B. Osborne	Member Board of Advisors	Altria	Altria, 6601 West Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23230
38	Burt Pinnock	Member Board of Advisors	BAM Architects	101 South 15th Street #200, Richmond, VA 23219
39	J. Sargeant Reynolds, Jr.	Member Board of Advisors	Reynolds Development	6641 West Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23230
40	Mary Harding Sadler	Member Board of Advisors	Sadler & Whitehead	726 West 33rd Street, Richmond, VA 23225
41	Elizabeth Carrington Shuff	Member Board of Advisors, Sustaining Council Member Council of Historic Richmond	Community Volunteer	Historic Richmond Foundation, 4 E. Main Street, Suite 1-C, Richmond, VA 23219
42	William S. Tate	Member Board of Advisors	Attorney	2100 East Cary Street, Richmond, VA 23223
43	Lynn C. Purdy	Member Board of Advisors, Sustaining Council Member Council of Historic Richmond		Historic Richmond Foundation, 4 E. Main Street, Suite 1-C, Richmond, VA 23219
44	Barbara B. Ukrop	Member Board of Advisors	Community Volunteer	Historic Richmond Foundation, 4 E. Main Street, Suite 1-C, Richmond, VA 23219
45	Harry J. Warthen, III	Member Board of Advisors	Hunton & Williams, LLP	951 East Byrd Street Richmond, VA 23219
46	Martha A. Warthen	Member Board of Advisors	Hunton & Williams, LLP	951 East Byrd Street Richmond, VA 23219
47	Catharine Whitham	Member Board of Advisors	Community Volunteer	Historic Richmond Foundation, 4 E. Main Street, Suite 1-C, Richmond, VA 23219
48	Lorna Wyckoff	Member Board of Advisors	Community Volunteer	Historic Richmond Foundation, 4 E. Main Street, Suite 1-C, Richmond, VA 23219
49	James W. Klaus	Additional Board Member	Children's Wear Digest, Inc.	3607 Mayland Court, Richmond, VA 23233
50	Paige C. Anderson	Secretary, Junior Board of Historic Richmond	Hunton & Williams, LLP	951 East Byrd Street Richmond, VA 23219
51	Ms. Taylor R. Boyle	Treasurer, Junior Board of Historic Richmond	MeadWestvaco	501 South 5th St., Richmond, VA 23219-0501
52	Zachary D. Cohen	Junior Board Member of Historic Richmond	ThompsonMcMullen	100 Shockoe Slip, Richmond, VA 23219
53	Charles A. Coulomb	Junior Board Member of Historic Richmond	Virginia Holocaust Museum	2000 East Cary Street, Richmond, VA 23223
54	Trevor S. Cox	President Elect, Junior Board of Historic Richmond	Hunton & Williams, LLP	951 East Byrd Street Richmond, VA 23219
55	Franklin Cragle	Junior Board Member of Historic Richmond	Hirschler Fleischer	Post Office Box 500, Richmond, VA 23218-0500
56	Anna S. Curran	Junior Board Member of Historic Richmond		Historic Richmond Foundation, 4 E. Main Street, Suite 1-C, Richmond, VA 23219
57	Nancy Hull Davidson	Junior Board Member of Historic Richmond		Historic Richmond Foundation, 4 E. Main Street, Suite 1-C, Richmond, VA 23219
58	Danielle Dick	Junior Board Member of Historic Richmond	Virginia Commonweath University	Department of Psychology, 806 West Franklin St., P.O. Box 842018, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284-2018
59	Kate Fraser-Orr	Co-Special Events Chair, Junior Board Member of Historic Richmond	Retail Merchants Association	5101 Monument Avenue, Richmond, VA 23230
60	Juellisa Gadd	Junior Board Member of Historic Richmond	VCU Massey Cancer Center	Historic Richmond Foundation, 4 E. Main Street, Suite 1-C, Richmond, VA 23219
61	David S. Galeski	Co-Special Events Chair Junior Board Member of Historic Richmond		Historic Richmond Foundation, 4 E. Main Street, Suite 1-C, Richmond, VA 23219
62	Meghan Gehr Hubbard	Junior Board Member of Historic Richmond	McGuire Woods	McGuireWoods, One James Center, 901 Est Cary Street, Richmond, VA 23219-4030
63	Chelsea Jeffries	Junior Board Member of Historic Richmond	Chesterfield County	Historic Richmond Foundation, 4 E. Main Street, Suite 1-C, Richmond, VA 23219
64	Elizabeth Kennan	Co-Membership Chair Junior Board of Historic Richmond	Capitol One	Historic Richmond Foundation, 4 E. Main Street, Suite 1-C, Richmond, VA 23219
65	Rebecca R. Lupesco	Junior Board Member of Historic Richmond	Release The Hounds	315 West Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23220
66	Katharine F. McDonald	Junior Board Member of Historic Richmond	American Red Cross	Historic Richmond Foundation, 4 E. Main Street, Suite 1-C, Richmond, VA 23219
67	Zachary Means	Junior Board Member of Historic Richmond	Divaris Real Estate	1111 East Main Street #801, Richmond, VA 23219
68	Keith Murphy	Junior Board Member of Historic Richmond	3north	201 West 7th Street, Richmond, VA 23224
69	Ronald A. Page, Jr.	Junior Board Member of Historic Richmond		Historic Richmond Foundation, 4 E. Main Street, Suite 1-C, Richmond, VA 23219
70	Michael Phillips	President, Junior Board of Historic Richmond	Virginia Clean Cities	Historic Richmond Foundation, 4 E. Main Street, Suite 1-C, Richmond, VA 23219
71	Kristin P. Richardson	Immediate Past President, Junior Board Member of Historic Richmond	Williams Mullen	Williams Mullen Center, 200 South 10th St., Suite 1600, Richmond, VA 23219
72	Leslie A. Rudzinski	Junior Board Member of Historic Richmond	Kaplan & Frank, PLC	P.O. Box 2470, Richmond, VA 23224
73	Adam Trusner	Co-Membership Chair Junior Board of Historic Richmond	Morgan Stanley	For the rest of the entries in this table, Historic Richmond Foundation, 4 E. Main Street, Suite 1-C, Richmond, VA 23219
74	Danielle Worthing	Quoit Club Chair Junior Board of Historic Richmond	Dutton & Associates
75	Madeleine Bennett	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
76	Buffy Bickford	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
77	Laura Bland	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
78	Susie Bogese	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
79	Betsy Booth	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
80	MacKay Boyer	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
81	Debbie Brooks	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
82	Lisa Caperton	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
83	Betsy Coffield	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
84	Kim Condyles	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
85	Christine Corbin	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
86	Stacie Cornett	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
87	Susan Dameron	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
88	Joan Debiasi	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
89	Jennifer Fergusson	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
90	Barbara Flatin	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
91	Deborah Fulk	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
92	Sara Garza	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
93	Page George	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
94	Mary Anne Griffin	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
95	Jeanine Hinson	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
96	Victoria Hoskins	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
97	Patricia Hunter	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
98	Sarah Hurst	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
99	Eucharia Jackson	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
100	Lally Jennings	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
101	Molly Johnson	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
102	Maureen Leipertz	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
103	Beth Ludden	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
104	Sheila Macfarlane	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
105	Mary Beth Metcalf	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
106	Carol McKnight	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
107	Katherine Meyers	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
108	Cheryl Miller	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
109	Joni Moncure	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
110	Victoria Morahan	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
111	Maryann Moulton	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
112	Darcie Nelsen	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
113	Shirley Parker	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
114	Trudy Porter	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
115	Cara Rogers	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
116	Debbie Scott	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
117	Stacy Smith	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
118	Kerry Svoboda	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
119	Allison Woodward	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
120	Lucie Yudkin	Active Members Council of Historic Richmond
121	Margaret Bacigal	Sustaining Member Council of Historic Richmond
122	Karen Berkness	Sustaining Member Council of Historic Richmond
123	Anne Boeve	Sustaining Member Council of Historic Richmond
124	Pat Campbell	Sustaining Member Council of Historic Richmond
125	Janis Carrell	Sustaining Member Council of Historic Richmond
126	Joan Clement	Sustaining Member Council of Historic Richmond
127	Anne Dawson	Sustaining Member Council of Historic Richmond
128	Kathy DeLoyht	Sustaining Member Council of Historic Richmond
129	Cheryl Fockler	Sustaining Member Council of Historic Richmond
130	Deb Galeski	Sustaining Member Council of Historic Richmond
131	Debbie Gibbs	Sustaining Member Council of Historic Richmond
132	Susan Gibson	Sustaining Member Council of Historic Richmond
133	Ann McLean	Sustaining Member Council of Historic Richmond
134	Libby Marth	Sustaining Member Council of Historic Richmond
135	Anita Purcell	Sustaining Member Council of Historic Richmond
136	Martha Rhodes	Sustaining Member Council of Historic Richmond
137	Mary Roach	Sustaining Member Council of Historic Richmond
138	Gaye Steinmetz	Sustaining Member Council of Historic Richmond
139	Dee Dee Sutton	Sustaining Member Council of Historic Richmond
140	Lizzie Wallace	Sustaining Member Council of Historic Richmond
141	Del Warthen	Sustaining Member Council of Historic Richmond
142	Cabell West	Sustaining Member Council of Historic Richmond
143	Mary Wick	Sustaining Member Council of Historic Richmond
144	Sarah Matheson	Development Assistant Historic Richmond Foundation	Historic Richmond Foundation
145	Sally Mooney	Development Assistant Historic Richmond Foundation	Historic Richmond Foundation
146	Emily Davis	Director of Marketing & Communications	Historic Richmond Foundation
147	Catherine Dameron	Wedding Coordinator	Historic Richmond Foundation
148	Ceil Baxter	Office Manager	Historic Richmond Foundation

No.	Name	Title	Affiliation	Address
1	Dwight C. Jones	Mayor	City of Richmond	Mayor's Office, City of Richmond, 900 E. Broad St., Suite 201, Richmond, VA 23219
2	Charles R. Samuels	Member City Council	Member City Council	Richmond City Council, 900 E. Broad St., Suite 305 Richmond, VA 23219
3	Ellen F. Robertson	Member City Council	Member City Council	Richmond City Council, 900 E. Broad St., Suite 305 Richmond, VA 23219
4	Jonathan T. Balilies	Member City Council	Member City Council	Richmond City Council, 900 E. Broad St., Suite 305 Richmond, VA 23219
5	Chris A. Hilbert	Member City Council	Member City Council	Richmond City Council, 900 E. Broad St., Suite 305 Richmond, VA 23219
6	Kathy C. Graziano	Member City Council	Member City Council	Richmond City Council, 900 E. Broad St., Suite 305 Richmond, VA 23219
7	Parker C. Agelasto	Member City Council	Member City Council	Richmond City Council, 900 E. Broad St., Suite 305 Richmond, VA 23219
8	Cynthia I. Newbille	Member City Council	Member City Council	Richmond City Council, 900 E. Broad St., Suite 305 Richmond, VA 23219
9	Reva M. Trammell	Member City Council	Member City Council	Richmond City Council, 900 E. Broad St., Suite 305 Richmond, VA 23219
10	Michelle R. Mosby	Member City Council	Member City Council	Richmond City Council, 900 E. Broad St., Suite 305 Richmond, VA 23219
11	Terry McAuliffe	Governor	Virginia	P.O. Box 1475, Richmond, VA 23218

No.	Name	Title	Affiliation	Address
1	Thomas F. Farrell	Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer	Dominion Resources Inc.	120 Tredegar St., Richmond, VA 23219
2	Afton & Melissa Johnson	Owners	West View Companies	P.O. Box 21, Oilville, VA 23129
3		Will address to "Director"	Universal Leaf Foundation	P.O. Box 25099, Richmond, VA 23260
4		Will address to "Director"	Bon Secours Health System	1505 Marriotsville Rd., Marriotsville, MD 21104
5	Luca Paschina	Winemaker	Barboursville Vineyards	P.O. Box 136, Barboursville, VA 22923
6	Alex Wotring, Vince Riggi, Brian Marks	Founders	Belle Isle Craft Spirits	615 Maury St., Richmond, VA 23224
7	Louis R. Rogers	President and CEO	Capital Square Holdings	10900 Nuckols Rd., Suite 200, Glen Allen, VA 23060
8	Mitch Haddon	President and CEO	ColonialWebb	2820 Ackley Ave., Richmond, VA 23228
9	Martin J. Barrington	Chairman & CEO	Altria Group Inc.	6601 West Broad St., Richmond, VA 23230
10	H. Randolph Holmes Jr.	Senior Principle & President	Glave' & Holmes Architecture	2101 East Main St., Richmond, VA 23223
11	Eric McKay & Patrick Murtaugh	Founders	Hardywood Park Craft Brewery	2408 Ownby Lane, Richmond, VA 23220
12	Joe Sparatta, Emilia Sparatta, Matthias Hagglund	Co-owners	Heritage	1627 W. Main St., Richmond, VA 23220
13	Matt Brophy, Kristi Croxton, Jonathan Staples	Partners	James River Distillery	2700 Hardy St., Richmond, VA 23220
14	Robert E. Moritz	US Chairman and Senior Partner	Pricewaterhousecooper LLP	300 Madison Ave., 24th Floor, New York, NY 10017
15	Dr. R.P. Sowers	Founder and Chairman	Patient First Corp.	5000 Cox Rd., Suite 100, Glen Allen, VA 23060
16	Craig R. Smith	Executive Chairman of the Board	Owens & Minor, Inc.	9120 Lockwood Blvd., Mechanicsville, VA 23116
17	John Mason L. Antrim	President & CEO	Middleburg Trust	111 West Washington St., Middleburg, VA 20117
18	Albert R. Counselman	Chairman & CEO	RCM&D	4200 Innstake Dr., Suite 303, Glen Allen, VA 23060
19	Michael Sparks		Michael Sparks Design	205 Hull St., Richmond, VA 23224
20	George Keith Martin	Managing Partner	McGuireWoods	One James Center, 901 East Clay St., Richmond, VA 23219
21	Michael L. Hern	President and CEO	LeClairRyan	Riverfront Plaza, East Tower, 951 East Byrd St., Eighth Floor, Richmond, VA 23219
22	John S. West	Managing Partner	Troutman Sanders	Troutman Sanders Bldg., 1001 Haxall Point, Richmond, VA 23219
23	G. William Beale	CEO	Union First Market	Union Market Bank, 1051 East Cary St., Suite 1200, Richmond, VA 23219