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He was born on August 13, 1828 in Buckingham County, Virginia, to George Bagby and Virginia Evans.
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Excerpt from Canal Reminiscences: Recollections of Travel in the Old Days on the James River and Kanawha Canal But shall we see better times? Why, yes, surely. They have begun already in Troy, N. Y., the papers say. And I verily believe the railway, which is to take the place of the canal, will do more than all things else to bring back work for all and money for all of us in our fair city of Richmond. Let us at least hope so. And with that hope in view, I trust that these reminiscences of an obsolescent mode of travel - which may have been delightful, but cer tainly was not rapid - will give a few moments of pleasure to the friends of the publishers and of the writer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from The Old Virginia Gentleman, and Other Sketches Mount Airy Bellefield Avenel Westover Slave Quarters, Upper Brandon Lucy Parke Chamberlayne 204 West Franklin Street Montrose ~the Stateliest Man of all Our Time - R. E. Lee View of Richmond in 1850 St. Paul's Church, Richmond, Virginia Slave Quarters at Tuckahoe James River Canal Terminal, Richmond An Early Handbill of Dr. Bagby's Lecture Meekins's Twinses - Original Woodcut John M. Daniel's Latch Key Edgehill School, Princeton, New Jersey, 1838' Edgehill Woodhouse Present Home of the Virginia Historical Society Virginia House, Windsor Farms, Richmond Confederate Bank Note (poem) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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He was born on August 13, 1828 in Buckingham County, Virginia, to George Bagby and Virginia Evans.
He attended Delaware College and the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied medicine.
For a short time he had an office in Lynchburg, but after the success of a series of articles in the Lynchburg Virginian he was drawn more and more into literary work, assisting James McDonald, editor of the Virginian, and soon abandoning entirely the idea of practising medicine. With George Woodville Latham he purchased the Lynchburg Express and for two or three years during the fifties kept it going in spite of poor business management. He was later a newspaper correspondent in Washington, D. C. , until 1859. In 1860 he succeeded John R. Thompson as editor of the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Bagby promptly joined the Confederate army, but his health, which was never robust, suffered from camp life and he was fortunately detailed for clerical work at headquarters, until he was discharged on account of ill-health.
He returned to the editorship of the Messenger, which he retained until January 1864, but he was busy chiefly as a correspondent for papers throughout the South. His vivid pen gave a truthful picture of the Southern capital.
After the close of the war, he went to New York as a journalist, but the weakness of his eyes forced him to return to Virginia and undertake a career as a popular lecturer. He had tried himself out some years before with his lecture, "An Apology for Fools. " His success in Virginia in 1865-66 with a new humorous lecture, "Bacon and Greens, " was immediate; and later "Women Folks" and "The Disease Called Love" were equally popular. When in 1867 he became part owner of the Native Virginian, which he edited at Orange, he continued his lectures.
Three years later his friend James McDonald secured his appointment as custodian of the State Library and he held the position for three administrations. Meantime, besides contributing articles to magazines and newspapers, he traveled through Virginia giving his most famous lectures, "The Old Virginia Gentleman" and "The Virginia Negro" His John M. Daniels' Latch Key (1868), published in Lynchburg, and Canal Reminiscences (1879), a pamphlet published in Richmond, were characteristic sketches of Virginia just after the Civil War.
He had never published a collection of his writings, but in a rural state, although lectures were usually free and money painfully lacking, he could always be sure of an audience. He died in Richmond, Virginia November 29, 1883.
Soon after his death, his widow prepared one volume of Selections from the Miscellaneous Writings of Dr. George W. Bagby (1884), with a sketch of Bagby by Edward S. Gregory; a second volume followed the next year; both were privately printed in limited edition.
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His humor was homely and fresh but never subtle. His serious writing was often sentimental but always vivacious and nervously alive, and sometimes full of tender power and beauty.
He married in 1863 Lucy Parke Chamberlayne of Richmond by whom he had ten children.