Lewis Ginter: Richmond's Gilded Age Icon

by Brian Burns and Brian Burns

Book Overview

As a war hero, philanthropist and entrepreneur, Lewis Ginter was many things to Richmond. Performing integral missions for "Stonewall"? Jackson and Robert E. Lee, Ginter was commended for gallantry on the battlefield and became affectionately known as the "Fighting Commissary."? After the war, Ginter was the first major marketer of the hand-rolled cigarette in America. He developed one of America's first streetcar suburbs and built the magnificent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 160949380X
• ISBN13: 9781609493806
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"