Thomas Worsley Collection Finding Aid MS020

Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library

717 Queen Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
Business Number: 703-746-1791
lhsc@alexlibraryva.org
URL: http://alexlibraryva.org/lhsc

Repository

Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library

Identification

MS020

Title

Thomas Worsley Collection (MS020) 1978-1994

URL:

https://alexlibraryva.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/resources/15

Quantity

2 Cubic Feet, 7 boxes, 230 cassette tapes, audio cassette tapes

Creator

Worsley, Thomas B. (Thomas Blanchard), 1911-2009

Language

English .

Subjects and Indexing Terms

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
Virginia -- History -- Alexandria
Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Collection consists entirely of audio cassettes and may not be accessible due to limited audio cassette players at Alexandria Library. Offsite digital preservation may be required.

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

Bradford, James C.
Harper, Jarvis M., Col. (Jarvis Maynard), 1907-1997
Worsley, Thomas B. (Thomas Blanchard), 1911-2009

Significant Places Associated With the Collection

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
Virginia -- History -- Alexandria
Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Container List

American Revolution Lectures

1980-1994English.

Audio box: 1 object: 1
Not Worth a Continental - Inflation During the American Revolution.
Worsley, Thomas B. (Thomas Blanchard), 1911-2009
1 Cassettes
1980-02-06English.
Audio box: 1 object: 2
John Paul Jones - An Illustrated Biography
Bradford, James C.
1 Cassettes
1980-04-02English.
Audio box: 1 object: 3
Bunker Hill and New Orleans - Similarities
Harper, Jarvis M., Col. (Jarvis Maynard), 1907-1997
1 Cassettes
1980-05-07English.
Audio box: 1 object: 4
The role of Women in the revolution

2 Cassettes
1980-10-01English.
Audio box: 1 object: 5
Patrick Henry

1 Cassettes
1981-01-07English.
Audio box: 1 object: 6
Aaron Burr - Rascal of the Revolution

1 Cassettes
1981-04-14English.
Audio box: 1 object: 7
Yorktown: A Naval Victory of Note

1 Cassettes
1981-09-02English.
Audio box: 1 object: 8
Yorktown - Land Campaign: March, Siege, Victory

1 Cassettes
1981-10-07English.
Audio box: 1 object: 9
Continentals and Les Troops de la Terre

1 Cassettes
1981-11-04English.
Audio box: 1 object: 10
Lafayette

1 Cassettes
1981-12-03English.
Audio box: 1 object: 11
Yorktown: Meditation on Victory and Defeat

1 Cassettes
1981English.
Audio box: 1 object: 12
Martial Music of Yorktown, the Music of Turkey Farm Orchestra

1 Cassettes
1981English.
Audio box: 1 object: 13
The Swamp Fox

1 Cassettes
1982-01-06English.
Audio box: 1 object: 14
George Washington - Citizen Soldier

1 Cassettes
1982-02-03English.
Audio box: 1 object: 15
Charles Carroll of Carrollton - Conservative Revolutionary

1 Cassettes
1982-03-03English.
Audio box: 1 object: 16
The American Revolution from the Viewpoint of Virginia

1 Cassettes
1982-04-07English.
Audio box: 1 object: 17
Jefferson and the American Revolution

1 Cassettes
1982-05-05English.
Audio box: 1 object: 18
Washington at Newburgh

1 Cassettes
1982-09-08English.
Audio box: 1 object: 19
Yorktown 201 Years Ago - Or How to Re-enact etc.

1 Cassettes
1982-10-06English.
Audio box: 1 object: 20
The Big Redhead: George Rogers Clark

1 Cassettes
1982-11-03English.
Audio box: 1 object: 21
The Dutch Alliance, 1782-1982

1 Cassettes
1982-12-01English.
Audio box: 1 object: 22
The British in the American Revolution

1 Cassettes
1983-01-05English.
Audio box: 1 object: 23
Lord Dunmore's Emancipation Proclamation

1 Cassettes
1983-02-02English.
Audio box: 1 object: 24
The Battle of Guilford Courthouse

1 Cassettes
1983-03-02English.
Audio box: 1 object: 25
Perspectives of a Gentleman from Alexandria, VA. on April 6,1783

1 Cassettes
1983-04-06English.
Audio box: 1 object: 26
Society of the Cincinnati

1 Cassettes
1983-05-04English.
Audio box: 1 object: 27
Miracle in Paris - Treaty of 1783

1 Cassettes
1983-09-07English.
Audio box: 1 object: 28
Microcosm of the Revolution: Continental Gunboat Philadelphia

1 Cassettes
1983-10-03English.
Audio box: 1 object: 29
Braddock's Campaign - The Potomac Route to the West

1 Cassettes
1983-11-02English.
Audio box: 1 object: 30
Robert Fulton - Pioneer of Undersea Warfare

1 Cassettes
1983-12-07English.
Audio box: 1 object: 31
State navies in the American Revolution

1 Cassettes
1984-01-04English.
Audio box: 1 object: 32
Fight for a Fourteenth State - Rebels Invade Canada. 1775-1776

1 Cassettes
1984-02-01English.
Audio box: 1 object: 33
Benedict Arnold

1 Cassettes
1984-03-07English.
Audio box: 2 object: 34
Support Personnel - Women with Gen. Braddock's Army

1 Cassettes
1984-03-07English.
Audio box: 2 object: 35
War of 1812 - Chesapeake Bay

1 Cassettes
1984-05-02English.
Audio box: 2 object: 36
The Battle of Bennington

1 Cassettes
1984-09-05English.
Audio box: 2 object: 37
The First Virginia Regiment

1 Cassettes
1984-10-03English.
Audio box: 2 object: 38
The British 64th Regiment of Foot

1 Cassettes
1984-11-07English.
Audio box: 2 object: 39
Military Operations in Pennsylvania

1 Cassettes
1984-12-05English.
Audio box: 2 object: 40
Canadians in the Continental Army

1 Cassettes
1985-02-06English.
Audio box: 2 object: 41
Flora MacDonald and the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge

1 Cassettes
1985-03-06English.
Audio box: 2 object: 42
George Mason: The Man and His Contributions

1 Cassettes
1985-04-03English.
Audio box: 2 object: 43
The Revolution Moves to Charlottesville - And So Do We

1 Cassettes
1985-05-01English.
Audio box: 2 object: 44
Was the Continental Navy a Mistake?

1 Cassettes
1985-09-04English.
Audio box: 2 object: 45
The Brunswickers

1 Cassettes
1985-10-02English.
Audio box: 2 object: 46
Rochambeau and L' Expedition Particuliere

1 Cassettes
1985-11-06English.
Audio box: 2 object: 47
Prelude to the Constitution

1 Cassettes
1985-12-04English.
Audio box: 2 object: 48
George Washington's Papers

1 Cassettes
1986-01-08English.
Audio box: 2 object: 49
The Commissary General of the Military Stores Dept.

1 Cassettes
1986-02-05English.
Audio box: 2 object: 50
The Role of Colonial Agents in the Era of the Revolution

1 Cassettes
1986-03-05English.
Audio box: 2 object: 51
Our First Lady, Martha Washington

1 Cassettes
1986-04-02English.
Audio box: 2 object: 52
Shay's Rebellion

1 Cassettes
1986-09-03English.
Audio box: 2 object: 53
Nathanael Greene

1 Cassettes
1986-10-01English.
Audio box: 2 object: 54
Naval War in the Caribbean

1 Cassettes
1986-11-05English.
Audio box: 2 object: 55
The Continental Marines

1 Cassettes
1986-12-03English.
Audio box: 2 object: 56
The Fairfax Family

1 Cassettes
1987-01-07English.
Audio box: 2 object: 57
Banastre Tarleton

1 Cassettes
1987-02-04English.
Audio box: 2 object: 58
The Northwest Frontier

1 Cassettes
1987-03-04English.
Audio box: 2 object: 59
French Naval Operations, 1778

1 Cassettes
1987-04-01English.
Audio box: 2 object: 60
Seahorse Expedition: The British Raid on Alexandria,1814

1 Cassettes
1987-05-06English.
Audio box: 2 object: 61
Captain John Posey

1 Cassettes
1987-09-02English.
Audio box: 2 object: 62
A Few Good Men: George Washington and the beginnings of the

1 Cassettes
1987-10-07English.
Audio box: 2 object: 63
Essek Hopkins: The Navy's First Commodore

1 Cassettes
1987-11-04English.
Audio box: 2 object: 64
Alexandrians Present at the Creation of the Constitution

1 Cassettes
1987-11-28English.
Audio box: 2 object: 65
Joshua Barney and the Two Wars of American Independence

1 Cassettes
1987-12-02English.
Audio box: 2 object: 66
Popular Music in Colonial Times and the Revolution

1 Cassettes
1988-01-06English.
Audio box: 2 object: 67
Wharves of Colonial America

1 Cassettes
1988-02-03English.
Audio box: 2 object: 68
Spain in the American Revolution

1 Cassettes
1988-03-02English.
Audio box: 3 object: 69
Adrienne, the Marquise de La Fayette

1 Cassettes
1988-04-06English.
Audio box: 3 object: 70
Carlisle During the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods

1 Cassettes
1988-05-04English.
Audio box: 3 object: 71
The battle of the Titans: Virginia's Ratification of the Federal Constitution

1 Cassettes
1988-09-07English.
Audio box: 3 object: 72
Benedict Arnold's Career as a British Officer

1 Cassettes
1988-10-05English.
Audio box: 3 object: 73
American Revolutionary Pension Legislation

1 Cassettes
1988-11-02English.
Audio box: 3 object: 74
The Battle of Hubbardton

1 Cassettes
1988-12-07English.
Audio box: 3 object: 75
L'Expedition Particuliere, Part II

1 Cassettes
1989-01-04English.
Audio box: 3 object: 76
Wooden Teeth, Etc. - Archeology at Mount Vernon

1 Cassettes
1989-02-01English.
Audio box: 3 object: 77
The Battle of King's Mountain

1 Cassettes
1989-03-01English.
Audio box: 3 object: 78
Sea Control: Key to Victory at Yorktown

1 Cassettes
1989-05-03English.
Audio box: 3 object: 79
The American Revolution as a World War

1 Cassettes
1989-09-06English.
Audio box: 3 object: 80
The French North American Naval Campaign of 1778

1 Cassettes
1989-10-04English.
Audio box: 3 object: 81
Chaplains in the Armies of the American Revolution

1 Cassettes
1989-11-01English.
Audio box: 3 object: 82
Not Worth a Continental - How Inflation sapped America's Revolutionary

1 Cassettes
1989-12-06English.
Audio box: 3 object: 83
The Basic Training of George Washington

1 Cassettes
1990-02-07English.
Audio box: 3 object: 84
Why the British Burned Washington

1 Cassettes
1990-03-07English.
Audio box: 3 object: 85
Patriots in Petticoats

1 Cassettes
1990-04-04English.
Audio box: 3 object: 86
Turtle Shell, Etc.: The Chesapeake Flotilla

1 Cassettes
1990-05-02English.
Audio box: 3 object: 87
Prologue to Revolution: The Stamp act Crisis, 1764 -1766

1 Cassettes
1990-09-05English.
Audio box: 3 object: 88
Rebels Before Their Time: The North Carolina Regulator Movement

1 Cassettes
1990-10-03English.
Audio box: 3 object: 89
General Nathanael Greene

1 Cassettes
1990-11-07English.
Audio box: 3 object: 90
Interpreting the Revolutionary War in South Carolina

1 Cassettes
1990-12-05English.
Audio box: 3 object: 91
The Trenton-Princeton Campaign

1 Cassettes
1991-02-06English.
Audio box: 3 object: 92
Origin of the U.S. Navy's Mediterranean Squadron, 1783-1816

1 Cassettes
1991-03-06English.
Audio box: 3 object: 93
Major Lawrence Washington vs. Rev. Charles Greene

1 Cassettes
1991-04-03English.
Audio box: 3 object: 94
The Campaign For a Capitol: Alexandria's Struggle For the Prize

1 Cassettes
1991-04-24English.
Audio box: 3 object: 95
Drums Along the Mohawk - The Battle of Oriskany

1 Cassettes
191-05-01English.
Audio box: 3 object: 96
The First Freedom: Religion and the Bill of Rights

1 Cassettes
1991-09-04English.
Audio box: 3 object: 97
Cruise of Continental Navy Frigates, 1777

1 Cassettes
1991-10-02English.
Audio box: 3 object: 98
The Militant Dr. Franklin

1 Cassettes
1991-11-06English.
Audio box: 3 object: 99
Sister Republics: Switzerland and the U.S.

1 Cassettes
1991-12-04English.
Audio box: 3 object: 100
The Humor of George Washington

1 Cassettes
1992-01-08English.
Audio box: 3 object: 101
The Exploits of Captain Lambert Wickes, Continental Navy

1 Cassettes
1992-02-05English.
Audio box: 3 object: 102
Some Not-So-Good Commanders in the American Revolution

1 Cassettes
1992-03-04English.
Audio box: 3 object: 103
The Second Continental Congress

1 Cassettes
1992-04-01English.
Audio box: 3 object: 104
The Battle of the Brandywine

1 Cassettes
1992-05-06English.
Audio box: 4 object: 105
The Korean, Vietnam and American Revolutionary Wars Compared

1 Cassettes
1992-09-02English.
Audio box: 4 object: 106
Royal Navy Dockyard at Portsmouth is in Flames

1 Cassettes
1992-10-07English.
Audio box: 4 object: 107
Loyalists in the Southern campaign

1 Cassettes
1992-11-04English.
Audio box: 4 object: 108
Billingsport: Washington Never Slept There

1 Cassettes
1992-12-02English.
Audio box: 4 object: 109
Role and Rule of law in the American Revolution

1 Cassettes
1993-02-03English.
Audio box: 4 object: 110
Who Were the Colonial Americans?

1 Cassettes
1993-03-03English.
Audio box: 4 object: 111
The Role of Thomas Jefferson in the Revolutionary War

1 Cassettes
1993-04-07English.
Audio box: 4 object: 112
The Delaware river campaign

1 Cassettes
1993-05-05English.
Audio box: 4 object: 113A
Jefferson Legacies

1 Cassettes
1994-09-08English.
Audio box: 4 object: 113B
Thomas Jefferson, Friend of Alexandria

1 Cassettes
1993-10-27English.

Civil War Lectures

1978-1994English.

Audio box: 4 object: 114
Lew Wallace

1 Cassettes
1978-02-14English.
Audio box: 5 object: 145
Heritage of Robert E. Lee

1 Cassettes
1983-02-17English.
Audio box: 5 object: 146
Prelude to Gettysburg

1 Cassettes
1983-03-08English.
Audio box: 5 object: 147
How Does it Look Now?

1 Cassettes
1983-04-12English.
Audio box: 5 object: 148
After Vicksburg, What of Mobile?

1 Cassettes
1983-09-13English.
Audio box: 5 object: 149
A Look at John Bell Hood

1 Cassettes
1983-11-08English.
Audio box: 5 object: 150
Grant and Lee at Petersburg

1 Cassettes
1983-12-13English.
Audio box: 5 object: 151
It Happened at Willard's

1 Cassettes
1984-01-10English.
Audio box: 5 object: 152
Mary Todd Lincoln Declared Insane

1 Cassettes
1984-02-14English.
Audio box: 5 object: 153
Phil Sheridan: A Character Sketch

1 Cassettes
1984-03-13English.
Audio box: 5 object: 154
John Brown

1 Cassettes
1984-04-10English.
Audio box: 5 object: 155
How Lee Defeated the Confederacy

1 Cassettes
1984-05-08English.
Audio box: 5 object: 156
William Walker's Mutiny

1 Cassettes
1984-09-11English.
Audio box: 5 object: 157
The Battle of Mobile Bay

1 Cassettes
1984-10-09English.
Audio box: 5 object: 158
Second Manassas

1 Cassettes
1984-11-13English.
Audio box: 5 object: 159
Railroads in the Civil War

1 Cassettes
1984-12-11English.
Audio box: 5 object: 160
Federal Manpower The First Three Years of the War

1 Cassettes
1985-01-08English.
Audio box: 5 object: 161
The Red River Campaign of 1864

1 Cassettes
1985-02-12English.
Audio box: 5 object: 162
Garibaldi and the American Civil War

1 Cassettes
1985-03-12English.
Audio box: 5 object: 163
The Military History of Nathan Bedford Forrest

1 Cassettes
1985-04-09English.
Audio box: 5 object: 164
Confederate Generals -- The Humorous and the Heroic

1 Cassettes
1985-05-14English.
Audio box: 5 object: 165
General Rufus Saxton

1 Cassettes
1985-09-10English.
Audio box: 5 object: 166
Three Hoosiers Who Survived

1 Cassettes
1985-10-08English.
Audio box: 5 object: 167
U.S. Grant

1 Cassettes
1985-11-12English.
Audio box: 5 object: 168
Wartime Washington -- Social, Economic, Political

1 Cassettes
1985-12-10English.
Audio box: 5 object: 169
The Inspector General Dept. In the Civil War

1 Cassettes
1986-01-14English.
Audio box: 5 object: 170
An Illustrated Tour of Mr. Lincoln's City

1 Cassettes
1986-02-11English.
Audio box: 5 object: 171
Sequel to Forts Henry and Donelson

1 Cassettes
1986-03-11English.
Audio box: 5 object: 172
A Union Regiment's Pursuit of Reenlistment Furlough

1 Cassettes
1986-09-09English.
Audio box: 5 object: 173
Mallory, Secretary of the Navy of the Confederacy

1 Cassettes
1986-10-07English.
Audio box: 6 object: 174
The Nashville Campaign of 1864

1 Cassettes
1986-11-12English.
Audio box: 6 object: 175
The Civil War: The View From the National Archives

1 Cassettes
1986-12-08English.
Audio box: 6 object: 176
Guerilla Activities in Northern Virginia

1 Cassettes
1987-01-13English.
Audio box: 6 object: 177
The Vicksburg Campaign

1 Cassettes
1987-02-10English.
Audio box: 6 object: 178
The U.S. Navy and the Civil War

1 Cassettes
1987-03-10English.
Audio box: 6 object: 179
Rifle Fire in the Civil War

1 Cassettes
1987-04-04English.
Audio box: 6 object: 180
Grant: The Man and the Image

1 Cassettes
1987-05-12English.
Audio box: 6 object: 181
Gen. Benjamin Butler's Naval Brigade

1 Cassettes
1987-09-08English.
Audio box: 6 object: 182
Chancelorsville, May 1-5, 1863

1 Cassettes
1987-10-13English.
Audio box: 6 object: 183
Was Venus a Confederate?

1 Cassettes
1987-11-10English.
Audio box: 6 object: 184
James B. McPherson and the Ideals of the Old American Army

1 Cassettes
1988-01-12English.
Audio box: 6 object: 185
Fort Donelson Revisited

1 Cassettes
1988-02-09English.
Audio box: 6 object: 186
The Bristoe Station Campaign

1 Cassettes
1988-03-08English.
Audio box: 6 object: 187
Grant As Commander

1 Cassettes
1988-04-12English.
Audio box: 6 object: 188
Confederate Uniforms at Gettysburg

1 Cassettes
1988-05-10English.
Audio box: 6 object: 189
The Chaplain and the General

1 Cassettes
1988-09-13English.
Audio box: 6 object: 190
Grant Gives Lee the Slip

1 Cassettes
1988-10-10English.
Audio box: 6 object: 191
Come Retribution: The Confederate Secret Service

1 Cassettes
1988-11-08English.
Audio box: 6 object: 192
Music of the Confederacy Revisited

1 Cassettes
1988-12-13English.
Audio box: 6 object: 193
The Army of Tennessee vs. The Army of Northern Virginia

1 Cassettes
1989-01-10English.
Audio box: 6 object: 194
General Joseph E. Johnston

1 Cassettes
1989-02English.
Audio box: 6 object: 195
Champion Hill--Key to Vicksburg

1 Cassettes
1989-03-17English.
Audio box: 6 object: 196
Religion in the Civil War

1 Cassettes
1989-04-11English.
Audio box: 6 object: 197
First Manassas: A New and Different Perspective

1 Cassettes
1989-05-09English.
Audio box: 6 object: 198
The Preacher and the Emancipation Proclamation

1 Cassettes
1989-09-12English.
Audio box: 6 object: 199
Why Did the South Lose the Civil War?

1 Cassettes
1989-10-20English.
Audio box: 6 object: 200
Judah P. Benjamin Revisited

1 Cassettes
1989-11-14English.
Audio box: 6 object: 201
The Lady in the Veil

1 Cassettes
1990-01-09English.
Audio box: 6 object: 202
Rewriting the War of 1863

1 Cassettes
1990-02-13English.
Audio box: 6 object: 203
West Point During the Civil War

1 Cassettes
1990-09-08English.
Audio box: 6 object: 204
Blacks, Women and Hispanics in the Confederacy

1 Cassettes
1990-10-09English.
Audio box: 6 object: 205
The Battle of Brandy Station

1 Cassettes
1990-11-13English.
Audio box: 6 object: 206
Franklin and Nashville - The Middle Tennessee Campaign, 1864

1 Cassettes
1990-12-11English.
Audio box: 6 object: 207
Camp Curtin - 'Boot Camp' of the union Army

1 Cassettes
1991-01English.
Audio box: 6 object: 208
Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties

1 Cassettes
1991-02-12English.
Audio box: 6 object: 209
Second Manassas: A New Look

1 Cassettes
1991-03-12English.
Audio box: 6 object: 210
Civil War Music

1 Cassettes
1991-03-15English.
Audio box: 7 object: 211
XI Corps on the First Day of the Battle of Gettysburg

1 Cassettes
1991-04-09English.
Audio box: 7 object: 212
Blockade Running During the Civil War

1 Cassettes
1991-05-14English.
Audio box: 7 object: 213
The Chicago Mercantile Battery

1 Cassettes
1991-09-10English.
Audio box: 7 object: 214
Does Death on the Battlefield Make a General Great?

1 Cassettes
1991-10-02English.
Audio box: 7 object: 215
Confederate Florida

1 Cassettes
1991-11-12English.
Audio box: 7 object: 216
Old Jube and Uncle Phil

1 Cassettes
1991-12-10English.
Audio box: 7 object: 217
The Lincoln Assassination: A New Perspective

1 Cassettes
1992-02-11English.
Audio box: 7 object: 218
The Five Forks Campaign, March 29 to April 1, 1865

1 Cassettes
1992-03-10English.
Audio box: 7 object: 219
The Bermuda Hundred Campaign

1 Cassettes
1992-04-14English.
Audio box: 7 object: 220
Why the Civil War Still Lives

1 Cassettes
1992-05-12English.
Audio box: 7 object: 221
Mosby- An Overview of the Gray Ghost

1 Cassettes
1992-06-09English.
Audio box: 7 object: 222
Glorietta Pass- Antietam of the West

1 Cassettes
1992-09-08English.
Audio box: 7 object: 223
Battle of Franklin - Who Speaks for the Dead?

1 Cassettes
1992-11-10English.
Audio box: 7 object: 224
Mosby vs. Sheridan in the Shenandoah

1 Cassettes
1992-12-08English.
Audio box: 7 object: 225
The Monocacy

1 Cassettes
1993-02-09English.
Audio box: 7 object: 226
Stonewall Jackson's Failed Protégés

1 Cassettes
1993-03-09English.
Audio box: 7 object: 227
Considering Lee Considered

1 Cassettes
1993-05-11English.
Audio box: 7 object: 228
The Road to Disunion - The Slavery Issue, 1776-1865

1 Cassettes
1993English.
Audio box: 7 object: 229
Columbus On the Chattahoochee - Homefront and Battlefront, 1861-1865

1 Cassettes
1993English.
Audio box: 7 object: 230A
Civil War Inflation and its Impact on the Outcome

1 Cassettes
1993English.
Audio box: 7 object: 230B
The Two Money Bags: Chase and Memminger

1 Cassettes
1993English.