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Civil War Virginia
Author | : James I. Robertson |
Publsiher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1993-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813914574 |
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This guide includes the 26 major battlefields in Virginia as well as some of the smaller skirmishes.
Virginia s Civil War
Author | : Peter Wallenstein,Bertram Wyatt-Brown |
Publsiher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813923158 |
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What did the Civil War mean to Virginia-and what did Virginia mean to the Civil War?
Crucible of the Civil War
Author | : Edward L. Ayers,Gary W. Gallagher,Andrew J. Torget |
Publsiher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2008-12-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813930497 |
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Crucible of the Civil War offers an illuminating portrait of the state’s wartime economic, political, and social institutions. Weighing in on contentious issues within established scholarship while also breaking ground in areas long neglected by scholars, the contributors examine such concerns as the war’s effect on slavery in the state, the wartime intersection of race and religion, and the development of Confederate social networks. They also shed light on topics long disputed by historians, such as Virginia’s decision to secede from the Union, the development of Confederate nationalism, and how Virginians chose to remember the war after its close.
Ends of War
Author | : Caroline E. Janney |
Publsiher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2021-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781469663388 |
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The Army of Northern Virginia's chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed west at a relentless pace for nearly a week, thousands of wounded and exhausted men fell out of the ranks. When word spread that Lee planned to surrender, most remaining troops stacked their arms and accepted paroles allowing them to return home, even as they lamented the loss of their country and cause. But others broke south and west, hoping to continue the fight. Fearing a guerrilla war, Grant extended the generous Appomattox terms to every rebel who would surrender himself. Provost marshals fanned out across Virginia and beyond, seeking nearly 18,000 of Lee's men who had yet to surrender. But the shock of Lincoln's assassination led Northern authorities to see threats of new rebellion in every rail depot and harbor where Confederates gathered for transport, even among those already paroled. While Federal troops struggled to keep order and sustain a fragile peace, their newly surrendered adversaries seethed with anger and confusion at the sight of Union troops occupying their towns and former slaves celebrating freedom. In this dramatic new history of the weeks and months after Appomattox, Caroline E. Janney reveals that Lee's surrender was less an ending than the start of an interregnum marked by military and political uncertainty, legal and logistical confusion, and continued outbursts of violence. Janney takes readers from the deliberations of government and military authorities to the ground-level experiences of common soldiers. Ultimately, what unfolds is the messy birth narrative of the Lost Cause, laying the groundwork for the defiant resilience of rebellion in the years that followed.
Why Confederates Fought
Author | : Aaron Sheehan-Dean |
Publsiher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2009-11-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807887653 |
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In the first comprehensive study of the experience of Virginia soldiers and their families in the Civil War, Aaron Sheehan-Dean captures the inner world of the rank-and-file. Utilizing new statistical evidence and first-person narratives, Sheehan-Dean explores how Virginia soldiers--even those who were nonslaveholders--adapted their vision of the war's purpose to remain committed Confederates. Sheehan-Dean challenges earlier arguments that middle- and lower-class southerners gradually withdrew their support for the Confederacy because their class interests were not being met. Instead he argues that Virginia soldiers continued to be motivated by the profound emotional connection between military service and the protection of home and family, even as the war dragged on. The experience of fighting, explains Sheehan-Dean, redefined southern manhood and family relations, established the basis for postwar race and class relations, and transformed the shape of Virginia itself. He concludes that Virginians' experience of the Civil War offers important lessons about the reasons we fight wars and the ways that those reasons can change over time.
Black Confederates and Afro Yankees in Civil War Virginia
Author | : Ervin L. Jordan |
Publsiher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813915457 |
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A study of the role of Afro-Virginians in the Civil War.
Civil War Sites in Virginia
Author | : James I. Robertson,Brian Steel Wills |
Publsiher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2011-03-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813931302 |
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Since 1982, the renowned Civil War historian James I. "Bud" Robertson’s Civil War Sites in Virginia: A Tour Guide has enlightened and informed Civil War enthusiasts and scholars alike. The book expertly explores the commonwealth’s Civil War sites for those hoping to gain greater insight and understanding of the conflict. But in the years since the book’s original publication, accessibility to many sites and the interpretive material available have improved dramatically. In addition, new historical markers have been erected, and new historically significant sites have been developed, while other sites have been lost to modern development or other encroachments. The historian Brian Steel Wills offers here a revised and updated edition that retains the core of the original guide, with its rich and insightful prose, but that takes these major changes into account, introducing especially the benefits of expanded interpretation and of improved accessibility. The guide incorporates new information on the lives of a broad spectrum of soldiers and citizens while revisiting scenes associated with the era’s most famous personalities. New maps and a list of specialized tour suggestions assist in planning visits to sites, while three dozen illustrations, from nineteenth-century drawings to modern photographs, bring the war and its impact on the Old Dominion vividly to life. With the sesquicentennial remembrances of the American Civil War heightening interest and spurring improvements, there may be no better time to learn about and visit these important and moving sites than now.
Virginia at War 1861
Author | : William Davis,James I. Robertson |
Publsiher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2005-11-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0813123720 |
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More Civil War battles were fought on Virginian soil than on that of any other Confederate state. No state suffered more from invasion and occupation than the Old Dominion, and none witnessed as much of the war. Virginia’s story of the Civil War stands unique among the Confederate States. Virginia at War, 1861 looks at Virginia on the eve of secession, detailing the activities of the convention that finally took the state out of the Union and explaining how Richmond became the capital of the new Confederate nation. Chapters in the book examine Virginia’s private state army and its little-known state navy, as well as the impact that secession and the first year of the war had on Virginia’s black community, both slave and free. Virginia was the only Confederate state to suffer an internal secession, and the story of that “other Virginia” that broke away and became West Virginia is explored in all its bizarre complexity. Virginia at War, 1861 is the first in a new five-volume series, edited by William C. Davis and James I. Robertson Jr. for the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech. Each volume will bring together leading Civil War historians to study one year of the Civil War in Virginia.