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Record Nr.

UNINA9910163359103321

Autore

Kucera Peter G

Titolo

Brigadier General Henry A. Wise, C. S. A. and the Western Virginia Campaign Of 1861

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waipu : , : Pickle Partners Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

9781782896333

1782896333

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (83 p.)

Disciplina

973.7

Soggetti

Military biography

Civil war

West Virginia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Title page -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER I - Wise and Antebellum Politics in Virginia -- CHAPTER II - The Strategic Importance of Western Virginia -- CHAPTER III - Wise’s Operations In the Kanawha Valley -- CHAPTER IV - Wise and Floyd in the Kanawha Valley -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY --   I. GENERAL WORKS. --   II. NEWSPAPERS --   III. GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS, UNITED STATES AND VIRGINIA --   IV. MANUSCRIPT MATERIALS --   V. THESES AND DISSERTATIONS --     A. Theses --     B. Dissertations

Sommario/riassunto

This thesis examines Brigadier General Henry A. Wise's involvement in the Western Virginia Campaign of 1861. This Confederate defeat resulted in the Federal occupation of a large, strategically important section of the Confederacy in the first year of the Civil War. The author presents the reasons for this capitulation and, against the backdrop of Wise's political career, evaluates the General's performance as a military commander. This paper discusses the personal conflict which ensued between Henry Wise and John B. Floyd in the Kanawha Valley as a reason for the Confederate failure in western Virginia. The author presents the results of this capitulation to demonstrate how Wise, a popular ex-Governor of Virginia, significantly affected the course of the



Civil War.