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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451911903321

Autore

Krick Robert K

Titolo

Civil War weather in Virginia [[electronic resource] /] / Robert K. Krick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8173-8048-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Disciplina

975.5/03

Soggetti

Meteorology - Virginia - Richmond - History - 19th century

Meteorology - Washington (D.C.) - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Richmond (Va.) History Civil War, 1861-1865 Chronology

Washington (D.C.) History Civil War, 1861-1865 Chronology

Richmond (Va.) History Civil War, 1861-1865 Sources

Washington (D.C.) History Civil War, 1861-1865 Sources

Richmond (Va.) Climate History 19th century

Washington (D.C.) Climate History 19th century

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Chronology

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-178).

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. 1860; Chapter 2. 1861; Chapter 3. 1862; Chapter 4. 1863; Chapter 5. 1864; Chapter 6. 1865; Notes

Sommario/riassunto

This work fills a tremendous gap in our available knowledge in a fundamental area of Civil War studies, that of basic quotidian information on the weather in the theater of operations in the vicinity of Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Virginia. Krick adds to the daily records kept by amateur meteorologists in these two locations. Anecdotal descriptions of weather found in contemporary soldiers' dairies and correspondence combines these scattered records into a chronology of weather information that also includes daybreak and sunset times for each day. The information in Civil War Weath