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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452259703321

Titolo

Virginia at war, 1861 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by William C. Davis and James I. Robertson, Jr., for the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, : University Press of Kentucky, c2005

ISBN

0-8131-3762-4

1-283-23282-0

9786613232823

0-8131-7171-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Virginia at war

Altri autori (Persone)

DavisWilliam C. <1946->

RobertsonJames I

Disciplina

973.7/13/09755

Soggetti

Secession - Virginia

Electronic books.

Virginia History Civil War, 1861-1865

Virginia Politics and government 1861-1865

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Virginia State Convention of 1861 / James I. Robertson , Jr. --  Land operations in Virginia in 1861 / Craig L. Symonds -- Confederate soldiers in Virginia, 1861 / Joseph T. Glatthaar -- A Navy Department, hitherto unknown to our state organization / John M. Coski --  Afro-Virginians : attitudes on secession and civil war, 1861 / Ervin L. Jordan Jr. --   Richmond becomes the capital / William C. Davis -- The Shenandoah Valley of Virginia / Michael Mahon --  The tarnished thirty-fifth star / C. Stuart McGehee -- Diary of a Southern refugee during the War, 1861 / Judith Brockenbrough McGuire.

Sommario/riassunto

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