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UNINA9910825225003321 |
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Titolo |
Virginia at war, 1862 / / edited by William C. Davis and James I. Robertson, Jr., for the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Lexington, : University Press of Kentucky, c2007 |
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ISBN |
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0-8131-3763-2 |
1-283-23323-1 |
9786613233233 |
0-8131-7284-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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DavisWilliam C. <1946-> |
RobertsonJames I., Jr. <1930-2019.> (James Irvin) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Virginia History Civil War, 1861-1865 |
Virginia Politics and government 1861-1865 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Land operations in Virginia in 1862 / John S. Salmon -- Virginia's industry and the conduct of war in 1862 / Harold S. Wilson -- Virginia's civilians at war in 1862 / John G. Selby -- The trials of military occupation / Thomas P. Lowry -- Richmond, the Confederate hospital city / David J. Coles -- Virginians see their war / Harold Holzer -- Virginia's troubled interior / Brian Steel Wills -- Lee rebuilds his army / Dennis E. Frye -- Diary of a Southern refugee during the war, January-July 1862 / Judith Brockenbrough McGuire ; edited by James I. Robertson, Jr. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A History Book Club SelectionA Military History Book Club Selection Virginia emerged from the year 1861 in much the same state of uncertainty and confusion as the rest of the Confederacy. While the North was known to be rebuilding its army, no one could be sure if the northern people and government were willing to continue the war. Virginians' expectations for the coming year did not prepare them for what was about to happen, for in 1862 the war became earnest and real, and the Old Dominion became then and thereafter the major battleground of the war in the East. The landscape and the peopl |
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