Virginia at war, 1861 / / edited by William C. Davis and James I. Robertson, Jr., for the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies
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| Titolo: |
Virginia at war, 1861 / / edited by William C. Davis and James I. Robertson, Jr., for the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies
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| Pubblicazione: | Lexington, : University Press of Kentucky, c2005 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 973.7/13/09755 |
| Soggetto topico: | Secession - Virginia |
| Soggetto geografico: | Virginia History Civil War, 1861-1865 |
| Virginia Politics and government 1861-1865 | |
| Altri autori: |
DavisWilliam C. <1946->
RobertsonJames I., Jr. <1930-2019.> (James Irvin)
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| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Virginia at war, 1861 |
| ISBN: | 0-8131-3762-4 |
| 1-283-23282-0 | |
| 9786613232823 | |
| 0-8131-7171-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910824850203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Virginia at war series.