Format:
1 online resource (257 pages)
ISBN:
9780813171715
Series Statement:
Virginia at War Ser
Content:
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-known state navy, as well as the impact that secession and the first year of the war had on Virginia's black community, both slave and free. Virginia was the only Confederate state to suffer an internal secession, and the story of that "other Virginia" that broke away and became West Virginia is explored in all its bizarre complexity. Virginia at War, 1861 is the first in a new five-volume series, edited by William C. Davis and James I. Robertson Jr. for the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech. Each volume will bring together leading Civil War historians to study one year of the Civil War in Virginia.
Content:
Front cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- The Virginia State Convention of 1861 -- Land Operations in Virginia in 1861 -- Confederate Soldiers in Virginia, 1861 -- A Navy Department, Hitherto Unknown to Our State Organization" -- Afro-Virginians' Attitudes on Secession and Civil War, 1861 -- Richmond Becomes the Capital -- The Shenandoah Valley of Virginia -- The Tarnished Thirty-fifth Star -- Diary of a Southern Refugee during the War, 1861 -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813123721
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780813123721
Language:
English
