Virginia at War, 1861 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813123720 ISBN 13: 9780813123721

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky, 2005

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

William C. Davis is a professor of history at Virginia Tech.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813123720
• ISBN 13: 9780813123721
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Davis William C., Robertson James I.