Crucible of the Civil War
Subtitle: Virginia from secession to commemoration
By: edited by Edward L. Ayers, Gary W. Gallagher, and Andrew J. Torget.
Contributors: Ayers, Edward L., 1953-; Gallagher, Gary W.; Torget, Andrew J., 1978-
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780813925523
Subjects: Confederate States of America -- Historiography.; Secession -- Virginia.; Group identity -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century.; Slavery -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century.; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Virginia.; Memory -- Social aspects -- Virginia.; Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.; Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.; Virginia -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History -- 19th century.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Unions of slavery : slavery, politics, and secession in the Valley of Virginia / Andrew J. Torget; title: "I owe Virginia little, my country much" : Robert E. Lee, the United States Regular Army, and unconditional unionism / Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh; title: "It is old Virginia and we must have it" : overcoming regionalism in Civil War Virginia / Aaron Sheehan-Dean; title: Defining Confederate respectability : morality, patriotism, and Confederate identity in Richmond's Civil War public press / Amy R. Minton; title: The slave market in Civil War Virginia / Jaime Amanda Martinez; title: Race, religion, and rebellion : black and white Baptists in Albemarle County, Virginia, during the Civil War / Andrew Witmer; title: "The right to love and to mourn" : the origins of Virginia's Ladies' Memorial associations, 1865-1867 / Caroline E. Janney; title: Reconciliation in Reconstruction Virginia / Susanna Michele Lee.