Civil War Weather in Virginia
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University Alabama Press; University of Alabama Press
Published: July 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780817315771
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Battles & campaigns; Civil war; History; History - U.S; History: American; Virginia; United States - State & Local - General; History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877); Reference; United States - Civil War; 19th century; Civil War, 1861-1865; Meteorology; Richmond; Richmond (Va.); Sources; Washington (D.C.)
Description: "This work fills a gap in our available knowledge in a fundamental area of Civil War studies, that of basic quotidian information on the weather in the theater of operations in the vicinity of Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Virginia. Krick adds to the daily records kept by amateur meteorologists in these two locations. Anecdotal descriptions of weather found in contemporary soldiers' diaries and correspondence combines these scattered records into a chronology of weather information that also includes daybreak and sunset times for each day. The information in Civil War Weather in Virginia is indispensable for students of the Civil War in the vital northern Virginia/Maryland theater of operations."--book jacket.